Napier University Film Society hosts regular movie screenings and committee meetings in Edinburgh.
It’s for students and Edinburgh residents with an interest in less well known, quality films — more so of the independent variety. It’s not only for Filmhouse and Cameo regulars, but anybody who would like to widen their cinema experience beyond the Edinburgh multiplexes.
We host weekly Film Nights, special event screenings, and society parties. So if you’re fed up with going to the mainstream cinemas on your own or you found yourself more taken by Amelié than Charlie’s Angels, come and join the Napier University Film Society!
Any Edinburgh resident or Napier University students/alumni are welcome to come to one of our meetings or events to see what we do. If you decide to join the society a small membership fee is required, which will go towards an events fund, but you are welcome to attend one event without committing to membership.
Once you are a member, all events are (of course) optional, and jobs within the society are voluntary. If you’re interested, just get in touch and we’ll go from there!
The main points of what we can offer:
- We’re one of the best and largest student-run non-sports societies at NU
- You get to see independent films around Edinburgh with like-minded, unpretentious cinema fanatics
- You’re entitled to NUFS-specific discounts at selected cinemas
- The chance to be a part of the Society Committees (good experience/CV fodder) at the AGM
- Film Nights all year round (usually weekly)
- Special event screenings i.e. Halloween and Christmas
- End-of-term parties!
- We’re all really friendly and welcoming… whether you’re an indie virgin or an experienced multiplex-avoider, there are all levels of interest within the membership ranks!
To learn more, enquiries about the society should be sent to: nufs@napier.ac.uk
They went to see brick last night. I went for the meeting and the nuts (snigger). Then I went home and watched a decent movie.
Film Description -
Brick, the dynamic debut feature from writer/director Rian Johnson, won the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision. Brick, while taking its cues and its verbal style from the novels of Dashiell Hammett, also honors the rich cinematic tradition of the hard-boiled noir mystery, here wittily and bracingly immersed in fresh territory - a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school. There, student Brendan Frye's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) piercing intelligence spares no one. Brendan is not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily (Emilie de Ravin of Lost), reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. Brendan's feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, Brendan enlists the aid of his only true peer, The Brain (Matt O'Leary), while keeping the assistant vice principal (Richard Roundtree) only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura (Nora Zehetner), intimidating Tugger (Noah Fleiss), substance-abusing Dode (Noah Segan), seductive Kara (Meagan Good), jock Brad (Brian White) and - most ominously - non-student The Pin (Lukas Haas). It is only by gaining acceptance into The Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to.
Well, only Pete, myself and Madeleine turned up. We ended up going to see Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. I feel like I should've taken notes. Who'da thought that Metal had such a history and that there's so many sub-genres?
Film Description -
Sam Dunn is a 30-year old anthropologist who wrote his graduate thesis on the plight of Guatemalan refugees. Recenly he has decided to study the plight of a different culture, one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its millions of fans. Along the way, Sam explores metals' obsession with some of life's most provacative subjects - sexuality, religion, violence and death - and discovers some things about the culture that even he can't defend. Shot on location in the UK, Germany, Norway, Canada and the US, this documentary is the first of its kind. It is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.
Well we went to see Paradise Now. I quite enjoyed it.
Film Description -
In Nablas on the West Bank, Said and Khaled, who have volunteered to be suicide bombers, receive word it will be tomorrow - the cell's first operation in two years. They're shaven and shorn, in black suits to pose as settlers in Tel Aviv for a wedding. Something goes wrong at the crossing, they're separated, and the action is postponed, long enough for renewed questioning of what they're about to do. Suha, the well-educated and well-traveled daughter of a martyr, challenges the action. She likes Said and has her own ideas. "Under the occupation, we're already dead," is Khaled's analysis. Fate and God's will seem to drive Said. We must be moral, argues Suha. Can minds change?
