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Glasgow Film Festival · 2015

Glasgow Film Festival 2015

Stranger than Fiction

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13 films · 8 reviews

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Altman

A look at the life and work of the US filmmaker.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Ron Mann; Writer: Len Blum; Stars: Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Julianne Moore, James Caan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Keith Carradine, Elliott Gould, Lily Tomlin, Robert Altman, Philip Baker Hall, Sally Kellerman, Lyle Lovett, Michael Murphy)

Burroughs: The Movie

Review preview for Burroughs: The Movie

Like much of Burroughs' writing, the film has a shaggy dog tale quality, rambling along in a way which does not at first seem nearly as informative as it actually is, then bursting into moments of brilliant radicalism.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Portrait of the author, built around a series of encounters with him and interviews with many friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, John Giorno. and Brion Gysin.

(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Howard Brookner; Stars: Mortimer Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Jackie Curtis, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, James Grauerholz, Brion Gysin, Lauren Hutton, Patti Smith, Terry Southern)

Full review See: Interview with Sara Driver about Uncle Howard

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films

Review preview for Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films

A breezy, captivating and balanced tale of a studio whose rise and fall is perhaps the only story actually more bizarre than the plots of the films that came out of it.

Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
Examination of exploitation cinema.

(Country: Australia, US, Israel, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mark Hartley; Writer: Mark Hartley, Mark Hartley; Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Molly Ringwald, Bo Derek, Marina Sirtis, Olivia d'Abo, Robert Forster, Richard Chamberlain, Elliott Gould, Mimi Rogers, Cassandra Peterson, Catherine Mary Stewart, Alex Winter, Franco Nero, Diane Franklin, Michael Dudikoff)

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Family Goldmine

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A bold edit based on what must have been a frustrating shoot, this film becomes a story not about gold but about people pursuing their dreams under the shadow of grand empires and hybrid religions.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A family sets out to make its fortune through gold mining in Mali, despite having absolutely no experience.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Robbie Fraser; Stars: Claude Nicolay, Moira Nicolay, Craig Nicolay, Pierre Nicolay)

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Life's A Beach

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A simple, lyrical film, with beautiful photography that amply conveys Mungo's love of his home.

Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
A documentary about a man campaigning for the right to keep living in the home he built from driftwood on Folkestone Beach.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: John Baker; Stars: Jerry 'Mungo' Francis, Billy Francis, Jodanna Stone)

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Limited Partnership

Review preview for Limited Partnership

This documentary brings an important personal dimension to the long struggle for equal marriage.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two men who married in Colorado in 1975 recall their struggle for true equality and talk of the love that kept them going.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Thomas G Miller; Stars: Tony Sullivan, Richard Adams)

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On the Trail Of The Far Fur Country

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It's a brutal story, though full of good intentions and remembered with some affection.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A filmmaker retraces the steps of a 1919 expedition which documented the voyage made by the Hudson Bay Company, discovering traces of Aboriginal Canada along the way.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Kevin Nikkel)

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Queens Of Syria

60 Syrian women set out to perform Greek tragedy The Trojan Women in Jordan, where they have found refuge.

(Country: Lebanon, Jordan, UK, UAE; Year: 2014; Director: Yasmin Fedda)

Red Army

The story of Russia's Red Army hockey team.

(Country: US, Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Gabe Polsky; Writer: Gabe Polsky; Stars: Mark Deakins, Anatoli Karpov, Vyacheslav Fetisov)

The Salt Of The Earth

Review preview for The Salt Of The Earth

Wenders as a curious, excited filmmaker stretches out his hands to show us all the treasures he has found.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
Documentary about photographer Sebastião Salgado.

(Country: France, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2014; Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)

Full review See: Interview with Juliano Ribeiro Salgado about The Salt Of The Earth , Interview with Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders about The Salt Of The Earth (Le Sel De La Terre)

Stray Dog

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Stray Dog is really a very ordinary guy, but there's one thing that's extraordinary about him... he truly believes in America.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
Portrait of American war vet and biker Ronnie ‘Stray Dog’ Hall.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Debra Granik; Writer: Debra Granik; Stars: Ronnie Hall)

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Tales Of The Grim Sleeper

The case of the notorious serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," who terrorised South Central Los Angeles for 25 years.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Nick Broomfield)

Warsaw Uprising

Archive footage, colourisation, lip reading and dubbing have come together to tell the story of the Warsaw ghetto.

(Country: Poland; Year: 2014; Director: Jan Komasa; Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Miroslaw Baka, Jeff Burrell)