In Film and Fiction
- Featured in 2002 film "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," Pirrie Park used as setting for 'The Battle of Helms Deep.'
- The 2008 film, City of Ember, used the School and in particular the Whitla Hall as a filming location.
- In the BBC's modern adaptation of Cinderella, McArthur Hall was used as a filming location.
- In the 2008 film, Miss Conception, McArthur Hall is used as the setting for a nunnery.
- The 2011 novel, Popular is set in a fictional co-educational Belfast grammar school which is situated at the top of the Malone Road.
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Famous quotes containing the words film and/or fiction:
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
—Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)