Songmakers: Strange Powers—Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields; TrinityRoots, Music Is Choice
July 30, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Two bands in the spotlight.
Archives by Month » July 2010
Toys and Terrorists:
A Town Called Panic, Four Lions
July 29, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Laugh-out-loud moments in stop-motion and jihadism.
Laugh Out Loud: Hahaha
July 28, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Humour and profundities abound in Hong Sang-soo’s latest.
Homegrown: Quirky Stories
July 27, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Seven new shorts by New Zealand filmmakers.
David Michôd on Animal Kingdom
July 26, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The first-time Australian filmmaker on the making of his justly hyped crime thriller.
A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: Michael Smither, Gordon Crook
July 25, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: An artist in residence; a life of art.
Voyage to Italy: Certified Copy
July 24, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Kiarostami takes on Juliette Binoche in Tuscany, and loses none of his edge.
Raw Ambition: Extraordinary Stories
July 24, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Mariano Llinás’s storytelling feat.
Cut and Run: The Peddler
July 23, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Filmmaking as community spirit.
Mad Men:
Draquila—Italy Trembles, The Room
July 23, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Berlusconi’s racket is exposed in Sabina Guzzanti’s fiery documentary; Tommy Wiseau’s ultimate bad movie.
Ode to Joy
July 22, 2010
For much of its recent history, Vienna has been something of a musical incubator, a fact celebrated in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s current concert series Splendour of Vienna. The focus of the series is, understandably, the Classical and Romantic mainstays of Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler, though it is a pity that a substantial work from the Second Viennese School (of pioneering atonal and serial composers) or a contemporary composer (such as the brilliant Beat Furrer) does not feature. That said, Musical Director Eckehard Stier’s surprising placement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 alongside significantly lesser-known pieces by Wolf and Schoenberg in the first concert of the series (Auckland Town Hall, July 15) made for an strong, intelligent programme that still drew a full house.
An Interview with Gareth Williams
July 22, 2010
Actor, writer, musician and designer—Gareth Williams wears many hats, often simultaneously. He found time to chat in between rehearsals for the upcoming Silo Theatre musical, Assassins.
Peter Esmonde on
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
July 21, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Filmmaker Peter Esmonde talks about capturing the elusive sonic artist at work.
Deep Focus: Ne change rien
July 20, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Pedro Costa’s sublime study of an artist at work.
Traditional Family Values: Splice
July 19, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The director of ‘Cube’ indulges his jones for the mad scientist movie.
Costa Botes on Candyman
July 18, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: An unsung entrepreneur gets his due in Costa Botes’s new documentary.
Robin Greenberg on The Free China Junk
July 17, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The personal journey of five young men in a rickety old junk is recharted in Robin Greenberg’s buoyant documentary.
Film School Reject:
Birdemic—Shock and Terror
July 17, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A ‘disasterpiece’ earns its wings.
Young and Hungry 2010
July 16, 2010
The second Young and Hungry to reach Auckland, the Young and Hungry Festival of New Theatre 2010 features three gems which are as tight and professional as shows with more experienced casts.
The will that moves all things:
Women Without Men
July 16, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Shirin Neshat’s striking tragedy about four women in Iran.