The Rotterdam Dispatch, Part 2:
Chance Encounters
March 27, 2013
On the virtues and pitfalls of an art cinema utopia; plus, Penumbra, Kira Muratova, and Sebastian Hofman’s Halley.
Archives by Month » March 2013
The Rotterdam Dispatch, Part 2:
Le Tonu—The Decision
March 23, 2013
A gorgeous, well-told, and affecting story of the ailing patriarch of a Samoan family.
The Masterton Sound
March 22, 2013
“You can’t take the MA out of the boy,” reckons Masterton rapper K.One.
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
March 21, 2013
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Monte Hellman’s road to nowhere.
The Current Theatre:
January/February/March 2013
March 19, 2013
A wrap-up of the main-stage productions in Wellington so far in 2013. In this edition: Kings of the Gym, Coriolanus, Perfectly Wasted, You Can Always Hand Them Back, Talking of Kathryn Mansfield.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
March 18, 2013
Revisiting Terrence Malick’s American odyssey.
Berlinale Dispatch (2013) #3: Harmony Lessons, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Closed Curtain, Child’s Pose
March 17, 2013
Notes on the competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Salif Keita and Malian solidarity
March 13, 2013
A dialogue with WOMAD NZ Artistic Director Drew James.
Foul Play: The Thick of It—Series 4
March 11, 2013
New to DVD: Now into its fourth series, Armando Iannucci’s foul-mouthed political satire still bites.
Auckland Fringe 2013: Gorge
March 7, 2013
A fun, thought-provoking hour from the Auckland Fringe 2013.
Braveheart
March 4, 2013
Canadian director Kim Nguyen on the making of recent Best Foreign Language Film nominee, War Witch, currently screening as part of Alliance Française French Film Festival.
Just Above the Clouds
March 3, 2013
Ben Anderson’s surreal, abstract, sometimes strikingly poignant puppet show.
I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
March 2, 2013
Sylvie Simmons’s detailed portrait of the world in which Leonard Cohen lived, loved, worked, and wrote.
Stray Observations with Jonathan Crayford
March 1, 2013
One of New Zealand’s greatest jazz musicians chats ahead of performances at Homegrown and WOMAD.