The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2011
The year’s cinematic highlights according to our editors and contributors.
The year’s cinematic highlights according to our editors and contributors.
The Auckland-based music ensemble’s latest concert of selected works by New Zealand composers.
Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley Confidential reunites readers with Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, covergirls of the ubiquitous Sweet Valley High romance novels. Now ten years older, are the twins and their stories any wiser?
As ominous clouds gathered both on and off the screen at the New Zealand International Film Festival, nothing could deny the quality of cinema, nor for that matter the event’s staying power and relevance.
This week at the Wellington Film Society: The heart of Europe; Lubitsch’s touch.
The director of The Unpolished confronts the dilemmas of ageing and belonging in her unpredictable new film.
This week at the Wellington Film Society: Brazil in the spotlight.
New Zealand Opera present Pietro Mascagani and Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
This week at the Wellington Film Society: The weight of history; the power of language.
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Duty, morality, and class intersect.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Julia Leigh’s erroneously marketed “erotic thriller”; plus, Ayrton Senna’s fast times.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Raúl Ruiz’s sprawling, magisterial epic.
The director of The House of the Devil continues to finesse the horror genre with his latest throwback.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, reflections on the beginning and end of things.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The Windies’ blaze of glory.
The affable documentarian famous for an all-McDonald’s diet turns his attention to the world of product placement in movies.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Ceylan’s rich, contemplative crime movie.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Miike’s ferocious swashbuckler; Ghibli’s latest animated triumph.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Gangsters and floozies in the Congolese Republic.