Category Archives: Film Festivals
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 3:
Still Lives
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Fraught Families: Elena, A Separation
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Duty, morality, and class intersect.
Sexuality and Speed:
Sleeping Beauty, Senna
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Julia Leigh’s erroneously marketed “erotic thriller”; plus, Ayrton Senna’s fast times.
The Remembrance of Things Past:
Mysteries of Lisbon
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Raúl Ruiz’s sprawling, magisterial epic.
Ti West on The Innkeepers
The director of The House of the Devil continues to finesse the horror genre with his latest throwback.
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.
Calypso Kings: Fire in Babylon
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The Windies' blaze of glory.
Morgan Spurlock on
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
The affable documentarian famous for an all-McDonald’s diet turns his attention to the world of product placement in movies.
Time Crimes: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Ceylan’s rich, contemplative crime movie.
Two From Japan: 13 Assassins, Arrietty
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Miike’s ferocious swashbuckler; Ghibli’s latest animated triumph.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Viva Riva!
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Gangsters and floozies in the Congolese Republic.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 1:
Meat, or Poison?
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, pleasure can be a polarising force.
Dictating History: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Fragments from the rule of a Romanian Communist leader.
Send in the Clowns: The Last Circus
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Álex de la Iglesia’s circus of horrors.
A Magnificent Salvage: Mana Waka
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Acknowledging Merata Mita’s contribution to the nation’s film heritage.
What the title says: Hobo with a Shotgun
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Arthouse makes way for Grindhouse in this straight-shooting exploitation flick.
Errol Morris on Tabloid
The celebrated filmmaker behind such documentary landmarks as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War opens up about the non-fiction medium and his latest film.
Going, going, gone:
Martha Marcy May Marlene
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A woman on the verge...
Yours Affectionately: Love Story
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Florian Habicht’s valentine to the character and characters of New York City.
The Story of Me (2009)