NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (26th) at The Cameo Bar from 6pm. This week’s film will be The Lives Of Others at 8.35. Tickets are £2.
Film Description: “Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s movie debut focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don’t always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more…”
Cheers,
VP Hilary
NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (19th) at The Cameo Bar from 6pm. This week’s film will be Curse of the Golden Flower at 6.20pm. Tickets are £2.
Film Description: “China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress (Gong Li), this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter. Meanwhile, Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress’s health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? The Emperor harbors equally clandestine plans; the Imperial Doctor (Ni Dahong) is the only one privy to his machinations. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor’s family from the Palace to a remote area. While they are en route, mysterious assassins attack them. Chan and her mother, Jiang Shi (Chen Jin) are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dark surprises. Amid the glamour and grandeur of the festival, ugly secrets are revealed. As the Imperial Family continues its elaborate charade in a palatial setting, thousands of golden armored warriors charge the palace. Who is behind this brutal rebellion? Where do Prince Jai’s loyalties lie? Between love and desire, is there a final winner? Against a moonlit night, thousands of chrysanthemum blossoms are trampled as blood spills across the Imperial Palace.”
As usual, we will try to decide which film to see next week at the meeting, but if you can’t make it on Thursday please do email suggestions to nufs@napier.ac.uk. If you’d like to be taken off our mailing list, please email me. I’ve noticed that I’m spamming hundreds of you, but only the committed few keep coming back.
Cheers,
“I really am nice!” Hilary
NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (12th) at The Cameo Bar at 6pm. This week’s film will be Sunshine at 6.45pm. Tickets are £2.
Film Description: “The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible, by turning common matter on its own kind. The only hope is to send a team of astronauts to detonate a massive, highly energetic bomb, able able to destroy this strange matter and restore Sun’s natural state.”
As usual, we will try to decide which film to see next week at the meeting, but if you can’t make it on Thursday please do email suggestions to nufs@napier.ac.uk. If you’d like to be taken off our mailing list, please email me. I’ve noticed that I’m spamming hundreds of you, but only the committed few keep coming back.
Cheers,
“It will be me!” Hilary
Hey guys,
This Thursday (5th April) we’re having a DVD showing at Brass Monkey on Drummond Street from 7pm.
We’re inviting one and all to bring good DVDs you own and we’ll fight it amongst ourselves as to what we watch. There’s no theme on what to bring apart from yourselves, friends and good DVDs.
We’ll be meeting there at the bar from 6pm, then going into the back (wink wink) to watch the films. Here’s a link about the bar itself. For those who aren’t familiar with Edinburgh, Brass Monkey is located on the Bridges , to get there, you can easily get any Lothian Bus that goes down the Bridges, eg the nos 3, 5, 30, 31, 33, 37, 47 and get off at the Festival Theatre.
However, if you have any problems, get a little lost (like I always do), feel free to email us, or phone me on 0780 325 7194.
Looking forward to see you all there!
Hilary & Pete.
