Glasgow Film Festival announces 2022 programme
GFF returns with a programme packed with exciting new releases, combining UK premieres of some of the most hotly anticipated films from last year’s summer festival circuit to the best in new Scottish talent. Plus, an interview with the festival’s co-director and Glasgow Film CEO, Allison Gardner.
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the hazy world of 1970s Los Angeles with a nostalgic love letter to being young and in search of a purpose in life.
Don’t Look Up
Adam McKay’s catastrophe comedy doesn’t land the same devastating direct hit as the fictional asteroid of this star-studded satire.
Cannes: Day Three
My final day at Cannes and the last day of the festival, covering Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, Les Olympiades, and partying on the beach with Spike Lee.
Cannes: Day Two
A recap of my second day in Cannes, covering racy historical drama Benedetta, a Q&A with an Academy Award-winning director, and almost being hit with a rose thrown by Bill Murray.
Cannes: Day One
A recap of my first official day of the 74th edition of the Festival de Cannes, including the world premiere of Casablanca Beats.
The Long Goodbye
Why Robert Altman made Raymond Chandler’s classic 1950s noir novel as a 70s detective story.
Starsky & Hutch
Can a Frat Pack comedy from the director of The Hangover really be one of the best films set in the seventies?
Boogie Nights
How the soundtrack to Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 cult film, set against the backdrop of the 70s porn industry, helps to cement it as a modern classic.
Promising Young Woman
Carey Mulligan is on a mission for revenge in Emerald Fennell’s quirky Oscar-nominated black comedy.
Judas and the Black Messiah
Shaka King’s Oscar-nominated true story about an FBI informant who infiltrates the Black Panthers in order to garner evidence that will lead to the arrest of their controversial chairman.
GFF: The Man Standing Next
Woo Min-ho’s tense drama is set against the backdrop of real-life political turmoil in South Korea, 1979.
GFF: A Brixton Tale
A breathless drama set in South London that explores the relationship between filmmaker, Lia, and her shy subject, Benji.
GFF: Limbo
Ben Sharrock's dry comedy follows a Syrian musician who flees his war-torn homeland to seek asylum on a remote Scottish island.
GFF: Castro’s Spies
A documentary exploring the lives of a group of Cuban intelligence agents operating undercover in 90s Miami during US-Cuba tensions.
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