This week has been hectic with Uni work, the radio show and of course Belfast Film Festival. They have been amazing the past week organising interviews and press screenings for me.
Kicking off with Killing Bono on Monday - WOW!
Fantastic film with an outstanding performance from local actor Marty McCann and music by the brilliant Joe Echo.The film is released today (Friday) all over the UK so be sure to go see it and support not only Northern Irish talent but the Northern Ireland film industry.
Interviews this week included:
Terry George
In the Name of the Father.. Hotel Rwanda & Reservation Road
(Oscar Nominated)
Nick Hamm
Killing Bono Director
Martin McCann
Killing Bono, Whole Lotta Sole, The Pacific, Closing the Ring
(Best Leading Actor - IFTA 2011)
Brian Henry Martin
Festival Chair of Belfast Film Festival
All interviews will be available on You Tube/SoundCloud as a podcast of The Culture Show - Queens Radio
Kabosh @ Belfast Film Festival
Raiders of the Lost Story Arc
In 1978 three bearded men called Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan met in room somewhere in LA. For 5 days they talked, after 5 days they had their story straight. Raiders of the Lost Ark was born...
Belfast Film Festival and Kabosh have collaborated to create an original piece of theatre based on the transcript of these meetings.
Some background... Lucas had just released Star Wars, the biggest film in the history of Hollywood and a cult phenomenon. Spielberg had just released Close Encounters of the Third Kind and before that, Jaws. Now unknown screenwriter Kasdan was called in by the biggest names in Hollywood to talk about their next blockbuster.
Raiders of the Lost Story Arc tells us a lot about the making of a classic film, it also shows what could have been; can you imagine Peter Falk as Indy?, Could the name Indiana Smith and Raiders of the Lost Ark have been a blockbuster? And what about that camel chase?
George: What can he chase them with? What if he jumps on a camel?
Steven: I love it. It’s a great idea. There’s never been a camel chase before.
Lawrence: Is this camel going to chase a car?
Steven: You know how fast a camel can run? Not only that, he can jump over vegetable carts and things. It could be a funny chase that ends in tragedy. You’re laughing your head off and suddenly, “My God, she’s dead.”
Created and directed by Stephen Hackett and Paula McFetridge, performed by Paul Kennedy, Frankie McCafferty and Alan McKee. Come along and see how a cinema classic was created in this World premiere theatrical dramatisation
£7.00 / £9.00
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