The Truth Game
October 23, 2012
Sex, lies, and the Fourth Estate.
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Julian Farhat on Where Do We Go Now?
October 21, 2012
The charismatic actor talks Nadine Labaki, religious conflict, and the hollow glamour of Cannes.
A Frigate Bird Sings
October 16, 2012
David Fane and Oscar Kightley’s play brilliantly tackles the cultural and personal complexities of the fa’afafine with a bracing honesty and gentle comic touch.
The Bartered Bride
October 16, 2012
New Zealand Opera present Bedrich Smetana’s comic score of love and fidelity.
The Mortality of Things:
Final thoughts on NZIFF 2012
October 15, 2012
Endings were nigh at the New Zealand International Film Festival—thematically, the richest on record.
Dispatches from the Venice International Film Festival 2012, Part 3
October 9, 2012
Final thoughts on the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
Privatising Parts
October 9, 2012
Heleyni Pratley performs Richard Meros’s satirical novel.
Watermarking
at the Liverpool Biennial 2012
September 25, 2012
Guests of the port city of Liverpool, artists David Bennewith, William Hsu and Marnie Slater explore the theme of ‘hospitality’ via the ocean and Wellington as a starting point.
Day After Night
September 24, 2012
Theatre of Love’s ambitious, much-talked about musical venture centred on gay adoption.
Dispatches from the Venice International Film Festival 2012, Part 2
September 22, 2012
At the 69th Venice International Film Festival, death and taxes await.
Clybourne Park; Manawa
September 18, 2012
Bruce Norris unpacks how race and racism inform the way we use property and the function of communities; Jamie McCaskill explores the ironies of how New Zealand perceives crime, and the flaws of our media and legal system.
Dispatches from the Venice International Film Festival 2012, Part 1
September 11, 2012
The past and the present collide at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
Private Lives
September 11, 2012
Silo revives Noël Coward’s classic play for the present day.
A slow ride on the Crazy Horse
September 10, 2012
MEGAN DUNN takes a sidelong glance at Paris’ world famous Crazy Horse revue—the subject of Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary.
Beyond 2001:
Eleven terrific films from the last decade
September 9, 2012
Alexander Bisley recalls eleven terrific films from his first decade as a critic.
Old New World
September 8, 2012
Mary Macpherson’s photographic survey of change in New Zealand society as seen in small towns throughout the country.
Holding On; Sophisticated Sinner
September 7, 2012
Gavin McGibbon’s tragicomedy reveals counseling can be as dramatic as the events that send people there; Karen Anslow delivers a musical celebration of the great divas of the last century.
The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later
September 6, 2012
A fantastic production of Tectonic Theatre Project’s illuminating follow-up to The Laramie Project.
The Shit We Live In: We Feel Fine
August 28, 2012
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, co-director Adam Luxton talks about the reality of making his new feature film outside of the ‘bubble’.
Post-Festival Report 2012:
Murder in Mind
August 25, 2012
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, power, violence, and the lingering scent of death awaits.