Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow’s Canvas magazine. Get your premium glossy weekend magazine in tomorrow’s Weekend Herald.
The past couple of years have been big for one of our best known film-makers. Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu, The Quiet Earth) was made an icon of the arts by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, followed by a Moa for lifetime achievement at the annual film awards, the awarding of an ONZM, and, finally, an honorary doctorate in literature from Massey University. It's all capped off with the release of his autobiography, A Life On Film, which is released next week.
His is a fascinating story, and he sat down with deputy editor Greg Dixon at his Wellington home last week to talk about the madness of working in Hollywood, making films in New Zealand, and why Peter Jackson is "a billionaire and I'm not".
Also, this week we meet the woman who invented "conscious uncoupling", the term made famous by Gwyneth Paltrow when she and husband Chris Martin split last year. Katherine Woodward Thomas offers some sage advice to negotiating the end of a romantic relationship with goodwill and respect - in a way that enriches rather than wrecks lives. We have the full story in tomorrow's Canvas Magazine.
Plus, for all Lynda La Plante fans - and there are millions worldwide - great news! The thriller writer is bringing back her most famous detective, Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison. It's a prequel to Prime Suspect and a terrific read! The book has already been optioned for a television series.
