9th Jameson Belfast Film Festival
9th Jameson Belfast Film Festival
Have I Got News for You TV star and movie buff Paul Merton is launching his 'Silent Clowns' Spring Tour as part of the 9th Jameson Belfast Film Festival on 3rd April 2009 at Movie House, Yorkgate, Belfast.
Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Harold Lloyd and many others are presented by Paul, whose infectious enthusiasm and knowledge of these films means a splendid time is guaranteed for all. And then, Buster Keaton’s uproariously funny Steamboat Bill Junior is shown in its entirety with fantastic live accompaniment by world renowned pianist Neil Brand.
Sadly, there will be no dirve-in movies at the paint hall in the old Harland and Wolff shipyard this year. The huge building is in use as the studio setting for a new movie to be released next year.
The Belfast Film Festival has something for everyone. as well as the special events, there’s new Irish cinema, world cinema, documentaries, ‘same-sex’ cinema, sound and vision, Nick and Joe’s ‘Bad Film Club’ and classic movies. There are also two Ireland premieres; Little Ashes, the early life of artist Salvador Dali in the presence of members of the cast opens the festival on March 26th. Fifty Dead Men Walking, the story of RUC Special Branch informer Martin McGartland closes the festival on April 4th.
Festival Director, Michele Devlin, explains: “As the Belfast Film Festival grows each year, we are so proud of the fact that, as well as a strong selection of international and European films, we are able to showcase a burgeoning wealth of local film-making and acting talent.
“We have the eagerly awaited premieres of first features, the locally-made Cherrybomb and Ditching.. We are also proud to be screening ‘Pumpgirl’ starring local talent Samantha Healey and Geraldine Hughes.”
New additions to the programme this year, will include the ‘Jameson Sound and Vision’ strand, which will celebrate the role that music plays in film. These events will include renditions of the soundtrack to O, Brother, Where Art Thou? by local bands and a screening of the Lon Chaney silent classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame to a live score in St. Anne’s Cathedral.Local singer Brigid O’Neill will bring live renditions of Doris Day’s best loved songs to the Black Box accompained by clips from some of her best-remembered films.
There will also be the ‘Spotlight on India’ which will welcome Indian film-maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who will host a panel discussion and present some of his films.
A highlight for me will be the screening of three Ealing classic comediies at the Strand Cinema in East Belfast staring the incomparable Alec Guinness. In Kind Hearts and Coronets, Alec Guinness plays eight members of the D’Ascoyne family alongside Denis Price. In The Man in the White Suit, Guinness plays the inventor of a new fabric that never gets dirty or wears out. In The Ladykillers, Guinness, Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom play a gang of crooks who live with an elderly landlady who believes they are muscicians.
Copies of the packed 88-page festival programme can be had at most libraries, the Belfast Welcome Centre and the Festival offices at 25 Donegall Street, Belfast. You can buy tickets at the Welcome Centre, online at www.belfastfilmfestival.org or by phone on 028 9024 6609. Beware though, that there will be a surcharge of £1.25 on all credit and debit card bookings. .
Have I Got News for You TV star and movie buff Paul Merton is launching his 'Silent Clowns' Spring Tour as part of the 9th Jameson Belfast Film Festival on 3rd April 2009 at Movie House, Yorkgate, Belfast.
Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Harold Lloyd and many others are presented by Paul, whose infectious enthusiasm and knowledge of these films means a splendid time is guaranteed for all. And then, Buster Keaton’s uproariously funny Steamboat Bill Junior is shown in its entirety with fantastic live accompaniment by world renowned pianist Neil Brand.
Sadly, there will be no dirve-in movies at the paint hall in the old Harland and Wolff shipyard this year. The huge building is in use as the studio setting for a new movie to be released next year.
The Belfast Film Festival has something for everyone. as well as the special events, there’s new Irish cinema, world cinema, documentaries, ‘same-sex’ cinema, sound and vision, Nick and Joe’s ‘Bad Film Club’ and classic movies. There are also two Ireland premieres; Little Ashes, the early life of artist Salvador Dali in the presence of members of the cast opens the festival on March 26th. Fifty Dead Men Walking, the story of RUC Special Branch informer Martin McGartland closes the festival on April 4th.
Festival Director, Michele Devlin, explains: “As the Belfast Film Festival grows each year, we are so proud of the fact that, as well as a strong selection of international and European films, we are able to showcase a burgeoning wealth of local film-making and acting talent.
“We have the eagerly awaited premieres of first features, the locally-made Cherrybomb and Ditching.. We are also proud to be screening ‘Pumpgirl’ starring local talent Samantha Healey and Geraldine Hughes.”
New additions to the programme this year, will include the ‘Jameson Sound and Vision’ strand, which will celebrate the role that music plays in film. These events will include renditions of the soundtrack to O, Brother, Where Art Thou? by local bands and a screening of the Lon Chaney silent classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame to a live score in St. Anne’s Cathedral.Local singer Brigid O’Neill will bring live renditions of Doris Day’s best loved songs to the Black Box accompained by clips from some of her best-remembered films.
There will also be the ‘Spotlight on India’ which will welcome Indian film-maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who will host a panel discussion and present some of his films.
A highlight for me will be the screening of three Ealing classic comediies at the Strand Cinema in East Belfast staring the incomparable Alec Guinness. In Kind Hearts and Coronets, Alec Guinness plays eight members of the D’Ascoyne family alongside Denis Price. In The Man in the White Suit, Guinness plays the inventor of a new fabric that never gets dirty or wears out. In The Ladykillers, Guinness, Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom play a gang of crooks who live with an elderly landlady who believes they are muscicians.
Copies of the packed 88-page festival programme can be had at most libraries, the Belfast Welcome Centre and the Festival offices at 25 Donegall Street, Belfast. You can buy tickets at the Welcome Centre, online at www.belfastfilmfestival.org or by phone on 028 9024 6609. Beware though, that there will be a surcharge of £1.25 on all credit and debit card bookings. .
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