Skip to main content

Glasgow Film Festival · 2027

Glasgow Film Festival 2027

Retrospective: Somebody's Watching

Programme

3 films · 3 reviews

Jump to a film

Blow-Up

Review preview for Blow-Up

For better or worse, Antonioni’s got his master stylist hat on here, even if it sometimes obscures his vision.

Antoni Konieczny · 3.5 out of 5
A fashion photographer believes he may have caught something sinister on camera.

(Country: UK, Italy, US; Year: 1966; Director: Michelangelo Antonioni; Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni, Julio Cortázar, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond; Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin, Jeff Beck, Roy Beck, Susan Brodrick, Tsai Chin, Julio Cortázar)

Full review

Sex, Lies, And Videotape

Review preview for Sex, Lies, And Videotape

Made on just over a million dollars, this remains a hugely impressive first feature.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Surburban lives are turned upside down and lies exposed due to the arrival of a man who gets his kicks from video interviews.

(Country: US; Year: 1989; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Writer: Steven Soderbergh; Stars: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo)

Full review

A Scanner Darkly

Review preview for A Scanner Darkly

It's difficult to imagine any fan of Dick's failing to adore this film; but as it retains the genius of his work, so it retains the flaws, and this could be a big problem for some other viewers.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
An undercover agent with a drug habit watches his other self through a scanner.

(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Philip K Dick, Richard Linklater; Stars: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder, Sean Allen, Mitch Baker, Cliff Haby, Steven Chester Prince, Natasha Valdez, Mark Turner)

Full review See: The Cinema according to Philip K. Dick