Category Archives: Film
Fading Magic: The Illusionist
New to DVD: The gentle comedy of Jacques Tati and the flights of fancy of Sylvain Chomet combine in this devastating, gorgeously animated elegy to the lost arts.
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WCS 2012: Miss Bala
At the World Cinema Showcase, the good, the bad, and the not so ugly.
WCS 2012: Presumed Guilty
At the World Cinema Showcase, crime and punishment in Vincent Garenq’s harrowing reconstruction of the ‘Outreau Affair’.
WCS 2012: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Woody Allen—A Documentary, The Color Wheel
At the World Cinema Showcase, BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM on the West Memphis Three and Woody Allen; TIM WONG on Alex Ross Perry’s double act.
Out of the Past: Damsels in Distress
At the World Cinema Showcase, Whit Stillman makes a comeback—but after 14 years, has his cinema of propriety and verbal wit aged well?
WCS 2012: This is Not a Film
At the World Cinema Showcase, the injustice and creative resilience of Jafar Panahi’s captivating new film.
Wake in Fright (1971)
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: one of the great, unheralded Australian films of all-time.
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Jim Marbrook on Mental Notes
At the World Cinema Showcase, acknowledging New Zealand’s atrocious history in mental health care through documentary and testimony.
WCS 2012: The Tall Man, Hell and Back Again
At the World Cinema Showcase, harsh realities as seen through the documentary lens.
The Human Condition: Margaret
At the World Cinema Showcase, Kenneth Lonergan’s all-too-human drama, a film as mercurial as it is masterful.
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Joan Crawford as James M. Cain’s desperate housewife.
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WCS 2012: The Swell Season
At the World Cinema Showcase, the receding tide of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová’s musical romance.
WCS 2012: Under African Skies
At the World Cinema Showcase, Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ is both celebrated and scrutinized.
Berlinale Dispatch #8: Last Words
Reflections on the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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The Skin I Live In (2011)
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Almodóvar’s dark days.
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Berlinale Dispatch #7: Rebelle, Gnade
Jungle and ice at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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Berlinale Dispatch #6: Pietra Brettkelly and Ngaa Rauuira Pumanawawhiti on Maori Boy Genius
NINA FOWLER talks to the director/producer and star of Maori Boy Genius, one of two Kiwi feature films at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival
Berlinale Dispatch #5: Two Kiwis in Berlin—Maori Boy Genius, Two Little Boys
Hobbits and elfin glades fade from the mind at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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