Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 3:
Still Lives
August 26, 2011
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Archives by Month » August 2011
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 3:
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.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 1:
Meat, or Poison?
August 6, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, pleasure can be a polarising force.
Dictating History: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
August 5, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Fragments from the rule of a Romanian Communist leader.
Send in the Clowns: The Last Circus
August 4, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Álex de la Iglesia’s circus of horrors.
A Magnificent Salvage: Mana Waka
August 3, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Acknowledging Merata Mita’s contribution to the nation’s film heritage.
What the title says: Hobo with a Shotgun
August 2, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Arthouse makes way for Grindhouse in this straight-shooting exploitation flick.
Errol Morris on Tabloid
August 1, 2011
The celebrated filmmaker behind such documentary landmarks as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War opens up about the non-fiction medium and his latest film.