Film week under Gaia
As part of our 50th anniversary programme we are hosting a series of film nights from Monday 5 June to Thursday 8 June at Mackintosh Queen’s Cross.
Koyaanisqatsi – Monday 5 June at 7.00pm
Tickets £7.50 from Eventbrite
A unique opportunity to see this cinematography masterpiece.
Told without dialogue, narration, cast or characters, Koyaanisqatsi is a dizzying, hypnotic example of cinema set to an extraordinary score by Philip Glass. It contrasts natural beauty with a population ever more dependent on modern technology.
Shot on a low budget in New York City and the American South West, the film found support from Francis Ford Coppola where it found a larger audience and has gone on to become a cult classic.
If ever a film was destined for watching in a cinema, this is it.
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Under the Skin – Tuesday 6 June at 7.00pm
Tickets £7.50 from Eventbrite
An alien entity inhabits the earthly form of a seductive young woman who combs the Scottish highways in search of the human prey it is here to plunder. It lures its isolated and forsaken male victims into an otherworldly dimension where they are stripped and consumed. But life in all its complexity starts to change the alien. It begins to see itself as ‘she’, as human, with tragic and terrifying consequences. UNDER THE SKIN is about seeing ourselves through alien eyes.
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Comfort and Joy – Wednesday 7 June at 7.00pm
Tickets £7.50 from Eventbrite
A beautiful film, Comfort and Joy not only captures those late winter afternoons of a former industrial city like Glasgow (expertly lensed by Chris Menges) it also captures the Christmas message in the most subtlest and wryest of ways. And once again Mark Knopfler delivers a gem of a score, with Dire Straits’ Private Investigations figuring large as Dickie Bird lifts the lid on the ice cream wars.
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