Pania of the Streets
May 31, 2013
Anna Coddington has the voice, the look, the presence, and the songs.
Archives by Month » May 2013
Gravity Hotel
May 30, 2013
At The Basement, a self styled anti-musical.
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival: An Epilogue
May 29, 2013
Highlights from this year’s Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
Postcards from Cannes, Part 8: The Immigrant, Manuscripts Don’t Burn, Blue is the Warmest Color
May 28, 2013
Final thoughts on the Festival de Cannes; James Gray and Mohammad Rasoulof; plus, Abdellatif Kechiche’s eventual Palme d’Or winner.
Postcards from Cannes, Part 7: Only God Forgives, Wakolda, Nebraska, Norte, the End of History
May 27, 2013
At the Festival de Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn crashes and burns; Alexander Payne and Lav Diaz triumph.
The Return
May 26, 2013
More insights from journalist and gay rights activist Masha Gessen’s revealing interview with The Lumière Reader.
Postcards from Cannes, Part 6: Behind the Candelabra, The Bastards, A Castle in Italy, Grigris
May 26, 2013
At the Festival de Cannes, the paparazzi scrum; plus, the latest from Steven Soderbergh, Claire Denis, and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
Puppet Fiction
May 25, 2013
Mu of Fat Freddy’s Drop talks about the band’s killer new music video for ‘Clean Your House’.
Postcards from Cannes, Part 5: Shield of Straw, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Beauty
May 24, 2013
At the Festival de Cannes, a beeline for the Coen Brothers’ new film; plus, Takashi Miike and Paolo Sorrentino in Competition
Postcards from Cannes, Part 4: Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, Grand Central, Bends, Death March, Borgman
May 23, 2013
Partying at the Festival de Cannes; more from the Competition and Un Certain Regard; plus, on not getting into the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.
The Glass Menagerie
May 22, 2013
Auckland Theatre Company bravely reinvigorates Tennessee Williams’s classic play.
Postcards from Cannes, Part 3: The Past, Miele, Like Father, Like Son
May 21, 2013
More observations at the Festival de Cannes; plus, new films by Asghar Farhadi and Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Exclusive: Masha Gessen Decides to Leave Russia
May 21, 2013
The brave author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin tells ALEXANDER BISLEY why she decided on Sunday to leave Russia.
The Other Scarlett
May 18, 2013
An interview with English novelist and Auckland Writers & Readers Festival guest Scarlett Thomas.
Postcards from Cannes, Part 2: Jeune et Jolie, Fruitvale Station, A Touch of Sin
May 18, 2013
Queues and quotations at the Festival de Cannes; plus, François Ozon’s Jeune et Jolie, Fruitvale Station, and Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin.
Postcards from Cannes, Part 1: The Great Gatsby, Heli
May 17, 2013
The excess and emptiness of the Festival de Cannes; plus, The Great Gatsby and Heli.
Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
May 16, 2013
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: romance in a blaze of glory.
Touchstones: A Memoir
May 15, 2013
James McNeish’s self-portrait, hymn to a vanishing New Zealand, and record of a varied cast of influential people.
The Sportswriter
May 14, 2013
Ahead of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, Shehan Karunatilaka reveals the backstory to his award-winning Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Matthew.
Madame Butterfly
May 13, 2013
New Zealand Opera present Puccini’s classic passion play.