The nights are fair drawin’ in here in Glasgow so if you’re feeling stuck for some Autumnal midweek activities in the Southside, look no further as we’re back for first in our October edition of the film club with Swedish romantic horror Let the Right One In.
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Film Club tickets update
A quick update on the ticketing arrangements for Film Club.The very kind folks at Glad Cafe sell our tickets for us in advance of the screenings. However, to help keep things simple we’ve decided that tickets for each month’s screenings will only be available to buy in person from the Glad Cafe the month before each screening. So, dates for ticket sales are as follows:
- Let the Right One In – available to buy from 3rd Sept to 8th Oct
- Robot & Frank – available to buy from 10th Sept to 15th Oct
- Vampyr – available to buy in person on the night 27th Oct at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall
- Behind the Candelabra – available to buy from 8th Oct to 5th Nov
- In Bruges – available to buy from 5th Nov to 3rd Dec
- Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists! – available to buy from 5th Nov to 15th Dec
Tickets are also available on the door from Southside Film Festival volunteers the night of each screening from an hour beforehand (so 7pm or 3pm for Pirates!) and online now from Tickets Scotland(booking fee applies).
We hope that all makes sense! We’ll be sure to remind you all via twitter and facebook when the tickets for each screening are available.
Film Club flyers
Our flyers for Autumn Film Club at The Glad Cafe have arrived and our team of dedicated volunteers will be distributing them across the Southside this weekend. Just in time for our first screening – Heathers on Tuesday 3rd September.
The eagle eyed amongst might have spotted that there’s now a 6th screening included on the flyer. This is Robot & Frank which we are screening on Tuesday 15 October in partnership with the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. This is an exciting additional screening to our other Autumn Film Club ones in partnership with The Glad Cafe and there are more details here.
If you see any of our flyers whilst you’re out & about or think there is somewhere good we should be putting them then get in touch via twitter or facebook or by email and use the hashtag #southsidefilm.
Film Club Presents: ‘HEATHERS’ – “Are We Going To Prom, Or To Hell?”
Film Club returns
We’re delighted to announce that film club is back for Autumn 2013!
Here’s the line up for our 5 core Film Club screenings at the Glad Cafe and we have a couple of other screenings planned, details of those will be announced soon.
In September, on Tuesday 3rd we’ll be screening Heathers – the 80’s cult classic black comedy about high school cliques.
In October, on Tuesday 8th we’ll be showing Swedish horror film Let the Right One In/Låt den Rätte Komma In.
For November, there’s a chance to catch the brilliant performances from Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra on Tuesday 5th.
In December, there’ll be two screenings one on Tuesday 3rd In Bruges and on Sunday 15th something for the kids with The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists!
Tickets will be on sale soon – keep an eye out for details. Once they are available you can buy them online from Ticket Scotland and in person at the Glad Cafe and on the door.
The Southside Film Festival in partnership with The Glad Cafe has run a successful film club since October 2012. Our monthly films are screened in the great space at The Glad Cafe on a Tuesday evening at 8pm, with one kids matinee screening per season at 4pm.
Glasgow I Love You, But You’re Freakin’ Me Out!
“Likeable, deadpan and refreshingly self-aware, the inner turmoil and obvious regret of the ageing hipster makes this not only a sad farewell to a great band, but to life as Murphy knows it.” – Total Film, 2012.
So, this coming Saturday – all you Southside music & film buffs (and we know there are LOADS of you) can all get a wee bit nostalgic for our fading youth with our screening of the film at The Glad Cafe (8pm – doors 7.30pm – tickets £6/5). The film seemed to have a pretty limited release when it was out last year so if – like me- you missed it – take this second chance to see it on the big screen!
If you want to make a night of it (Go on…!) – don’t forget that iBop – the Southside’s longest running indie night – will be hosting a wee after party for you all to get your dance on – keep a hold of your ticket stub for discounted entry. Hope to see you all throwing some shapes on the dancefloor – don’t forget your cowbells!
– ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ – Sat 18 May – The Glad Cafe – 8pm (doors 7.30pm) – £6/5 – tickets on sale now at The Glad Cafe or online at http://www.tickets-scotland.com/
Followed by:
– iBop – Sat 18 May – Pollock Ex Servicemans Club – £5 on the door or £4 with your ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ ticket stub.
The Light kicks off the Festival!
With less than a week to go until the festival kick off, programmes are being handed out all over the Southside, venues are setting out their chairs and volunteers are making sure everything’s ready to go. This Friday, the 17th May, it’s only fitting that the 2013 Southside Festival kicks off with a screening of ‘We Are Northern Lights’ at The Glad Cafe on Pollokshaws Road.
In 2012, people from across the country were encouraged to take personal videos of Scotland’s past, present and future and the result was thousands of submissions that have been edited down into this fantastic piece of cinema that will leave you goosebumps and smiling by the end.
February Film Club SOLD OUT
Our first Spring Film Club screening is now SOLD OUT!
On Tuesday 19 February we are screening In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey as part of the Glasgow Film Festival and the first of our Spring Film Club in partnership with The Glad Cafe.
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey (N/C 15)
Synopsis: The unique, guitar finger-picking sound of John Fahey influenced a range of musicians – from Pete Townshend (who calls him the folk equivalent of William Burroughs or Charles Bukowski) to Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Chris Funk of The Decemberists. This documentary recounts the dynamic life of the eccentric guitarist, who transcended blues traditions, melding them with both world and classical forms. Featuring talking heads along with archive footage of performances and interviews, this film creates a vivid portrait of a true guitar pioneer.
**Following the screening will be a short solo set from folk guitarist Alasdair Roberts and the director of the film James Cullingham will take part in a Q&A.**
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey
Cert N/C 15+, 2012 (58 mins)
The Glad Cafe
Tuesday 19 February, 8pm (doors at 7:30pm)
All Film Club screenings are held at The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands (opposite the five-a-side football pitches) and are usually Tuesday evenings, apart from Saturday matinees for kids.
We have 3 other Spring Film Club screenings planned:
- March 19 -Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A)
- April 13 Sat matinee kids screening: Arrietty (U)
- April 23-The Reader (15)
Plus on Friday 15 March there is a rescheduled Green Screen: Irish Documentary Double Bill screening of A Million Bricks (N/C 15) & Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (N/C 15
April Film Club Kids Screening: Arrietty (U)
Arrietty is from Japan’s Studo Ghibli who brought us the beautiful animation of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo amongst others.
Arrietty is an adaptation of the English novel The Borrowers by Mary Norten about a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of a typical household, borrowing items from humans to survive.
Synopsis: Arrietty tells the story of the Clock family who are four-inch-tall people living anonymously in another family’s residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
http://www.imdb.com/title/
We will be screening the subtitled original 2010 version, not the 2012 American dubbed version but here is the English language trailer:http://www.youtube.com/
Arrietty
Cert U, 2010 (95 mins)
The Glad Cafe
The film will start at 4pm, doors at 3:30pm.
Tickets are £6 (£5 for concessions) and are available from The Glad Cafe and online from Ticket Scotland http://t-s.co/arrie
April Film Club Screening: The Reader (15)
Synopsis: Set in post World War Two Germany, nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
http://www.imdb.com/title/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/
The Reader
Cert 15, 2012 (124 mins)
The Glad Cafe
1006a Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands
The film will start at 8pm, doors at 7:30pm.
Tickets are £6 (£5 for concessions) and are available in advance from The Glad Cafe and online from Ticket Scotland http://t-s.co/ther2
March Film Club Screening: Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (12 A)
BAFTA and OSCAR nominated, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Caméra d’Or for Best First Feature Film at Cannes in 2012, Beasts of the Southern Wild is certainly a celebrated debut. A visually stunning, truly original piece of filmmaking, featuring amazing performances from non actors and the youngest ever Oscar nominee, 9 year old Quvenzhané Wallis.
Synopsis: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
http://www.imdb.com/title/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cert 12A, 2012 (93 mins)
The Glad Cafe
1006a Pollokshaws Rd, Shawlands
Tuesday 19 March, 8pm
The film will start at 8pm, doors at 7:30pm.
