Post-Festival Report 2013:
Know Your Auteur
August 26, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, it was a banner year for auteurs and their cinephile constituency.
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Post-Festival Report 2013:
Post-Festival Report 2013:
Crime and no punishment
August 22, 2013
Heavyweight themes, vanity and pretence, escapes from escapism—just another year at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
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.
Big Bands: Mistaken for Strangers, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
August 11, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, The National and Big Star on film.
Sean Baker on Starlet
August 10, 2013
The talented American filmmaker on depicting Los Angeles, channelling Harold and Maude, and the cruelty of truth.
Friends and Lovers:
Starlet, Much Ado About Nothing
August 10, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, Sean Baker’s ode to friendship; and Joss Whedon’s carefree Shakespeare adaptation.
Space Invades:
Ornette: Made in America
August 9, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, Shirley Clarke’s captivating 1985 portrait of jazz icon Ornette Coleman.
On This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
August 9, 2013
Documentarian Maureen Gosling talks Chris Strachwitz, preserving American music culture, and learning from Les Blank.
Inside Paris: It Boy, The Past
August 8, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, David Moreau’s romantic comedy of mismatched intentions; and Ashgar Farhadi’s emotionally draining follow up to A Separation
Night Moves: Only Lovers Left Alive
August 7, 2013
Closing the New Zealand International Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s vampire elegy leaves an impression.
The Night, the Hunter:
Stranger by the Lake
August 7, 2013
Death and darkness await in Alain Guiraudie’s beautiful but malevolent film.
Intrepid Journeys: La jaula de oro
August 6, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, Diego Quemada-Díez’s tough, compassionate tale of three border-crossing teens.
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.
Scenes from a Friendship
August 4, 2013
Wellington musician Theo Taylor discusses the making of his debut feature, Scenes in My Head—a belated return to the ethos first cultivated by the Aro Valley film movement.
Get Your Game On:
Us and the Game Industry
August 2, 2013
Innovation, inspiration, and human expression in Stephanie Beth’s grassroots gaming documentary.
Making The Rocket
August 2, 2013
A conversation with filmmakers Kim Mordaunt and Sylvia Wilczynski about their acclaimed coming-of-age drama set in the heart of Laos.
The Boat That Rocked: Leviathan
August 1, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, a documentary experience like no other.
Sophie Henderson on Fantail
August 1, 2013
The engaging face and voice behind the New Zealand Film Commission’s latest Escalator release chats about the project’s metamorphosis from monologue to feature film.
Taxi to the Dark Side:
Like Someone in Love
July 31, 2013
Abbas Kiarostami’s follow-up to Certified Copy is a brilliant formal exercise in which the audience, as usual, is part of the puzzle.
Memory and Desire: Stranger by the Lake, The Missing Picture, William Yang: My Generation
July 30, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: SAM BROOKS on Alain Guiraudie’s queer thriller; BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM on Rithy Panh’s recovery of a terrible past; and ANDY PALMER on William Yang’s photographic memory.