My Dinner With Gary
May 31, 2014
Chewing the fat with Gary Shteyngart at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, plus some highlights from Vivid Sydney’s opening week.
Archives by Month » May 2014
The Connection (1961)
May 27, 2014
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: the radical cinema of Shirley Clarke.
Steve James on Life Itself
May 26, 2014
A conversation on gun control in America, perceiving truth as a filmmaker, and the life and legacy of Roger Ebert with esteemed documentarian Steve James.
Wild Man
May 24, 2014
Victoria University’s theatre programme mount a production of Gao Xingjian’s contemporary Chinese spoken drama.
Insight and Inspiration:
Auckland Writers Festival 2014
May 23, 2014
Notes on Irvine Welsh, A.M. Homes, Eimear McBride, Alice Walker, Eleanor Catton, and other luminaries at the Auckland Writers Festival.
Luncheon
May 22, 2014
A new play about the 1957 Oscar race for Best Supporting Actress.
Outtakes 2014:
In the Name Of…, Rosie
May 21, 2014
Faith and family at the Outtakes Film Festival.
Toomelah (2010)
May 21, 2014
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: an unflinching portrait of an Australian community.
Global Letters:
Auckland Writers Festival 2014
May 20, 2014
Sessions on North Korea, fascist Italy, and the Arab world compelled at this year’s Auckland Writers Festival.
Other Desert Cities
May 17, 2014
Auckland Theatre Company presents Jon Robin Baitz’s “knock-out domestic dust-up.”
A Comedy Festival Dispatch: Squidboy, Kraken
May 17, 2014
At the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2014: Trygve Wakenshaw’s genius double act.
An Interview with Reza Aslan
May 15, 2014
The acclaimed writer and scholar of religions on comedy, Iranian cinema, and the problem with fundamentalists.
The Day That Lasted 21 Years (2012)
May 14, 2014
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: reexamining Brazil’s decades of dictatorship.
“That is what the ‘thing’ is”
May 13, 2014
Irish writer and Goldsmiths Prize recipient Eimear McBride on her debut novel, A Girl is a Half Formed Thing.
A Comedy Festival Dispatch: James Nokise, Eamonn Marra, Alexander Sparrow, Tighty Whiteys, Kraken, Juan, two?
May 12, 2014
Acts of note at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2014. Reviews by MICHAEL BOYES, BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM, SAMUEL PHILLIPS.
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
May 7, 2014
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Louis Malle’s swansong through the world of Chekhov.
Reel Brazil 2014
May 6, 2014
At the Reel Brazil Film Festival, two films address the political tumult of their country’s dictatorial past.
Conversations:
Newer Testaments with Amy Brown
May 4, 2014
On The Odour of Sanctity, sainthood, creativity through faith, and the line between poetry and prose.
A Comedy Festival Dispatch: Reginald D. Hunter, Stephen K. Amos, Flashdunce
May 3, 2014
At the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2014: American comedian Reginald D. Hunter’s New Zealand debut; Stephen K. Amos returns with What Does the K Stand For?; plus, Jackie Van Beek and Jonny Brugh’s sketch act.
Polly Hood in Mumuland
May 1, 2014
Little Red Riding Hood comes to Mangere in this irrepressibly silly show.