Features & Reviews
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- Distractions and Denouements: Final Thoughts on NZIFF 2011
- As ominous clouds gathered both on and off the screen, nothing could deny the quality of cinema, nor for that matter the festival’s staying power and relevance.
- Interviews: Pia Marais, Ti West, Morgan Spurlock, Errol Morris, Sophie Fiennes, Miranda July
- BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM chats with the directors of At Ellen’s Age, The Innkeepers, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Tabloid, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow and The Future.
- Park Kiyong on Moving
- The Korean filmmaker talks to ZHOU TING-FUNG about his response to the Christchurch earthquakes.
- Lost and Found in America: Meek’s Cutoff
- TIM WONG discusses Kelly Reichardt’s remarkable new film and talks to actress Shirley Henderson about its making.
- Fatima Bhutto,
Paul Gilding + Christchurch - CHRISTINE LINNELL interviews the authors of Songs of Blood and Sword and The Great Disruption; plus, writers on their hopes for Canterbury.
- Artists in Print: A Micronaut in the Wide World, Fantastica
- LOUISE WALLACE on the life and times of Graham Percy and Leo Bensemann.
- A Man Walks Out of a Bar
- ABBY CUNNANE considers Lucien Rizos’s photographic document of small town New Zealand between 1979-82.
- Film
- Brannavan Gnanalingam: Film Society, A Separation, Mysteries of Lisbon, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Mana Waka, Boxing Gym, Outtakes, The Fontaínhas Trilogy.
- Jacob Powell: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, The Last Circus, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Love Story.
- Steve Garden: Post-NZIFF Report, Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.
- Tim Wong: 13 Assassins, Arrietty, These Kids Are All Right, Attenberg, My Joy, Pedro Costa, Wendy and Lucy, White Meadows, The New World, Into Eternity, TIFF + NZIFF 2010.
- Books
- Alexander Bisley: Hendrik Hertzberg.
- Christine Linnell: Adrian Wooldridge, Michael Otterman, Bryan Bruce.
- Music
- Rachael Morgan: 175 East, NZTrio.
- Samuel Holloway: Cav and Pag, Cantatas and Chorales, From Brandenburg to Bartók, Xerxes.
- Theatre
- Uther Dean: The Current Theatre.
- Visual Arts
- Andy Palmer: Crombie to Burton, Peter Siddell, John Pule, Vincent Ward.
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- The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2011 - 175 East (November 18, 2011)
- Blonde and Blonder: The Cultural Legacy of Sweet Valley High
- Distractions and Denouements:
Final Thoughts on NZIFF 2011 - Die Mitte (The Centre, 2003);
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - Pia Marais on At Ellen’s Age
- The Story of Me (2009)
- Cav and Pag
- The Woman with the Five Elephants (2009)
- Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 3:
Still Lives - Fraught Families: Elena, A Separation
- Sexuality and Speed:
Sleeping Beauty, Senna - The Remembrance of Things Past:
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