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More cherry pickings from the box: this week, festival documentaries get a significant look in. American Experience: Citizen King (9pm, Maori TV) broadcasts Sunday night. Known simply as Citizen King when it screened at the 2004 Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals, its appearance on the Maori network a year on adds more rep to a channel that's getting noticed for its eclectic film selections. Earlier in the week, the World Cinema Showcase, pre-Charlize doco Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (8.30pm, TV1) shows Thursday night; the footage and candid interviews at hand in part the basis for the fictionalised account of real-life serial killer Wuornos and Ms. Theron's Oscar-thieving performance in 2003's Monster.
Before Christ, Prime have Mel Gibson's outback apocalypse sequel Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Friday night (9.30pm), followed immediately over on TV3 by pre-In Her Shoes lit. slosh in the form of director Curtis Hanson's Wonderboys (11.30pm). Saturday night – granted, you should really be socializing (or at the Wellington leg of the Movie Marathon, if you're me) – takes cover initially with, *yawn*, Black Hawk Down (9.30pm, TV2), just about one war movie too many if you've been counting since Saving Private Ryan. Later, the surprisingly sturdy The Transporter (TV3) is in action transit from 11.25pm onwards. Hong Kong cinema watchdogs will note this is directed by Corey Yuen (the delirious High Risk comes instantly to mind), and stars the radiant Shu Qi – currently in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times (and previously of his Millennium Mamco). Post-midnight, the original crazed Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze mindfuck Being John Malkovich (2.20am, TV2) appears in the dead-of-night for those silly enough to be still awake.—TW
Before Christ, Prime have Mel Gibson's outback apocalypse sequel Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Friday night (9.30pm), followed immediately over on TV3 by pre-In Her Shoes lit. slosh in the form of director Curtis Hanson's Wonderboys (11.30pm). Saturday night – granted, you should really be socializing (or at the Wellington leg of the Movie Marathon, if you're me) – takes cover initially with, *yawn*, Black Hawk Down (9.30pm, TV2), just about one war movie too many if you've been counting since Saving Private Ryan. Later, the surprisingly sturdy The Transporter (TV3) is in action transit from 11.25pm onwards. Hong Kong cinema watchdogs will note this is directed by Corey Yuen (the delirious High Risk comes instantly to mind), and stars the radiant Shu Qi – currently in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times (and previously of his Millennium Mamco). Post-midnight, the original crazed Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze mindfuck Being John Malkovich (2.20am, TV2) appears in the dead-of-night for those silly enough to be still awake.—TW
Bob wrote:
Also intriguing is TVNZ's ongoing difficulty with promoting local content - ie. not promoting great shows like The Market, or Liberation Force - and even failing to promote critically acclaimed hits like Carnivale - while TV3 is really doing a great job on an average show like Outrageous Fortune.
Guess that co-axial link is getting a bit more interesting.