Critical Roundup #3:
Cannes favourites at NZIFF
June 30, 2013
Three of Brannavan Gnanalingam’s favourites from the Festival de Cannes: The Great Beauty, Behind the Candelabra, Norte, the End of History.
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Critical Roundup #3:
The Odyssey
June 29, 2013
An engaging, highly entertaining, sometimes moving retelling of Homer’s epic poem.
Raglan Girl
June 28, 2013
“If it wasn’t for Home and Away, I would’ve been fucked in the last year or so.”—Anna Coddington
City Life: The Human Scale
June 27, 2013
Danish filmmaker and social anthropologist Andreas Dalsgaard discusses cities and their inhabitants, with special concern for Christchurch, ahead of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Critical Roundup #2:
Documentaries at NZIFF
June 26, 2013
Three essential documentaries: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, and The Act of Killing.
Andrew Bujalski on Computer Chess
June 25, 2013
The quiet achiever behind Mutual Appreciation and Beeswax talks about his surreal fourth feature ahead of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
The Sydney Film Festival Dispatch
June 25, 2013
Cinematic discoveries and dead ends from across the Tasman.
Critical Roundup #1:
Cannes winners at NZIFF
June 24, 2013
We revisit Brannavan Gnanalingam’s coverage of the following prizewinners at the Festival de Cannes: Like Father, Like Son, A Touch of Sin, The Past.
The Pitchfork Disney
June 23, 2013
Philip Ridley’s debut play receives the production that it deserves.
The Phoenix Foundation, Fandango
June 22, 2013
The Phoenix Foundation’s latest release is their best album yet.
Janeece Gunton: Herstory
June 20, 2013
Yvette Parsons is a standout in Thomas Sainsbury’s funny, filthy new play.
The Photographer
June 19, 2013
A succinct interview with photographer Ans Westra, whose new book Nga Tau ki Muri: Our Future looks at New Zealand’s environment through 20 years of images.
Anne Boleyn
June 18, 2013
Auckland Theatre Company’s production is more than worthy of Howard Brenton’s great script.
Mirror, Mirror: Jean Genet’s The Maids
June 17, 2013
Notes on the Sydney Theatre Company’s flagship production of 2013, starring Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert.
The Lyricist
June 15, 2013
An interview with Mark Turner, the Eversons’ witty, amiable frontman.
K’Rd Strip: A Place to Stand
June 14, 2013
K’Rd’s vital and significant past is tackled by the Okareka Dance Company.
An Interview with Lil B
June 13, 2013
The prolific rapper on Bill and Barack, Ellen and Hillary, 50 and Puffy. Photography by DANIEL ROSE.
…with a stranger…
June 11, 2013
The Dust Palace present a sophisticated exploration of human nature via circus performance.
First we take Park City,
then we take Berlin
June 10, 2013
Shopping’s cool writer-directors, Louis Sutherland and Mark Albiston, talk about the Dawn Raids, their message, Matthias Luafutu, and coming home.
I’m Your Woman:
A Conversation with Sylvie Simmons
June 7, 2013
One of rock‘n’roll’s great journalists on Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, and Bob Johnston.