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Strictly Ballroom

The first of next year's Glasgow Film Festival events have been announced, including a Strictly Ballroom screening and dance spectacular to be held in the famous Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. The French 1928 version of The Fall Of The House Of Usher will screen in the grand Gothic Pollokshaws Burgh Hall with a new soundtrack by Irene Buckley played live on the Wurlitzer organ. And Paul Merton will appear live in a special tribute to silent film comedy legend Buster Keaton.

The event line-up will also include the unveiling of British Sea Power's project From The Sea To The Land Beyond, with film and live music in former cinema the ABC. Renaud Garcia-Fons and his band will provide a live score for The Adventures Of Prince Achmed, while the Internet Cat Video Festival will make an appearance in the city's Gallery of Modern Art.

Kelvingrove Museum Photo: Stuart Crawford

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Live dance with Strictly Ballroom screening and Paul Merton show among first events.

The 11th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival will include comedy and live dance shows and new space-takeovers.

The festival returns to venues Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery for a live dance show and Strictly Ballroom screening, and it will take over the Gothic surroundings of Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, as composer Irene Buckley premieres a new soundtrack to 1928 classic The Fall of the House of Usher on the Hall’s original Wurlitzer Cinema Organ.

Paul Merton and award-winning silent film pianist Neil Brand will team up and pay tribute to comedy legend Buster Keaton with a live show and Gff will also host the Scottish premiere of British Sea Power’s film/live score project From The Sea To The Land Beyond.

French bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons and his live band will create an East-West fusion score to Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 animation The Adventures of Prince...

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