Archive for category: ‘Weekend’

Andrew Haigh’s 2011 film

Gay movies Bret Ellis finds not “condescending”    (2013.07.17)

Weekend, yes, but guess what else?

‘Plague’/‘Weekend’    (2013.07.04)

I was wrong about Weekend; everybody else is wrong about Keep the Lights On

‘Weekend’ update    (2012.08.23)

Update on Messrs. CULLEN and NEW of Weekend

‘Weekend’ update    (2012.05.28)

Weekend is coming out on Criterion DVD. Very nice. But tell me something: Given the rare choice between a heterosexualist and a homosexualist male making an equal splash in the same movie, why did Hollywood pick the straight one?

‘Weekend’ update    (2011.10.16)

Let’s catch up with the most acclaimed homosexualist film since Parting Glances, Weekend, written and directed by the graceless Andrew Haigh

‘Weekend’: The ‘universal’ gay movie    (2011.09.08)

Andrew Haigh continues to insist Weekend is some kind of “universal” movie. It isn’t. And no amount of mythmaking is gonna make straight guys watch this thing

Andrew Haigh begins counter-counternarrative    (2011.08.24)

The horrific dystopian apartment towers in Weekend are sites of quiet beauty, Andrew Haigh says – curiously enough, after I said the opposite

Yes, if I were Andrew Haigh, that’s the quote I’d have run with, too    (2011.08.19)

I would have run Tony Scott’s quote in the Weekend trailer, too. Andrew Haigh and I aren’t stupid

‘I’ve played very masculine high-status guys’    (2011.07.21)

“I’ve played very masculine high-status guys,” claims Tom Cullen of Weekend. Also: Sexuality doesn’t matter