I wasn’t expecting so many people to venture out during this freeze-blast, but venture out they did! They were not disappointed. This was my third screening of Red Road, and it hasn’t lost one bit of its edge. In the 2014 blog post after the second screening, I had this to say:

“Life in Glasgow can be pretty harsh. “I’ll see you, Jimmy!” is something you don’t want to hear being directed at you, since it is usually followed by excruciating pain, typically caused by the impact of the speaker’s forehead across the bridge of your nose. This move is often referred to as a “Glasgow Kiss”. Yet, in Andrea Arnold’s debut feature, Red Road, which packed the house on this lovely, springy first day of May, there is evidence of tenderness as well. The sex scene is, how shall I put it… quite memorable.

We first showed Red Road in 2006, before it was released in this country… had to sit on the floor that night. It’s hard to believe that eight years have passed. Sill here!”

Arnold’s best known films are Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2014). Her most recent is Bird (2024), which was well received at NewScreen last year. I have yet to see Wuthering Heights (2011), which Arnold professed to find” hard to look at” during a 2016 Tribeca Film Festival interview. “It was a very difficult time for me, that film,” she said. “I was in a dark place.”

It seems to me that it might be time to take a look.