Tickets are £6 (£5 for concessions) and are available in advance from The Glad Cafe and online from Ticket Scotland http://t-s.co/beast
Also screening in March for St Patrick’s Day weekend -a double bill of Irish documentaries on Friday 15th March at 7pm in The Glad Cafe http://southsidefilm.co.uk/?p=182
RESCHEDULED: Green Screen Double Bill for St Patrick’s Day Weekend
Green Screen: Irish Documentary Double Bill:
A Million Bricks (N/C 15) & Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (N/C 15)
Friday 15 March
The Glad Cafe
Doors 6.30pm
First Film- A Million Bricks -Starts at 7pm
Co-Director Frank Martin will introduce A Million Bricks and will take part in a Q&A following the film.
Second Film-Bernadette -Starts at 9.15pm
Price for both films – £6 full price £5 concession-and all box office will go directly to the filmmakers. Tickets only available on the door.
A Million Bricks

They were ordinary people who saw their hopes realised, then dashed within the space of a decade.
Where once stood a row of houses shared by Protestants and Catholics now stands Belfast’s biggest peace-line, a wall of a million bricks, separating them.
Co Director Frank Martin will travel from Belfast for this screening to introduce the film and take part in a Q&A after the film so don’t miss this!
Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey has certainly had a tumultuous political career and her political journey continues to this day. Lelia Doolan’s documentary allows her personal and political story to unfold in this atmospheric and evocative film. Using archive footage and a series of interviews with Bernadette herself over a number of years, a complex and intricate picture evolves of a formidable figure of recent Irish politics.
Thanks to Director Lelia Doolan for permission to screen this film.
Rescheduled from Southside Film Festival, May 2012, for St Patrick’s Day weekend.
Film Club is Back for Spring! Feb screening with Glasgow FIlm Festival
We’re pleased to announce that Southside Film Festival Film club is back for Spring 2013!
On Tuesday 19 February we will be screening In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey as part of the Glasgow Film Festival and the first of our Spring Film Club in partnership with The Glad Cafe.
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey (N/C 15)
Synopsis: The unique, guitar finger-picking sound of John Fahey influenced a range of musicians – from Pete Townshend (who calls him the folk equivalent of William Burroughs or Charles Bukowski) to Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Chris Funk of The Decemberists. This documentary recounts the dynamic life of the eccentric guitarist, who transcended blues traditions, melding them with both world and classical forms. Featuring talking heads along with archive footage of performances and interviews, this film creates a vivid portrait of a true guitar pioneer.
**Following the screening will be a short solo set from folk guitarist Alasdair Roberts and the director of the film James Cullingham will take part in a Q&A.**
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey
Cert N/C 15+, 2012 (58 mins)
The Glad Cafe
Tuesday 19 February, 8pm
The film will start at 8pm, doors at 7:30pm.
Tickets are £8.50 (£6.50 for concessions) and are available from the Glasgow Film Festival.
UPDATE: GFF HAVE SOLD OUT OF ONLINE TICKETS SO TICKETS NOW ONLY AVAILABLE IN ADVANCE IN PERSON FROM THE GLAD CAFE (or on the door on the night if we don’t sell out)
All Film Club screenings are held at The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands (opposite the five-a-side football pitches) and are usually Tuesday evenings, apart from Saturday matinees for kids.
Check out Spring Film Club screenings:
March 19 -Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A)
April 13 Sat matinee kids screening: Arrietty (U)
April 23-The Reader (15)
We have also added an additional screening for March -a rescheduled screening of the Irish documentary double bill for St Patrick’s Day weekend – at 7pm on Friday 15 March in The Glad Cafe http://southsidefilm.co.uk/?p=182
October Short: Coffin Up
As part of our new Film Club we are showing a short film before each of the feature screenings.
At our halloween screening of Frankenstein we showed Coffin Up, the winning entry in the Edinburgh 48 Hour Film Project 2012. It was conceived, written, filmed and edited over 48 hours from 18-20 May 2012.