A superb selection of documentaries that will make your eyes open wide in wonder.
Read our full 2009 Glasgow Film Festival coverage.
View other Glasgow Film Festival Films by Strand: European Cinema, Frightfest, Galas, Glasgow Shorts Film Festival, Great Scots, Happy Birthday Errol Flynn!, It's a Wonderful World, Music and Film, Retrospective, The State Of Independents, Viva Mexico!, Youth Film Festival
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| Bronson and The Age Of Stupid |
The Age Of Stupid (Country: UK; Director: Franny Armstrong; Writer: Franny Armstrong; Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Jamila Bayyoud, Adnan Bayyoud, Alvin DuVernay, Piers Guy, Layefa Malini, Fernand Pareau, Jeh Wadia) Docudrama about a future archivist looking back on the decisions that led to runaway climate change and the ruin of human civilisation. Full Review
Bigger, Stronger, Faster (Country: US; Director: Christopher Bell; Writer: Christopher Bell, Alexander Buono, Tamsin Rawa)
As entertaining as it is informative, this documentary goes beyond simply examining the truth about anabolic steroids and the athletes - professional and amateur - who use them. Focusing on his own family's personal history, Bell looks at why Americans feel the need to be the biggest, strongest, and fastest.
Bronson (Country: UK; Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Writer: Brock Norman Brock; Cast: Tom Hardy, Matt King, Terry Stone, Amanda Burton, Jonathan Phillips, Hugh Ross, Kelly Adams, China-Black, Joe Tucker, Edward Bennett-Coles, Katy Barker) Story of the self-named "most violent prisoner in Britain". Initially jailed, at 19, in 1974, for stealing just over £25, his offences on the inside have seen his sentence repeatedly extended. A study of the prison culture as well as the man. Full Review See: Sundance Diary: Day Five Official Site, View Trailer
Modern Life (Profils paysans: la vie moderne) (Country: France; Director: Raymond Depardon)
Established chronicler of rural France, Depardon, returns to the Haut-Garonne area to revisit the subjects of his previous Profils Paysans films.
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| Tyson and Encounters At The End Of The World |
Religulous (Country: US; Director: Larry Charles; Writer: Bill Maher; Cast: Bill Maher, David Rosen, Kamal Farah, David L Parsons, Shmuel Strauss, Levi Halperin, Aki Nawaz, Jimmy Turkmani, Ferre van Beveren, Fatimah Elatik, Geert Wilders, Reginald Foster, John Westcott, Francis Collins, Dean Hamer, Jeremiah Cummings, George V Coyne, Andrew Newberg, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, Brian Weiss, Ray Suarez, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Kathy Maher, Julie Maher, Mark Pryor, Joe Copland, Ken Ham, Steve Burg, Ted Bachman, Bill Gardiner) According to the festival synopsis: "Religulous could be billed as the funniest, most irreverent and provocative documentary you will see in this lifetime, if its pertinence didn't give you the chills." So there. Full Review View Trailer
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