Richard Curtis – Fusion Nepal

Each December, we bust out the holiday cheer, from obnoxious Christmas music to Love Actually on a loop. I’m all about this — I usually leave my tree up until my January birthday — but I start with a different movie: About Time.

From Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis, About Time is comparatively trimmed down, following the life of Tim (Domhnall Gleeson), the young son in a family where the men can travel through time. There are no other sci-fi frills (and probably some plot holes as a result, but who cares!), since as Tim’s father (Bill Nighy) notes, they can’t change anything outside their own lives. Read more…

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This clip of Richard Curtis talking about rom-coms will remind you that love, actually, is all around us.

The screenwriter of all your favourite classic romantic comedies — Notting Hill, Love Actually, Bridget Jones’ Diary, and Four Weddings and a Funeral — talked about the need for films that reflect the good in the world.

In the viral interview — conducted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy for Channel 4 — Curtis said he was “suspicious” of the “romanticisation of bad things” and said he believes that humans’ susceptibility to do good in the world far outweighs the bad. Read more…

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