The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2011
December 31, 2011
The year’s cinematic highlights according to our editors and contributors.
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The Year in Review:
175 East (November 18, 2011)
November 25, 2011
The Auckland-based music ensemble’s latest concert of selected works by New Zealand composers.
Blonde and Blonder: The Cultural Legacy of Sweet Valley High
November 11, 2011
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?
Distractions and Denouements:
Final Thoughts on NZIFF 2011
October 24, 2011
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.
Die Mitte (The Centre, 2003);
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
October 5, 2011
This week at the Wellington Film Society: The heart of Europe; Lubitsch’s touch.
Pia Marais on At Ellen’s Age
September 26, 2011
The director of The Unpolished confronts the dilemmas of ageing and belonging in her unpredictable new film.
The Story of Me (2009)
September 21, 2011
This week at the Wellington Film Society: Brazil in the spotlight.
Cav and Pag
September 20, 2011
New Zealand Opera present Pietro Mascagani and Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
The Woman with the Five Elephants (2009)
September 6, 2011
This week at the Wellington Film Society: The weight of history; the power of language.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 3:
Still Lives
August 26, 2011
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Fraught Families: Elena, A Separation
August 25, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Duty, morality, and class intersect.
Sexuality and Speed:
Sleeping Beauty, Senna
August 19, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Julia Leigh’s erroneously marketed “erotic thriller”; plus, Ayrton Senna’s fast times.
The Remembrance of Things Past:
Mysteries of Lisbon
August 14, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Raúl Ruiz’s sprawling, magisterial epic.
Ti West on The Innkeepers
August 12, 2011
The director of The House of the Devil continues to finesse the horror genre with his latest throwback.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 2:
Life, Love and Death
August 11, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, reflections on the beginning and end of things.
Calypso Kings: Fire in Babylon
August 10, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The Windies’ blaze of glory.
Morgan Spurlock on
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
August 9, 2011
The affable documentarian famous for an all-McDonald’s diet turns his attention to the world of product placement in movies.
Time Crimes: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
August 8, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Ceylan’s rich, contemplative crime movie.
Two From Japan: 13 Assassins, Arrietty
August 7, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Miike’s ferocious swashbuckler; Ghibli’s latest animated triumph.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Viva Riva!
August 7, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Gangsters and floozies in the Congolese Republic.