As we welcome audiences back into cinemas for Glasgow Film Festival 2022, we're thrilled to bring back longstanding festival favourite, the FREE Retrospective programme. This time we're taking you back to 1962: the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nelson Mandela's imprisonment, widespread political paranoia and simmering civil unrest.
Winds of Change: Cinema in '62 showcases some of the very best films this eventful year has to offer. From David Lean’s immense epic Lawrence of Arabia to Agnès Varda’s Parisian real-time chronicle Cléo from 5 to 7, and even contemporary western Lonely Are the Brave, you will be spoiled for choice.
For a sense of the anxieties and frustrations keenly felt at the time, the famously prescient The Manchurian Candidate and To Kill a Mockingbird (based on Harper Lee's beloved novel) both offer a unique look at the political landscape and growing calls for racial justice. For a dose of escapism, join Sean Connery as 007 on his first mission in Dr. No.
What better way to start your festival morning than with a free screening of a modern masterpiece or classic slice of cinema, each of which will have a special introduction from Glasgow Film Festival Co-Director, Allan Hunter.
Tickets for each film in the Retrospective programme will be available on the morning of the screening from the GFT Box Office.