This year’s season launch of student drama will take place in The Brian Friel Theatre on Wednesday 25th November. Five plays, student directed, cast and crewed will be performed throughout the academic year by current third year students .
BY SARAH MULLAN
To celebrate the launch of the 2009 Bank of Ireland QFT Student Membership Scheme, QFT is holding a special students-only screening of the classic off-the wall Coen Brothers’ comedy featuring cinema’s quintessential slacker, Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski.
Family, honour, betrayal, corruption, love and loss.
These are just a few of the many challenging themes running through Francis Ford Coppola’s outstanding adaption of Mario Puzo’s classic novel. The Godfather has been proclaimed by critics and movie goers alike to be the greatest film ever made. And now 37 years after its initial release, this popularity shows no sign of waning.
BY JASON GAMBLE
What did you think of the last line? Have your say!
Deemed to be original and true to life, I found this film a massive cliché, bar a few scenes in the middle which kept me tuned in. There is nothing sadder than unrequited love, and yeah, it happens in real life and not so much in the cinema. However, I found so many aspects of the film extremely try-hard and there was such an effort to be “cool” being made the whole way through. Funny how they were both big Smiths fans, and not Britney fans (for want of a better example).
BY CATHERINE WYLIE
Directed by Sam Mendes, this film follows an unmarried couple as they travel around America trying to find the perfect place to raise their unborn baby. On the way, they encounter old friends and relatives, to both hilarious and heart wrenching effect. It is hard to decide who really makes this film the classic that it is: Is it the leading characters or the support characters?
BY CATHERINE WYLIE
Fancy a trip to the cinema uninterrupted by the slurping of drinks and munching of popcorn? Want to challenge your mind beyond what the latest generic rom-com instalment at the average multiplex can offer? For a cinematic experience unparalleled in the rest of Belfast, QFT is a haven from the moment of entry. Surrounded by framed black and white images of scenes from classic movies, it’s clear that QFT is a movie lovers’ cinema, for appreciators of the pure exhilaration and joy brought by a good film.
Emma Creen