Posts Tagged ‘QFT’
REVIEW: Samson and Delilah
Monday, May 17th, 2010
Deemed by the Australian press as a film that Australia could be proud of, and winner of the Camera D’Or award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, ‘Samson and Delilah’ is a love story told unlike any other. The small world in which the lovers inhabit is suddenly shaken when they are forced outside their comfort zones by their aborigine community. Mistaken as social outsiders, the two youths are confronted with a very foreign environment and their relationship is the building block that keeps them going. Director Warwick Thornton offers a truly original portrayal of young love and the struggle to come to grips with modernity in the midst of tradition.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Four Lions
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Once in a blue moon a film comes along which has the power to both completely challenge and flip your preconceptions of a subject, remaining in your head long after you leave the cinema. Usually these films are lengthy, epic blockbusters involving a re-telling of a historic event, or on the other hand, serious, tense thrillers, anything really apart from a laugh-out-loud comedy about four idiots living in Doncaster. But then that’s the magic of Four Lions.
BY KATHRYN McCANN
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
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REVIEW: The Gut Girls – Drama Studies Showcase
Friday, April 30th, 2010
The Gut Girls is a fantastically powerful play with amazing performances from everyone involved. A Northern Irish premiere, it is the story of working class girls employed in a slaughterhouse in Deptford and their struggle to become who they want to be. A strongly feminist play, it deals with issues such as male dominance, misogyny, rape and how women can be “destined” to a life of domestic and marital drudgery. Despite all this, it is never preachy and is frequently hilarious.
BY BEN FINCH
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ARTS: The Life And Times of the Living Dead
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
The QFT will be holding a zombie themed weekend on the 30h April through to Sunday 2nd May. The weekend includes the premiere screening of locally produced horror film ‘Deadville’ on Saturday the 1st May at 6.45pm. Shot in HD and made with the very modest budget of £1000, ‘Deadville’ is a psychological horror that explores just how far someone will go for love.
BY EMMA GALLEN
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
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REVIEW: Life during Wartime
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Todd Solondz is not a mainstream filmmaker and probably never will be. His films are dark (though funny) and very much for a niche audience. He is probably best known for 1998’s hilarious ‘Happiness’, which tackled paedophilia and other difficult subjects. His new film, ‘Life During Wartime’, is a sequel to ‘Happiness’, picking up ten years later and following the logical progression of all the same characters.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
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ARTS: Belfast Film Festival
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
The Belfast Film Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with one hundred and twenty five screenings across the city. Running from the 15th to the 30th April with events ranging from the UK/Irish premiere of Colin Farrell’s new film, Triage, to the ninth Belfast World Pong Championship, for those who prefer to try their hand with an electronic paddle.
BY BEN FINCH
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COMMENT: Israel, right to build?
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Ban Ki-moon declared Israeli settlement in Palestine to be illegal last week. He said, “Let us be clear: all settlement activity is illegal anywhere in occupied territory, and this must stop.” Yet two days later Binyamin Netenyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, asserted their “right to build”. There are currently plans to build 1,600 more houses in Palestinian Jerusalem on top of the 500,000 settlers already living there and in the West Bank.
BY BEN FINCH
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