TNZIFF Dispatch #6
The 38th Telecom Auckland International Film Festival is officially underway, with festival patrons clambering for tickets, and late-comers apparently being turned away in last-minute disappointment. You have been warned. Congratulations to our two Auckland winners of double passes to The New World, J. Mcrae and S. Bulley; Wellington winners will be drawn July 24th. You can still enter [here]Latest Additions: IAN CHRISTOPHER feels the heat in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth; headaches are par for the course in the extraordinary Mind Game, the year's most mentally-exhausting animated feature according to CALEB STARRENBURG; TIM GRAY submits his third installment of Ticket Stub Scrawlings, taking in Keane, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and A Bittersweet Life from Ant Timpson's That's Incredible Cinema! programme; TIM WONG samples some of the early competition in the Homegrown short film programme, and Mitsuo Yanahigamchi’s zany and nimble comedy-of-filmmaking, Who’s Camus Anyway?
Pineapple Express: The funniest stoner movie I can remember. Seth Rogen's horsepowered performance anchors a consistently amusing flick. George Washington's David Gordon Green ably directs. Rogen effortlessly draws on his natural affability. He tells Lumiere his numerous acting roles aren't hard; generally they are "pretty similar" to his own life: "
