Posts Tagged ‘QFT’
REVIEW: Volume Control at the Ulster Hall
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Given that the first official gig of Belfast Music Week fell on Halloween, the abundance of superheroes, witches and tiger onesies was assumed. The first band of the night, Colly Strings, unsuccessfully attempted to emulate the gothic cool of A Clockwork Orange’s Alex DeLarge. Instead, they resembled a quartet of immaculately turned out butlers. Dubious costume choices aside, the band won over the crowd with a splendid set, but still paled in comparison to the next twenty minutes from Rainy Boy Sleep.
BY TARA MCEVOY (more…)
Tags: A Clockwork Orange, A Plastic Rose, Alex DeLarge, Belfast Music Week, Colly STrings, Colonel Sanders, Ed Sheeran, General Fiasco, Gown, newspaper, Owen Pallett, QFT, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, Rainy Boy Sleep, Review, Silhouette, student, students, Tara McEvoy, Tenacious D, The Gown
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REVIEW: 13 Assassins
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Picture the re-imagining of an old fashioned samurai film by one of the best directors in Japanese cinema to date. Director Takashi Miike is best known for his hyper violent films ‘Audition’, ‘Three Extremes’ and of course ‘Ichi the Killer’. Constantly behind the camera working on projects, Miike is one of the most famous and productive directors in modern Japanese cinema, yet most of his work goes unseen by audiences outside of East Asia. It’s a crying shame that only his most violent work makes its way across the globe and seeing as we Westerns haven’t heard his name mentioned since 2004, it’s about time he hit it big with his take on the classic samurai feature.
BY LAURA SHEARER (more…)
Tags: Gown, Laura shearer, newspaper, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, su, The Gown
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ARTS: Rough Cuts in the Brian Friel Theatre
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
On Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th April, the Brian Friel Theatre at the QFT played host to ‘Rough Cuts’, a series of theatrical offerings from Queens University’s First Year Drama students who drew upon texts from well known writers such as Oscar Wilde and Peter Shaffer.
BY STEPHEN CONLON (more…)
Tags: Brian Friel Theatre, Gown, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Rough Cuts, Stephen Conlon, student, students, The Gown
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REVIEW: Control at the QFT
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
This year’s Belfast Festival saw the QFT focus upon ‘movies, myths and music’, screening film portrayals of iconic figures such as Ian Dury, John Lennon and Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. Control, directed by Anton Corbijn, dramatises the latter’s brief career and suicide at the age of twenty-three, while Jon Savage’s documentary Joy Division features archival footage of the band as well as interviews with its surviving members.
BY MATTHEW MISKIMMIN
Tags: Belfast Festival at Queen's, Gown, Joy Division, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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REVIEW: The Bicycle Thieves at the QFT
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Even those who weren’t able to attend Queen’s Film Theatre on a cold rainy Saturday in September should need me to tell them how good Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 classic, The Bicycle Thieves, is. History has already decided on that.
BY ANDREW MOORE
Tags: Andrew Moore, Gown, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Bicycle Thieves, The Gown
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REVIEW: Certified copy at the QFT
Monday, September 6th, 2010
‘Certified copy’ is the new film by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, best known for such films as ‘A taste of cherry’ and ‘Ten’. His first film made away from Iran, ‘Certified copy’ stars Juliette Binoche, winner of the Best Actress award at Cannes for her slightly overwrought performance here. Despite the plaudits concerning a tour de force performance from one of France’s premier actresses, there is something more interesting at work in this apparent romantic drama.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
Tags: Certified copy, Gown, Matthew McKernan, newspaper, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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REVIEW: Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky at the QFT
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
As the closing film for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, ‘Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky’ received lots of attention and thankfully lives up to the hype. Anna Mouglalis is a familiar face, the muse of Karl Lagerfield and model of Chanel campaigns, and thus suitably plays Chanel. Based on a novel by a school teacher, this steamy affair finds itself placed just after Audrey Tatou’s memorable performance in ‘Coco Before Chanel’ on the biographical timeline. Two huge artistic icons, of fashion and music, they are a fascinating couple. Their likeminded passions make this film feel like more of an exposé of their lives. It’s a wondrous joy for fans of dark romances and of the pair of characters.
BY LAURA SHEARER
Tags: Gown, Laura shearer, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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