Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Glasgow >> 2018 >> Stranger Than Fiction

Glasgow Film Festival 2018

View other Glasgow Film Festival Films by strand: Cinemasters , Crossing the Line , Frightfest , Future Cult , Galas , Ireland: The Near Shore , Local Heroes , Modern Families , Pioneer , Pure Baltic , Rebel Heroes , Sound and Vision , Special Events , Window On The World

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story and Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Another News Story (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Orban Wallace)
A documentary about journalists sent by their employers to the Mediterranean to cover the unfolding humanitarian tragedy.
Full Review
All The Wild Horses (Country: Ireland, Mongolia; Year: 2017; Director: Ivo Marloh)
A documentary about competitors in the Mongol Derby, the world's longest and toughest horse race.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Alexandra Dean; Writer: Alexandra Dean)
A documentary about the celebrated actress and inventor.
Full Review See: Alexandra Dean in conversation on the woman who influenced Walt Disney's Snow White and inspired Mel Brooks's Hedley Lamarr and the making of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
, Alexandra Dean in conversation on Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Brimstone And Glory (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Viktor Jakovleski)
A portrait of the National Pyrotechnics Festival in Tultepec.
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Travis Wilkerson)
A documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker's family, set in lower Alabama.
Another News Story Another News Story
Another News Story and Haiku On A Plum Tree
Filmworker (Year: 2017; Director: Tony Zierra)
Documentary about the working relationship between actor Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick.
Full Review See: Whit Stillman in conversation on his Stanley Kubrick, Barcelona, The Last Days Of Disco, Eyes Wide Shut, and Barry Lyndon connection
, Leon Vitali in conversation on Filmworker, Stanley Kubrick's love of animals, photography, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining twins
, Leon Vitali in conversation on Filmworker
Haiku On A Plum Tree (Country: Italy, Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Mujah Maraini-Melehi)
The director reflects on the fate of her grandparents, who moved from Italy to Japan and were interned in a civilian prison camp after refusing to pledge their allegiance to Mussolini’s Republic of Salò.
Full Review
Lots Of Kids, A Monkey And A Castle (Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo) (Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Gustavo Salmerón)
Julita always wanted lots of kids, a monkey, and a castle. After finally realizing these wishes, however, her family loses their property in the economic crisis. But they have not lost the disarming ease and kindheartedness that mark their domestic squabbling.
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches (Country: Australia; Year: 2016; Director: Robert de Young)
An interview with the Australian actor.
Full Review
Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Matt Tyrnauer; Stars: Scotty Bowers)
Scotty Bowers talks about procuring sex for Golden Age Hollywood stars.
Filmworker Filmworker
Filmworker and Lots Of Kids, A Monkey And A Castle
That Summer (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Göran Olsson; Stars: Jackie Onassis, Lee Radziwill)
In summer 1972, photographer Peter Beard and Jackie Onassis' socialite sibling Lee Radziwill worked together on a film about her relatives and the sisters’ childhood in the Hamptons. The abandoned footage - some of it shot by Andy Warhol - has finally emerged.
This Is Congo (Country: US, Congo; Year: 2017; Director: Daniel McCabe)
Documentary about conflict in the DRC.
News

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground

More news and features

Playing Now
Festival Image

Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:

DOC NYC
New York's celebration of factual film

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Baltic film festival

French Film Festival
The UK's longest running celebration of Francophone cinema

Leeds International Film Festival

Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Celebration of world cinema

In the Archive
Competition Picture


Archive of festival coverage.

Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.

Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.