Posts Tagged ‘QFT’
COLUMN: Clarissa Long explains it all
Monday, March 8th, 2010
The enormous Queen’s University with its silent students and swapping those short New York minutes for Belfast hours -
I love New York City. I love walking in a group of hundreds of people, like we’re one great pack of sheep. I love the lights, the ambulances, yes, even the ‘New York Minute’ mentality. So why did I come here to Belfast? I wanted a change of scene. I’m someone who definitely likes being in their comfort zone, but I also think it’s really important to get out sometimes and live a little.
BY CLARISSA LONG
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REVIEW: Little Moscow
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Little Moscow (Mala Moskwa) is the opening film of the QFT’s current Polish film festival – Kinoteka On Tour 4. Directed by Waldemar Krzystek, it’s the story of marital infidelity and troubled occupation in Legnica, the Soviet headquarters in Poland between 1945 and 1990, known as ‘Little Moscow’. Wiera (Svetlana Khodchenkova), the beautiful wife of Russian commander Jura (Dmitri Ulyanov), isn’t in Legnica long before she is wooed by Polish officer Michal (Leslaw Zurek). The affair has unfortunate consequences, flying in the face of the awkward Russian-Polish relations, which emphasize acceptance but not fraternization.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
www.queensfilmtheatre.org.uk
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REVIEW: How to Become Myself
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Jun Ichikawa’s stunning film launched the QFT Girls on Film festival last night. The festival is a touring programme by the Japan Foundation that promotes contemporary Japanese cinema and sometimes by women in the foreground. The unique collection is only showing in five cinemas during February and March, so it’s a real cinematic treat that the QFT are offering. With more than a modest Filmography in both directing and writing, Jun Ichikawa seems the perfect choice to open with, and the film is one of the most interesting studies of society I’ve seen in a long time.
BY LAURA SHEARER
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
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NEWS: Hella Alikuru to speak on Thursday 4th March for Fairtrade Fortnight
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Mrs Hella Alikuru from (IUF) International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers, Nairobi, Kenya, will speak as part of Fairtrade Fortnight at QUB. She advises the trade unions/workers on their participation and their rights within the Fairtrade system.
She will be delivering a talk on Thursday 4th March at 5pm in the Enterprise Unit in the Students’ Union closely followed by a Question and Answer session. Refreshments including Fairtrade Tea and Coffee will be provided.
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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
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
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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
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