WEEKEND (2011)

#1

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 10/13/12 at 10:30pm

Maybe the best gay movie I have ever seen. The trailer makes it look common, but, oh its sooooooo not. Absolutely not to be missed.

I am not a movie-weeper, but this one got to me. Bring kleenex.
WEEKEND trailer

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#2

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 10/13/12 at 10:34pm

This played at a film festival in San Francisco a few months ago but I couldn't get the day off. I really, really want to see this!

I've heard great reviews.

#3

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 10/13/12 at 10:44pm

It's really wonderful. I wish nothing but the best for Tom Cullen and Chris New's film careers.

#4

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 10/14/12 at 2:35am

For those who haven't seen it, it's on Netflix instant.

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#5

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 10/14/12 at 2:55am

Of course it is! My old, old computer won't play the newest version of Silverlight.

I'm saving up for a new one.

#6

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 10/14/12 at 10:29am

Just bought it on Criterion Blu-Ray (have yet to see it on this format) but saw it last year on Netflix and it was easily my favorite film of 2011. It features the most realistic portrayal of gay romance I've ever seen in a movie (though HAPPY TOGETHER is equally fascinating), the acting is superb and I just love the dialogue and the way it's all done. I couldn't recommend it more, one of my all time favorites after only watching it once, it's that powerful.

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#7

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 10/14/12 at 4:31pm

A fine film, moving in all the best ways. It deserves a wider audience. I'll agree it is one of the finest, if not THE finest, film yet made about gay men.

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#8

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 1:49pm

I can't believe it took me this long to finally see this.
Had I seen it 2011 it would have unquestionably been my favorite film of the year.

What an absolutely beautiful experience.

I don't think I can capture how moved I was by Tom Cullen.
It's one of the finest performances I've seen in years.

The end was a bit of a tearjerker, but I found it much more hopeful than sad.

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#9

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 2:49pm

It really is a great movie. I wonder if the polarizing reaction to Looking (co-created by its writer/director,) has caused it to be regarded differently.

#10

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 4:26pm

^you mean like depreciating The Sixth Sense because one's seen Lady in the Water?

#11

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 4:29pm

One of my favorite films and definitely one of the best LGBT related films out there.

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#12

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 4:40pm

A beautiful little masterpiece.

#13

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 4:51pm

I thoroughly dislike LOOKING, but even years later cannot get WEEKEND off my mind. I have seen it a bunch of times on Criterion, have written about it, and recommend it to everyone. It's such a haunting movie, and I have yet to see something that I feel captures what actual gay men are like. I wish Haig was making movies instead of being preoccupied with LOOKING.

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"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#14

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 5:13pm

Ditto everything you just said. I loathe Looking but Weekend is in my top five films of all time. So subtle, so romantic, so heart wrenching. And the Criteron Blu is terrific.

#15

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 8:49pm

Contradictory Cathy, here. I was brunching with some gays earlier today and - perhaps inevitably for a group of 20 and 30-something gays - the conversation eventually found its way to LOOKING (via AMERICAN SNIPER -> Groff). Completely unscientific survey, but there were 6 of us in attendance. 4 of us were big fans of LOOKING, the other 2 couldn't stand the show. The 2 who couldn't stand LOOKING were big fans of WEEKEND. And the 4 of us who loved LOOKING found WEEKEND interminably dull.

#16

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 11:08pm

I understand why people love the movie, and I give it credit for realism in a world where realistic gay men appear to never be portrayed, but I still find this movie to just be really dull and boring. It has its moments though.

#17

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/8/15 at 11:42pm

Haigh's follow-up premiered in Berlin days ago. It's called 45 Years and stars Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Rampling is getting out of this world raves.

#18

WEEKEND (2011)

Posted: 2/9/15 at 1:45am

Now THAT^ I'd be interested in seeing.