Nick and Meg go to Paris for their 30th anniversary and confront some tricky questions. In his new film, Le Week-End, Hanif Kureishi meditates on the old problem of marriage and desire
Marriage as a problem, and as a solution, has always been the central subject for drama, the novel and the cinema, just as it has been at the centre of our lives. Most of us have come from a marriage, and, probably, a divorce, of some sort. And the kind of questions that surround lengthy relationships – what is it to live with another person for a long time? What do we expect? What do we need? What do we want? What is the relation between safety and excitement, for each of us? – are the most important of our lives. Marriage brings together the most serious things: sex, love, children, betrayal, boredom, frustration, and property.
Le Week-End is a...
Marriage as a problem, and as a solution, has always been the central subject for drama, the novel and the cinema, just as it has been at the centre of our lives. Most of us have come from a marriage, and, probably, a divorce, of some sort. And the kind of questions that surround lengthy relationships – what is it to live with another person for a long time? What do we expect? What do we need? What do we want? What is the relation between safety and excitement, for each of us? – are the most important of our lives. Marriage brings together the most serious things: sex, love, children, betrayal, boredom, frustration, and property.
Le Week-End is a...
- 10/4/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
On August 15, The CW launched CW Seed, a digital studio focused on developing original series on the Web, with the goal of establishing projects that can ideally be ported over to the broadcast network if they connect with an audience.
It's a strategy that's worked well for shows like Lisa Kudrow's "Web Therapy" on Showtime and Adult Swim's "Childrens Hospital," and CW Seed has launched with a diverse array of comedies, like the third season of critically-acclaimed "Husbands"; globetrotting "Backpackers" starring "Nikita's" Dillon Casey; "The P.E.T. Squad Files" produced by "Heroes'" Milo Ventimiglia; and animated "Gallery Mallory," which will feature guest voices from CW stars like Misha Collins, Justin Hartley and Kat Graham.
In an attempt to get over a serious case of cold feet, "Backpackers" finds recently engaged Ryan (Noah Reid) and Beth (Meghan Heffern) embarking on separate European adventures leading up to their wedding.
It's a strategy that's worked well for shows like Lisa Kudrow's "Web Therapy" on Showtime and Adult Swim's "Childrens Hospital," and CW Seed has launched with a diverse array of comedies, like the third season of critically-acclaimed "Husbands"; globetrotting "Backpackers" starring "Nikita's" Dillon Casey; "The P.E.T. Squad Files" produced by "Heroes'" Milo Ventimiglia; and animated "Gallery Mallory," which will feature guest voices from CW stars like Misha Collins, Justin Hartley and Kat Graham.
In an attempt to get over a serious case of cold feet, "Backpackers" finds recently engaged Ryan (Noah Reid) and Beth (Meghan Heffern) embarking on separate European adventures leading up to their wedding.
- 8/24/2013
- by Laura Prudom
- Huffington Post
A Little Bit Zombie
Directed by Casey Walker
Written by Christopher Turner and Trevor Martin
Canada, 2011
A great film is one that seems new ever time you watch it, and although Casey Walker’s Canadian horror comedy, A Little Bit Zombie, isn’t something we’ve never seen before, it nevertheless rises to the level of greatness due to it’s inherent ability to embrace and transcend tired genre conventions. Smart, well crafted, and painfully funny, A Little Bit Zombie not only reanimates the zombie genre, it singlehandedly brings Canadian Cinema back to life.
Unaware of an apparent zombie epidemic, a mild mannered Human Resource manager goes on a family vacation to his cottage with his inescapable Bridezilla-to-be, his indignant sister, and his insolent brother-in-law. After been bitten by an infected mosquito (you read that right), he has to fend off his cerebral eating urges, deal with two antithetical zombie hunters,...
Directed by Casey Walker
Written by Christopher Turner and Trevor Martin
Canada, 2011
A great film is one that seems new ever time you watch it, and although Casey Walker’s Canadian horror comedy, A Little Bit Zombie, isn’t something we’ve never seen before, it nevertheless rises to the level of greatness due to it’s inherent ability to embrace and transcend tired genre conventions. Smart, well crafted, and painfully funny, A Little Bit Zombie not only reanimates the zombie genre, it singlehandedly brings Canadian Cinema back to life.
Unaware of an apparent zombie epidemic, a mild mannered Human Resource manager goes on a family vacation to his cottage with his inescapable Bridezilla-to-be, his indignant sister, and his insolent brother-in-law. After been bitten by an infected mosquito (you read that right), he has to fend off his cerebral eating urges, deal with two antithetical zombie hunters,...
- 4/1/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Fantasia may get most of the attention, but the Canadian Film Fest is another annual event put on by our neighbors to the north devoted to the celebration, promotion, and advancement of filmmaking - only their focus is strictly on homegrown Canadian talent.
One of the most fun showcases of filmmaking talent in the country, the Canadian Film Fest is back with a vengeance this year at Toronto's Royal Cinema running March 28th-31st.
Best of all for horror fans is the news that three new Canadian genre films made the final cut, including dark thriller Below Zero (Thursday, March 29th, 9.55pm), horror chiller The Unleashed (Friday, March 30th, 9.55pm) and Closing Gala zombie comedy A Little Bit Zombie (Saturday, March 31st, 9pm). There's also a number of new Canadian sci-fi shorts playing.
Below Zero Synopsis
Directed By Justin Thomas Ostensen
Written By Signe Olynyk
Cast: Edward Furlong, Michael Berryman,...
One of the most fun showcases of filmmaking talent in the country, the Canadian Film Fest is back with a vengeance this year at Toronto's Royal Cinema running March 28th-31st.
Best of all for horror fans is the news that three new Canadian genre films made the final cut, including dark thriller Below Zero (Thursday, March 29th, 9.55pm), horror chiller The Unleashed (Friday, March 30th, 9.55pm) and Closing Gala zombie comedy A Little Bit Zombie (Saturday, March 31st, 9pm). There's also a number of new Canadian sci-fi shorts playing.
Below Zero Synopsis
Directed By Justin Thomas Ostensen
Written By Signe Olynyk
Cast: Edward Furlong, Michael Berryman,...
- 3/10/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Barbara Chai The orgone accumulator: get in on it.
There was the book, “Adventures in the Orgasmatron” by Christopher Turner, with the questionable cover art of a woman’s nude torso. There was the party celebrating the book’s release, at Cabinet Event Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Then there was, in the middle of the room, an “orgone accumulator” — a wood-and-metal box invented by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich designed to collect sexual energy or life force that he believed to confer healing powers.
There was the book, “Adventures in the Orgasmatron” by Christopher Turner, with the questionable cover art of a woman’s nude torso. There was the party celebrating the book’s release, at Cabinet Event Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Then there was, in the middle of the room, an “orgone accumulator” — a wood-and-metal box invented by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich designed to collect sexual energy or life force that he believed to confer healing powers.
- 6/29/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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