Coupled

It’s been a bit qui­et up here at Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers over the last few days, most­ly because our two most recent and pro­lif­ic con­trib­u­tors — Haydn and Tom — have been work­ing flat out on their entry for this year’s 48 Hour Film Chal­lenge.

Their hard work has has result­ed in ‘Cou­pled’ — co-writ­ten by Hadyn and star­ring Tom, and which will screen at 5.45pm tonight (Tus­day 30 May) at the Regent Cin­e­ma.

No doubt the claims of ‘cin­e­mat­ic bril­liance’ are well found­ed, so get along to enjoy this, and the oth­er qual­i­ty and not-so-qual­i­ty pieces of film-mak­ing whipped up in your fair city over the week­end.

For a full list of screen­ing times head over to the offi­cial 48 Hours web­site.

(And for more Welling­ton-based 48 hours blog­ging action, check out Talula and Che Tib­by (the lat­ter being anoth­er mem­ber of the Cou­pled team.))

Wellington Film Society for May

Whoa… it’s May already & I have neglect­ed to men­tion the won­der­ful Welling­ton Film Soci­ety even once this year! So… with­out fur­ther ado, here is what is com­ing up next month. In the words of the illus­tri­ous pres­i­dent, David Lind­say… Hi All, May sees the con­clu­sion of the Jean-Luc Godard ret­ro­spec­tive, made pos­si­ble by the […]

King Kong Premiere Red Carpet Screening looms

Well, the weath­er fore­cast does­n’t look too flash — “Often cloudy, odd show­er. Humid with light winds” — but we sus­pect that won’t stop thou­sands of peo­ple head­ing down to Courte­nay Place tomor­row after­noon (Wed 14 Dec) for the offi­cial NZ pre­miere red car­pet screen­ing of King Kong. A few roads in the vicin­i­ty are […]

Final Wellington Film Society Update for the Year

Thanks to David Lind­say, WFS Pres­i­dent, for send­ing these notices through­out the year. Poster Sale How many times, when you have been to the Welling­ton Film Fes­ti­val, have you wished you could have one of the posters that were on dis­play in the foy­ers — even some of those that were mount­ed on card. Well […]

Lachii @ Paramount: 27 November

One for all you film and music enthu­si­asts out there (and more espe­cial­ly if you’re both): Lachii — the sin­­gle-shot film by Ed Davis with accom­pa­ny­ing live music by HDU’s Tris­tan Dinge­mans (aka Kahu) — is hav­ing a pub­lic screen­ing at the Para­mount this Sun­day night (Novem­ber 27) at 9:30pm ($15/$10). From the blurb… Lachii […]

Of Importance to the Paramount?

I just want­ed to man­gle that last title sor­ry. but if Playsta­tion 3 comes with a free pop­corn mak­er, I’ll wager that it’s all over.… …The cin­e­ma indus­try has been whing­ing at the down­turn in cin­e­ma tick­et sales for the last few years, and the advent of High Def­i­n­i­tion TV & DVD isn’t going to […]

Of Paramount Importance

While oth­er mem­bers of the Welling­ton­ista debate triv­ial issues such as road­ing, the non car-own­ing amongst us think it’s time to address the more impor­tant things in life, such as the Para­mount ren­o­va­tions. This isn’t a post to talk about the two new the­atres (one with couch­es), or the glo­ri­ous big bal­coney, oh no. It’s […]

Wellington Film Society for November

Wel­come to our final month of the 2005 sea­son. The whole month (if we can include Mon­day 31 October)features the work of Ger­man film pro­duc­er Artur Brauner. Arguably the most influ­en­tial film pro­duc­er of post-war Ger­many, he was also dri­ven to pro­duce films about vic­tims of the Nation­al Social­ist regime (when the Nazis invad­ed Lódz, […]

The New Zealand Film Archive

This lunchtime, I popped down­stairs & around the cor­ner from the Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers, to the NZ Film Archive & spent a fas­ci­nat­ing wee while brows­ing their cat­a­logue of VCRs & DVDs. I tried pick­ing the brain of the tech­ni­cian on duty in the Media Library, but he was just reliev­ing & had sketchy infor­ma­tion at […]

Wellington Film Society for September

Sep­tem­ber was sup­posed to be the sec­ond and con­clud­ing month of the Welling­ton Film Soci­ety sea­son of French films that “got away”. But two of the sched­uled films did just that and we have had to find replace­ments. FORGET ME has been replaced by anoth­er French film from the same source, NIGHT SHIFT, but for […]