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In September 1935, comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy penned an advice column for aspiring comedians in an anniversary edition of The Hollywood Reporter. The duo, who starred in dozens of slapstick features together, also had a few sarcastic tips for how comedians should handle public relations and deal with producers. Their full column is here.
Like a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close commands the center of The Wife: still, formidable and impossible to look away from.
Playing the devoted wife of a celebrated novelist (Jonathan Pryce), and the keeper of his deepest, darkest secret, the actress gives one of the richest, most riveting and complicated performances of her career. Close is so extraordinary — at once charming and inscrutable, alternately warm and withering, tender but full of contained fury — that she lifts an otherwise ordinary movie; thanks to her, the film's slightly on-the-nose satire of the literary world and its somewhat familiar portrait of a problematic marriage take on a gnawing urgency.
Directed by Swedish filmmaker Bjorn Runge (Daybreak) and adapted by Jane Anderson from Meg Wolitzer's novel, The Wife opens in 1992. Joe and Joan Castleman are in their Connecticut home, trying, and failing, to fall asleep. The reason for their restlessness: Joe has been tipped to win the Nobel Prize in literature, and they're hoping for an early-morning call from the committee. As they toss and turn, teasing each other and fooling around, the film establishes the ticklish, exasperated intimacy of a happily long-married couple.
The phone rings: Joe has indeed won the Nobel. At a party to celebrate the news, Joe's agent informs the Castlemans that a major magazine is "bumping a story about Bill Clinton" to make room for a piece on Joe. The mention of the Clinton name is hardly incidental. Razor-sharp, disciplined and stoic (she barely flinches at Joe's affairs), Joan is above all the dutiful guardian of her husband's "brand" — and distinctly reminiscent of a certain presidential candidate who struggled to free herself from the shackles of her husband's stature (and ego).
One can imagine that had she never pursued her own political career, Hillary Clinton might have ended up like Joan Castleman. The filmmakers intersperse the action with flashbacks to 1958, showing us a 20-ish Joan (Annie Starke) at Smith, where she's the star pupil in a creative writing class taught by dashing young professor and budding novelist Joe Castleman (Harry Lloyd). You know how this story goes: Dazzled by her talent and beauty, Joe seduces Joan; they have an affair, and he leaves his wife and baby to marry her. Joan abandons her ambitions when she realizes that writing, in the 1960s, is basically a male game — and when she senses the threat her own gift poses to the fragile self-esteem of the man she loves.
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“My name is Claudine, I live in Montigny; I was born there in 1884; I shall probably not die there.” So begins Claudine at School, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s debut novel. It would be years before anyone knew Colette was responsible for this famous opening line. At the time, Colette’s husband, a notorious libertine 15 years her senior, took credit for her writing. But the Claudine books were entirely Colette's.
"The KLFC committee is very excited to have been able to donate a "big screen" to the school. We are grateful that the faculty and students at Fenelon Falls Secondary School have partnered with us on our film series for the past five years and wanted to show our support back to them, at the same time giving a gift of a better theatrical experience to our Films by the Falls audience."
“This is a story so rarely seen in film, one about a woman over 40 finding her true self. Agnes is a suburban woman who has spent her entire life attending to her father, husband, and sons until she discovers - in the most unlikely of ways - her own voice. I grew up in New Jersey with a mother who doted on her husband and son and didn’t get to live the life she would have liked to live. To discover such a story in a screenplay as powerful as this was irresistible.”
Marc Turtletaub. Director’s Statement about his film “PUZZLE”.
The world premiere of Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Farm on Foot took place at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018. A film based on the memoir of the same name by John Callahan.
Director Gus Van Sant originally planned to make this movie in the 1990s, with Robin Williams starring as John Callahan.
The Kawartha Lakes Film Circuit is very proud to be back sharing films from the TIFF Film Circuit for a 5th year.
Our Season Premiere film “Hearts Beat Loud”, will kick-off our 2018-2019 movie series: Films by the Falls on Tuesday, September 25th at the Fenelon Falls Secondary School.
Have a look at our Events listings for a sneak peak and more information about the film. Check back often to see upcoming events.
On January 9th, 2014, the newly formed Kawartha Lakes Film Circuit hosted an “Information Night”, at the local coffeeshop, Sweetbottoms Cafe, in downtown Fenelon Falls.
The response from the community was outstanding. The cafe was packed.
