Author Archives: Steve Garden
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 2:
Life, Love and Death
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, reflections on the beginning and end of things.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 1:
Meat, or Poison?
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, pleasure can be a polarising force.
A Christmas Carol:
Melody for a Street Organ
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Fans of aesthetically and politically rigorous tragi-comic absurdism should sing along to Kira Muratova’s superb new film.
Post-Festival Report 2010, Part 3: Certified Copies
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Woe is he: Two in the Wave
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Godard and Truffaut, head to head.
Post-Festival Report 2010, Part 2:
Unearthing Precious Treasure
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Out of the past, the Film Foundation selection delivers.
‘All the world is a stage’:
Around a Small Mountain
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A condensed take on some of Jacques Rivette’s most imposing ‘mountains’.
The Blank Page: Poetry
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The latest from novelist-turned-filmmaker Lee Chang-dong.
Cold War: How I Ended This Summer
At the New Zealand International Film Festival:
Post-Festival Report 2010, Part 1: How I Ended This Winter—Anger and Disgust
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, outrage set the tone.
The will that moves all things:
Women Without Men
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Shirin Neshat’s striking tragedy about four women in Iran.
Two great filmmakers, two great films: White Material and Police, Adjective
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Auteurs Claire Denis and Corneliu Porumboiu deliver.
Post-Festival Report 2009, Part 3: In Praise of Slow-Burning Cinema
Final thoughts on the New Zealand International Film Festival, highlighted by Dogtooth, 24 City, Double Take, Serbis, Summer Hours and Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl.
A speculative consideration of Lars von Trier and Antichrist
Baiting and repelling audiences in equal measure, Lars von Trier’s Antichrist is the most misunderstood film of the year.
Appreciations: Ten (2002)
On Abbas Kiarostami’s ethical gaze.
Posted in Appreciations, Film Comments closed
Appreciations: Mother and Son (1997)
Alexandr Sokurov’s hymn to The Silence.
Posted in Appreciations, Film Comments closed
Appreciations: Russian Ark (2002)
Alexandr Sokurov takes us back to the future.
Posted in Appreciations, Film Comments closed
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 3:
Still Lives