Calling Time
March 31, 2016
After 13 years of publishing in print and online, The Lumière Reader is taking a break.
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The Lumière Reader presents
“Out of the Mist”
November 11, 2015
Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s ambitious essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of the images and image-makers displaced by the popular view of filmmaking in New Zealand.
The Lumière Reader presents
“Paper Boat”
September 7, 2015
Alex Mitcalfe Wilson charts the journey a book follows when it is published today, telling a story of creativity and commitment through the words of those who carry a text through each step of that path: writers, editors, designers, printers, binders, booksellers, and librarians.
NZIFF 2015 Endnotes
August 25, 2015
Parting thoughts and reflections on the New Zealand International Film Festival from TIM WONG and DOUG DILLAMAN.
The Lumière Reader presents
“Land of the Long White Stain”
July 9, 2015
Claire Duncan follows her musical comrades on a tour of New Zealand in this contemplative ode to a brood of genre-bending Auckland musicians, among them Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing, Seth Frightening, and Shab Orkestra.
Against Efficiency and other texts
May 1, 2015
Summer Writing Resident Matilda Fraser responds to the question “is criticism still relevant?” with this suite of texts developed under Blue Oyster Art Project Space’s online publications initiative, with mentorship and publishing support from The Lumière Reader.
Auckland Calling
March 30, 2015
An Auckland Writers Festival 2015 preview, with selected highlights by our editors and contributors.
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2014
December 22, 2014
The cinematic year as remembered by our editors and contributors.
NZIFF 2014 Endnotes
September 16, 2014
Our New Zealand International Film Festival correspondents select their personal highlights for 2014.
2015 Summer Writing Residency
July 17, 2014
We’re excited to be collaborating with Dunedin’s Blue Oyster Art Project Space on a new Summer Writing Residency focused on critical writing practice.
Conversations: The Tone of Things
June 19, 2014
DOUG DILLAMAN and TIM WONG talk Jake the movie, scriptwriting as a means to an end, collaboration vs. authorship, and finding the right tone.
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.
New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014, Part 2
March 24, 2014
Further hits and misses from the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014. Reviews by ALICE MAY CONNOLLY, JONATHAN PRICE, MICHAEL BOYES, SAMUEL PHILLIPS.
New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014, Part 1
February 24, 2014
Hits and misses from the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014. Reviews by ALICE MAY CONNOLLY, C. CARD, JONATHAN PRICE, MICHAEL BOYES, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, TOM CLARKE.
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2013
December 22, 2013
Our editors and contributors select their favourites from a bountiful year in film.
Milestones in Film
December 10, 2013
To mark ten years online and in print, a selection of “personal milestones” from past and present contributors to The Lumière Reader.
Milestones in Books, Theatre and Art
December 10, 2013
To mark ten years online and in print, a selection of “personal milestones” from past and present contributors to The Lumière Reader.
Conversations: Novel Beginnings
November 8, 2013
Lumière contributors BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM and THOMASIN SLEIGH, authors of You Should Have Come Here When You Were Not Here and Ad Lib respectively, get talking about the process of writing a novel.
Critical Roundup #5: NZIFF Endnotes
August 19, 2013
A roundup of film favourites from our most prolific Auckland and Wellington correspondents at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2013.
Independent Minds:
Upstream Color, Scenes in My Head
August 5, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, , JACOB POWELL on Shane Carruth’s belated follow-up to Primer; and ALICE MAY CONNOLLY on Theo Taylor’s honest portrait of escalating anxiety.