Ever want­ed to see John Carpenter’s The Thing on a ski slope?

The line-up for the 2017 Glas­gow Film Fes­ti­val has been announced, and to make a snap judg­ment, it’s looks to be a vin­tage crop of screen­ings, events, pan­els and all man­ner of movie-themed larks. Titles set to be unfurled for the first time in the UK include Ter­ence Malick’s Voy­age of Time, which you absolute­ly have to see on the big screen, Raoul Peck’s ode to author and thinker James Bald­win, I Am Not Your Negro, Kate Shortland’s fol­low-up to Lore, Berlin Syn­drome, and the new film from Finnish giant, Aki Kau­ris­mä­ki, The Oth­er Side of Hope.

We’ve already report­ed on the open­ing and clos­ing films, but else­where there will be a chance to catch pre­views of juicy Cannes com­pe­ti­tion entries such as Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Olivi­er Assayas’ Per­son­al Shop­per. The LWLies team will be in town too, host­ing a Q&A with Brit film leg­end Ter­rence Davies who will be pre­sent­ing a pre­view of his haunt­ing and per­son­al take on the cur­tailed life of the poet Emi­ly Dick­in­son, A Qui­et Pas­sion, which also boasts an extra­or­di­nary lead per­for­mance by Cyn­thia Nixon.

More British films to watch out for include the com­plete­ly mad­balls and lov­able Mind­horn by Sean Foley, which sees Mighty Boosh alum­ni Julian Bar­ratt roll out an exem­plary new com­ic cre­ation in preen­ing, washed-up TV actor Richard Thorn­croft. Then there’s Hope Dick­son Leach’s acclaimed debut, The Lev­el­ling, Ben Wheatley’s insane shoot-’em-up Free Fire, and charm­ing wartime romp, Their Finest, which fea­tures a trio of superb cen­tral turns from Gem­ma Arte­ton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy.

Themed screen­ings of clas­sic titles are a main­stay of Glas­gow, and this year is no excep­tion. Ever want­ed to expe­ri­ence John Carpenter’s claus­tro­pho­bic ice­bound hor­ror opus, The Thing, in the cool­ing con­fines of an indoor ski slope? Or per­haps see Dirty Danc­ing and then segue straight into a dance work­shop? Well now you can expe­ri­ence all these things and more.

The full pro­gramme has now been announced and as you’ll see, if we were to namecheck all the stuff that’s worth see­ing, we’d be here all day. The fes­ti­val itself kicks off on the 15 Feb­ru­ary and runs through to the 26 at venues through­out the city. Find out more at glas​gow​film​.org