Features & Reviews

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Jim Marbrook on
Mental Notes
Acknowledging New Zealand’s atrocious history in mental health care through documentary and testimony.
Margaret’s Human Condition
Kenneth Lonergan’s all-too-human drama, a film as mercurial as it is masterful.
Berlinale 2012:
Last Words + Dispatches from the Frontline
NINA FOWLER reflects on her time—and the many movies queued for—at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Germaine Greer; Bon Iver, Death Cab for Cutie, First Aid Kit; Hamish Clayton, Eleanor Catton; The Winter’s Tale, Henry V
Coverage from Wellington’s New Zealand International Arts Festival.
Blonde and Blonder:
The Cultural Legacy of Sweet Valley High
Sweet Valley Confidential reunites readers with the Wakefields, covergirls of the then-ubiquitous high school romance. Now ten years older, asks MEGAN DUNN, are the twins and their stories any wiser?.
The Best of Film in 2011
Take Shelter, Mysteries of Lisbon, The Orator, Meek’s Cutoff—the year’s cinematic highlights according to our editors and contributors.
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.