A celebration of the vintage days of Hollywood glamour will be one of the highlights of next year's Glasgow Film Festival.
Next year will see the 10th running of the annual festival, which is now the third biggest film festival in the UK.
Last year the festival registered 39,000 admissions to its more than 360 events, which included 57 UK premieres and seven world premieres as well as featuring appearance from talents such as Joss Whedon, John C Reilly, Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan.
It will be the 75th anniversary of the opening of the doors of The Cosmo in 1939, which was the predecessor of the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT), and also 40 years since the GFT re-opened after a make over.
The film festival will therefore be looking to 1939, when the Best Picture award nominees at the Oscars were Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory, Love Affair, Goodbye Mr Chips, Ninotchka, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Of Mice and Men and The Wizard of Oz.
The 2014 festival will be screening all these films in its Hooray for Hollywood strand, and will reveal the rest of its programme on January 21 next year.
Filmmaking of Chile will also be celebrated at the festival and there will be a theme "pop up" cinema at every night of the festival, "taking in more venues across the city than ever".
It has previously shown films in the Glasgow Subway, on the Tall Ship Glenlee and in the Grand Ole Opry venue.
The 2014 programme will also include the world premiere of Happy and Glorious, a new film commission by the video artist and recent Jarman Award nominee, Rachel Maclean.
The festival will also take in the Glasgow Youth Film Festival, and will also see the new screen at the GFT in use, a new facility built where its former cafe used to be.
Allan Hunter, co-director of the GFT, said: "The festival has grown and developed in ways that we couldn't have imagined in 2005.
"It has been nurtured and sustained by the enthusiasm and passionate dedication of audiences from near and far who have come to regard Glasgow as their festival and an event they can trust to bring them the best cinematic experiences, the most accessible guests and the most affordable prices. We take the bond of trust with our audiences very seriously and look forward to presenting them with a 2014 programme that matches their expectations of what a Film Festival should be."
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