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Lumière's NZIFF coverage has wrapped for 2008. Festival features and reviews can be revisited below. The Editor's Post-Festival Report will conclude proceedings shortly.
Browse NZIFF Coverage
Interviews and editorial from the NZ International Film Festivals:
» Ben Russell on We Can Not Exist in This World Alone
» Adam Wingard on Pop Skull
» Yung Chang on Up the Yangtze
» Benjamin Gilmour on Son of a Lion
» Kathy Dudding on The Return
» Gregory King on A Song of Good
» NZIFF '08 Dispatch #3: New Illustration
» NZIFF '08 Dispatch #2: Priming the Melbourne International Film Festival
» NZIFF '08 Dispatch #1: Auckland, and onwards
» New Directions: the New Zealand International Film Festivals 2008
Rain of the Children: All those years after In Spring One Plants Alone, Vincent Ward has a fine Tuhoe homecoming. The story of Puhi and her son Niki is sad and compelling. The director of River Queen artfully tells another important story. Problematic, but well worthy.
Paris: Gorgeous, contemporary, romantic, Paris. On beauty, youth and romance; mortality, immigration and counselling. This Bohemian treat stars La Binoche, Le Duris and a hilarious diatribe on the perils of academia.
The Edge of Heaven: Raw and urgent as a bullet to the jugular. Head-On's Fatih Akin plumbs Turkish-German family, politics, faith and love with uncompromising, edgy intensity. In striking contrast to Acid Reflux, aka Ashes of Time Redux, it does much more than look pretty.—Alexander Bisley
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In Praise of The Wire
By Brannavan Gnanalingam
» Taika Waititi: The Finest of Homecomings
» Nina Davenport on Operation Filmmaker
» Annie Goldson on An Island Calling
» There Will Be Hope: The Films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
» An Interview with Sarah Watt
» Film Society 2008: Five Reasons to Join
» Flight of the Conchords: "definitely in the top 3"
» Year in Review: The Best of Film, DVD and Posters in 2007
» Sex and Them: Californication vs Family First
» Spike Lee's Territory
» Syndromes of a Century: Spears, Network, and not taking it anymore
» Fight the Power
» Script to Screen, the Internet, and beyond
» How irony killed satire: an earnest investigation
» La Binoche
» The Summer of Seth
» Making Be Sharp, See Flat
» The Muse of Brazilian Cinema: An Interview with Helena Ignez
» Sign of the Times: A Struggle No More
» Janet Goldwater on Rosita
» Directorial Bandit: Sandor Lau on Squeegee Bandit
» A Convenient Truth: Jeff Blitz on Spellbound
» Year in Review: The Best of Film in 2006
» In Praise Of: Ten Actors and Filmmakers in 2006
» One-Sheet Wonders: The Best Movie Posters of 2006
» Notes from the Underground: the V 24 Hour Movie Marathon 2006
» West Coast Represent: Aunty Gaylene, Greymouth's Finest
» The Passion of Laurie David
» Ode to The West Wing
Browse Film Features
Selected theatrical film releases in New Zealand, rated and reviewed:
» The Dark Knight ***
» Dan in Real Life ***
» I'm Not There *****
» Rambo 4 **
» There Will Be Blood *****
» 2 Days in Paris ***
» Rescue Dawn ***
» No Country For Old Men *****
» The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ****
» Once ****
» Mr Brooks ***
» A Mighty Heart **
» Death Proof ****
» We're Here to Help ****
» Venus, Evening ****/**
» Eastern Promises ****
» La vie en rose ****
» Superbad **
» Joy Division ***
» Eagle vs Shark ****/**
» The Simpsons Movie ***
» Zodiac ***
» Scoop ***
» 28 Weeks Later ***
» The Host ****
» The Road to Guantanamo ****
Short Reviews:
» Up the Yangtze, Paris; 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
» The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Get Smart, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Second-Hand Wedding, Charlie Bartlett
» Street Kings, I'm Not There
» Lars and the Real Girl, Gone Baby Gone, Four Minutes
» Goodbye Bafana, Love in the Time of Cholera, Lady Chatterley, I Served the King of England
» Michael Clayton, 30 Days of Night, Cloverfield, I Am Legend, Rescue Dawn, Red Road, Death at a Funeral
Browse Film Reviews
The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer
By Brannavan Gnanalingam
Selected Region 4 DVD releases and reissues reviewed:
» Allan Wilson: Evolutionary
» Bubble
» Eagle vs Shark
» Jesus Camp
» Sicko
» The West Wing: The Complete Series
