Pania of the Streets
Anna Coddington has the voice, the look, the presence, and the songs.
Anna Coddington has the voice, the look, the presence, and the songs.
At The Basement, a self styled anti-musical.
Highlights from this year’s Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
Final thoughts on the Festival de Cannes; James Gray and Mohammad Rasoulof; plus, Abdellatif Kechiche’s eventual Palme d’Or winner.
At the Festival de Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn crashes and burns; Alexander Payne and Lav Diaz triumph.
More insights from journalist and gay rights activist Masha Gessen’s revealing interview with The Lumière Reader.
At the Festival de Cannes, the paparazzi scrum; plus, the latest from Steven Soderbergh, Claire Denis, and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
Mu of Fat Freddy’s Drop talks about the band’s killer new music video for ‘Clean Your House’.
At the Festival de Cannes, a beeline for the Coen Brothers’ new film; plus, Takashi Miike and Paolo Sorrentino in Competition
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.
Auckland Theatre Company bravely reinvigorates Tennessee Williams’s classic play.
More observations at the Festival de Cannes; plus, new films by Asghar Farhadi and Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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.
An interview with English novelist and Auckland Writers & Readers Festival guest Scarlett Thomas.
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.
The excess and emptiness of the Festival de Cannes; plus, The Great Gatsby and Heli.
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: romance in a blaze of glory.
James McNeish’s self-portrait, hymn to a vanishing New Zealand, and record of a varied cast of influential people.
Ahead of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, Shehan Karunatilaka reveals the backstory to his award-winning Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Matthew.
New Zealand Opera present Puccini’s classic passion play.