Songmakers: Strange Powers—Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields; TrinityRoots, Music Is Choice
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Two bands in the spotlight.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Two bands in the spotlight.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Laugh-out-loud moments in stop-motion and jihadism.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Humour and profundities abound in Hong Sang-soo’s latest.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Seven new shorts by New Zealand filmmakers.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The first-time Australian filmmaker on the making of his justly hyped crime thriller.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: An artist in residence; a life of art.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Kiarostami takes on Juliette Binoche in Tuscany, and loses none of his edge.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Mariano Llinás’s storytelling feat.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Filmmaking as community spirit.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Berlusconi’s racket is exposed in Sabina Guzzanti’s fiery documentary; Tommy Wiseau’s ultimate bad movie.
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.
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.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Filmmaker Peter Esmonde talks about capturing the elusive sonic artist at work.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Pedro Costa’s sublime study of an artist at work.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The director of ‘Cube’ indulges his jones for the mad scientist movie.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: An unsung entrepreneur gets his due in Costa Botes’s new documentary.
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.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A ‘disasterpiece’ earns its wings.
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.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Shirin Neshat’s striking tragedy about four women in Iran.