Posts Tagged ‘QFT’
REVIEW: Food Inc.
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Food Inc. is the latest documentary/expose of corporate finagling within the food industry. By buying a ticket, you are paying for a dose of depression and guilt, both of which you get in spades, but you also get a multi-layered and valuable insight into a very real and unmonitored problem. Oddly enough, what gives the film special credence is Eric Schlosser’s (author of ‘Fast Food Nation’) unabashed claim that his favourite meal is still a hamburger and chips. Obviously, this isn’t some vegan polemic, as all foods get the same treatment.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
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REVIEW: The Last Station
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
With the Oscars less than a fortnight away, audiences must exercise caution when choosing a film to go and see. Oscar dramas are a tricky class of film. Taking as an example last year’s Oscar race, for every ‘Gran Torino’ and ‘Frost/ Nixon’ there was a ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ or ‘The Reader’. If you’re lucky, you could get something moving and riveting. If unlucky, however, you might end up with a dull movie with terrible Oscar clips (the scenes in which venerable actors give loud and annoying bravura performances), which merely serve to startle you back into lucidity. The Last Station, oddly enough, falls between these two stools.
BY MATTHEW McKERNAN
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INTERVIEW: Director of ‘The Donahue sisters’
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
At the launch of The Brian Friel Theatre season, we were spoilt for choice with the best of what you could expect for the rest of the year. From the intriguing plays ‘Beckett’s Shorts’ and ‘The Libertine’, the immense ‘Crooked’ to the absurdly comic ‘Rhinoceros’, amongst them all one performance stood alone in the crowd, ‘The Donahue Sisters’. The director of the play, Ciara McGuigan, talked to The Gown about the project.
BRIAN SWANN
Tags: Brian Swann, Ciara McGuigan, Gown, newspaper, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, the Donahue sisters, The Gown
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REVIEW: Adoration
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
‘Adoration’ is the new film by Canadian-Armenian auteur Atom Egoyan, a director held in high regard by the art house crowd. His latest is a puzzle box of a movie that looks at terrorism with a complex and thought-provoking approach. It tells the story of Simon, a student, raising a kerfuffle when he presents the tale of a botched act of terrorism as the work of his own father. Egged on by Sabine, his French teacher, he develops the story, which spreads across the internet. Opinions get more and more reactionary and the situation soon spirals out of control.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
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REVIEW: Micmacs
Friday, February 19th, 2010
The new film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, of ‘Delicatessen’ and ‘Amelie’ fame, features quirky comedy, a plethora of weird characters and a political message. Through its comedic story, we are introduced to the homeless Bazil (Dany Boon), who takes revenge against two warring arms traders, both inadvertently responsible for his troubled existence. One produced the mine that killed his father; the other produced the bullet now lodged in Bazil’s brain. Assisting him in his seemingly futile mission is a diverse group of seven second-hand dealers, the “Micmacs”, each with a unique talent.
BY MATTHEW McKERNAN
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REVIEW: Translations at QFT
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
If you need to understand why the theatre space in the QFT is named in the honour of Friel, Tyrone Guthrie Society’s production of Translations demonstrates this reason each night of their successful run at The Brian Friel Theatre. David Grant brings a professionally performed and directed, amateur production to the stage.
BY BRIAN SWANN
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FEATURE: Belfast4Haiti
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, a country already on its knees became hell on earth. Belfast musicians Anto O’Kane and Aaron Abernethy decided to do something to help, and soon found that their city wanted to join them.
BY HEATHER MCGARRIGLE
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