By Chris Ware
Fantagraphics, NZ$63 | Reviewed by David Levinson

SEEMS like this might be another one of those conversational mirror-checks best saved for party situations: Casually name-drop the title and you're certain to get a response concerning just how awesome it is, delivered with a steely matter-of-factness that makes it feel like you're exchanging secret handshakes or something. Which is a pretty fucking fair analogy considering the only way it even managed to smear my pop cult radar in the end was through accidentally stumbling across its inclusion in a 2002 Biennale catalogue. I try not to live my life in a bubble, but seems I must be if something so tailor-made to the more emotionally unthreaded side of me has managed to play sitting duck for the past three years.

Media Release | 16 August, 2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Cunningham has confirmed his participation in the New Zealand International Arts Festival as a guest of New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week 2006. Author of five novels and a travel book, Cunningham is perhaps best known for his brilliant and critically acclaimed novel The Hours for which he won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Successfully adapted for the big screen in 2002, the film of The Hours garnered nine Oscar nominations and an Academy Award for Nicole Kidman in her role as Virginia Woolf.

Last year, Lumière teamed up with Massey University's Foundation Certificate in Design course. The brief? To create movie-inspired illustration from a set list of films. The class of 2005 have just recently completed theirs, and along with selected works from 2004, can be viewed in their entirety...[here]