Paul White

Catching up with Joy Williams and John Paul White of The Civil Wars at the GRAMMY Rehearsals. Tune into The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Sunday, Feb. 12 at 8/7c. Only CBS!

Catching up with Joy Williams and John Paul White of The Civil Wars at the GRAMMY Rehearsals. Tune into The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Sunday, Feb. 12 at 8/7c. Only CBS!

From gifted actor-turned-director Jalil Lespert, Against the Wind (Des vents contraires) is a radiant, emotional and superbly realised story of one father's challenge to keep his family together. One morning, Sarah (Audrey Tautou) vanishes, leaving her husband Paul (Little White Lies' Benoit Magimel) and their young son and daughter reeling, without a word as to her whereabouts or a clue about when she will return. As time passes, Paul anxiously but tenderly tries to sustain some sense of normalcy and after a year, in an attempt to start over, he reluctantly returns to his coastal home town. There, he takes a job as a driving instructor, reunites with his estranged brother and befriends a local police officer (Isabelle Carr ). But still he dreams of Sarah, refusing to let go. Why did she leave, and will she return? Based on a best-selling novel by Oliver Adam (the cowriter of Philippe Lioret's Welcome), Against the Wind is a deeply moving family drama with immense depth and heart.

Second trailer for Paul Goodman Changed My Life. Called 'the most influential man you've never heard of,' Paul Goodman was a stern but confidence-inspiring social critic, a poet (and regular at Black Mountain), an out-of-the-closet queer (in 40s America!), family man, anarchist and public intellectual whose writings and philosophy of life had a resounding impact on all who met him. Growing Up Absurd (1960) is his most famous work--and newly relevant to the recent riots in London and Vancouver--but the range of his writings is quite simply amazing. Jonathan Lee's documentary captures the power of the man and his ideas through interviews with family, peers and activists whose encounters with Goodman changed their lives. Rich archival footage and readings by Goodman and others (including Garrison Keillor, Edmund White and the Living Theater's Judith Malina) from his published works and private journals testify to the scope of his learning and influence, as well as his larger-than-life personality. A kind of forefather to the Beats, he made his stamp on the 60's and notably participated at the famous 1967 Dialectics of Liberation conference in London, which is the subject of discussion at events planned at SFU and the Vancity Theatre in November.