» The Wrong Man, I Confess, Stage Fright, Dial M for Murder
» Rome: The Complete First Season
» Entourage: Season Three, Part 2
» The Fred Dagg All-Purpose DVD
» Rang de Basanti, Volver, Black Sheep
» Becoming Jane
» Wordplay
» Rampage
» A Scanner Darkly
» Pan's Labyrinth
» Sherrybaby
» Out of the Blue
» Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima
» Kubrick Triple Feature, Straight Time, The Yakuza, Lust for Life, Body Heat
» The Simpsons: Season 9
» The Pajama Game, Young Man With a Horn
» The Queen
Short Reviews:
» Underbelly, Donnie Darko: Collector's Edition, The Chaser's War on Everything, The War on Democracy, The Investigator, Secret Diary of a Call Girl
» Outrageous Fortune: Series Three
» Mandela: The Living Legend, We're Here to Help, Death at a Funeral, Barking Dogs Never Bite
» The Sopranos: Season Six, The Final Episodes; I Think I Love My Wife, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
» Severance, La Vie en Rose, Stephanie Daley
Browse DVD Reviews
Lumière at the New Zealand International Film Festivals 2008
– Full Coverage Inside –
Features, reviews and columns from the film festival circuit:
» Not Miffed: Melbourne International Film Festival 2008
» Postnatal Neglect: A Walk to Beautiful
» Factory Girls: Maquilapolis—City of Factories
» Left Alone: Western Sahara—Africa's Last Colony
» Cannes 2008: Line-up
» Interiors: Margot at the Wedding
» Out of Sight: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
» Midnight Cowboy: El Topo, The Holy Mountain
» Lady-Tramp: An Old Mistress
» Time-F**K: Southland Tales
» Mutual Exploitation: Black, White + Gray
» Crimes Committed: Dry Season
» Wrong Man: Strange Culture
» Type-Cast: Helvetica
» Out of Africa: War/Dance
» Eastern Promise: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
» World Cinema Showcase 2008
» French Film Festival 2008: Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
» Italian Film Festival 2007: My Best Enemy, Along the Ridge
» Festival Notes From Abroad: Marrakech, Melbourne, Venice
Browse Festival Coverage
Dailies—a monthly roundup of the best and rest in film and DVD:
» Dailies (Film/DVD), Aug/Sept 2008
» Dailies (Film/DVD), June/July 2008
» Dailies (Film/DVD), May 2008
» Dailies (Film/DVD), Apr 2008
» Dailies (Film/DVD), Mar 2008
» Dailies (Film), Feb 2008
» Dailies (Film/DVD), Jan 2008
» Dailies (Film), Dec/Jan 2007/08
Appreciations—writers and critics on memorable and favourite films:
» Tim Wong on Little Dieter Needs to Fly
» Chris Knox on Frankenstein
» Jessica Borrelle on The Loved One
» Samuel Fuller and Francois Truffaut
» Caleb Starrenburg on Rumble in the Bronx
» Brannavan Gnanalingam on The Wizard of Oz
» Alexander Bisley on Hana-bi
» Philip Matthews on Planet of the Apes
» Costa Botes on Fantastic Voyage
» Andrew Langridge on Scream and Scream Again, and others
» Robert Smith on O Lucky Man!
Imprints & Unknown Pleasures—comment on film and television, past and present:
» The Hollow Men
» Fay Grim
» Secret Sunshine
» Transformers
» Extras: Series 2 (TV)
» Girls in Prison, Marie Antoinette
» Adrift: Open Water 2; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Film Society—dispatches from Wellington's weekly screenings:
» Driving With My Wife's Lover
» A State of Siege/In Spring One Plants Alone
» Time Indefinite
» Six Classic New Zealand Shorts
» Persona
» Charleen/Backyard
» Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
» To Sleep With Anger
» My Brother's Wedding
» Killer of Sheep
» The Glass Shield
» Cat People
» The Passenger
» Zabriskie Point
» Requiem
» Pool of Princesses
» Peau d'Ane
» The Young Girls of Rochefort
» Longing
» Ghosts
» Jacquot de Nantes
» The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
» Bay of Angels
» Lola
» Dazed and Confused
» 13 Rue Madeleine
» The House on 92nd Street
» The Murderers Are Among Us
» The Devil Strikes at Midnight
» The Bridge
» Violence des Echanges en Milieu Tempere
» King of the Hill
» Les Revenants
» Waxworks
» Forty Guns
» I Wake Up Screaming
» Park Row
» Fixed Bayonets
» Clean
» Red Light Bandit
» Macunaima
» Barren Lives
» Black God, White Devil
» Earth Entranced
» The Irrefutable Truth About Demons
» Shock Corridor
» The Naked Kiss
» L'Esquive
Why there is only one winner this Diwali
Sapna Samant on
Bollywood's holiday movies
Bollywood Dispatch—Gautaman Bhaskaran on Indian Cinema:
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