Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach's While We’re Young gets an opening gala
Scottish film fans and people who just happen to be in the Glasgow area in late February but who really like movies rejoice! The line-up for the Glasgow Film Festival, a jamboree of films, events and Q&As now in its eleventh year, has been announced. In a coup for the festival, Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young will get its European premiere to kick things off on February 18. The curtain comes down a fortnight later with the Cannes-approved during-ski drama Force Majeure.
Lending some indie cachet and star power to the festival, Baumbach’s latest reunites him with his Greenberg star Ben Stiller in a drama about two middle-aged types (Stiller and Naomi Watts) who try to veer away from fuddy-duddydom by hanging out with young hipsters played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. Click here for the trailer.
Other notable premieres include Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated doc Salt Of The Earth and Alzheimer's dramas Still Alice for which Julianne Moore is a hot Best Actress favourite.
Additional highlights this year to look out for include the Scottish premiere of Shaun The Sheep, a 1970s roller-disco screening of Richard Linklater’s Dazed And Confused, a pop-up screening of The King Of Kong in a specially-created arcade and something called 'Mad IMAX'. We don’t really know what that is, but we definitely approve of the pun.
Tickets for the festival go on sale on January 26. For all the skinny on the line-up and events surrounding it, head to the official site.
from Empire News
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