- The Lumière Reader is an online film and arts journal produced by a collective of New Zealand critics and writers. Since February 2010, we have published from this new website. A complete archive of features and reviews, dating back to 2003, is accessible at lumiere.net.nz/reader.
Current Contributors
Andy Palmer
Brannavan Gnanalingam
Tim Wong
Steve Garden
Jacob Powell
Nina Fowler
Sam Brooks
Samuel Phillips
Christine Linnell
Samuel Holloway
Louise Wallace
Rachael Morgan
Alexander Bisley
At a Glance
- APO, NZSO
- Poetry
- New Zealand Cinema
- New Zealand International Arts Festival
- New Zealand International Film Festival
- Years in Review
Editor’s Picks
- At the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, Paul Gilding on The Great Disruption
- A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy
- An appreciation of Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis
- Black Swan: Another pompous, cocksure movie from the director of Requiem for a Dream.
- The Quiet Revolutionary: An Interview with The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg.
- Campaign for Censorship Reform.
From the Archives
- WOMAD: In Images [Apr 09]
- Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories [Dec 08]
- Smells Like Teen Spirit: Judd Apatow, Adam McKay & The Comedy of Arrested Development [Mar 08]
- The Elusive Junot Díaz [Jun 08]
- The Fearless Writer: Mayra Montero [Mar 08]
The Most Serene Republic:
53rd Venice Biennale