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

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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

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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 […]