The Glasgow Film Festival takes place every year around the end of February, the 2020 festival being Wednesday 26th of February to Sunday 8th of March. As it’s run by Glasgow Film Theatre you can expect a wide variety of films such as art, big budget classics and everything I talked about earlier(LINK TO GFT POST).
Through the festival ‘Special Events’ are held where classic movies are shown in interesting locations. Previous years have had Dazed and Confused with a roller disco before and The Man Who Fell to Earth at the science centre. This year examples of the films being shown at these events are Alien, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, The Blair Witch Project, The Matrix and Ghostbusters.
The festival is opening with Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s. The film is about a young teen Stevie (Sunny Suljic) who doesn’t get along with his mum and brother that his lives with so befriends the people who work and the local skate shop. This coming of age story feels like the West Coast version of Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s 1995 film, Kids.
The soundtrack and setting captures the time period perfectly, and with it being most of the actors first big roles it gives a real feel for the characters.
This was one of my favourite, if not favourite films of 2019, so is a worthy choice to be the opener of the 2020 festival. So I would say it is definitely one of the not miss events of the festival.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Monday 28th of January. glasgowfilm.org/festival
Film By Euan 