Author Archives: Lumiere Staff
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2011
The year’s cinematic highlights according to our editors and contributors.
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2010
Our editors and contributors pick out the crème of the crop in movies.
WCS 2010: Goemon, Fish Tank, Still Walking
Three films at the World Cinema Showcase. By CALEB STARRENBURG, BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM, STEVE GARDEN.
Primitive, Sacred and Pure: T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T.
In Warsaw, MAGADALENA PODBIELKOWSKA and PETER BISLEY interview T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T.’s award-winning Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna, ahead of six performances at the New Zealand International Arts Festival.
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The Year and Decade in Review, Part 3
ALEXANDER BISLEY with eight great films (and two turkeys) from the last decade; STEVE GARDEN with the highlights and disappointments from the 2009 film festival season.
Dailies—November/December 2009
SAM GASKIN and ALEXANDER BISLEY recap the best and rest in film and DVD: A Serious Man, Sherlock Holmes, An Education, New York, I Love You (Film); Flight on the Conchords: The Complete Second Season, Extras: The Complete Collection, The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season (DVD).
Dailies—September/October 2009
STUART LYNCH and ALEXANDER BISLEY recap the best and rest in film and DVD: Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Somersault, Pete Seeger: Live in Australia 1963, Until Proven Innocent, Soul Men, Notorious, Defiance, The Wrestler (DVD); Cathay Pacific Italian Film Festival 2009, The Strength of Water, Disgrace, District 9 (Film).
Dailies—February/March 2009
Our writers recap the best and rest in film and DVD: The Dark Knight, Snow Angels, 30 Rock—Seasons 1 & 2, Extras—The Special, Persepolis, Cassandra’s Dream. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. Damily Guy—Season 7 (DVD); Frost/Nixon, Dean Spanley, Valkyrie, Empties (Film).
WCS 2012: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Woody Allen—A Documentary, The Color Wheel