Some tree-swinging news from abroad that's too good to pass up: Catherine Keener, fresh from reminding the ignorant world that Harper Lee is
not a man, is said to be reprising her collaboration with Spike Jonze in a film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's bookshelf essential,
Where the Wild Things Are. The local connection? That it's being shot in New Zealand (apparently). Her comments come via the roundtable prowess of
Charlie Rose. Keener is set to play the mother of Max; Jim Henson's workshop are slated to make the puppets. We wouldn't have it any other way.
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.
