Taxi to the Dark Side:
Like Someone in Love
July 31, 2013
Abbas Kiarostami’s follow-up to Certified Copy is a brilliant formal exercise in which the audience, as usual, is part of the puzzle.
Archives by Month » July 2013
Taxi to the Dark Side:
Memory and Desire: Stranger by the Lake, The Missing Picture, William Yang: My Generation
July 30, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: SAM BROOKS on Alain Guiraudie’s queer thriller; BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM on Rithy Panh’s recovery of a terrible past; and ANDY PALMER on William Yang’s photographic memory.
Cheap Thrills with E.L. Katz
July 30, 2013
The up-and-coming director on horror, comedy, and being a humanist at heart.
A Fistful of Dollars: Cheap Thrills
July 30, 2013
The colour of money is red in E.L. Katz’s fiendish debut feature.
Michael Apted on 56 Up
July 29, 2013
The seasoned British filmmaker behind the indelible Up Series talks about the latest installment and his seven year itch.
Discovering A Band Called Death
July 27, 2013
Filmmakers Mark Covino and Jeff Howlett on finding the Hackney brothers, their unknown legacy, and what’s in a name.
American Stories: Gideon’s Army, Valentine Road, The Crash Reel, This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
July 26, 2013
Four new documentaries at the New Zealand International Film Festival showcase plenty that’s grim, and more than a little bit that’s not, in contemporary United States.
There Will Be Hope
July 26, 2013
A conversation with the great Mahamat-Saleh Haroun about his new film Grigris and his cinematic legacy to date.
Opening Shots at NZIFF 2013
July 25, 2013
Goblin play Suspiria, North by Northwest on the big screen, Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy, and other brief observations from the opening weekend of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Graeme Cowley on Utu Redux
July 25, 2013
The trailblazing cinematographer and early independent shares thoughts on the art of lighting, making and restoring Utu, and the state of New Zealand cinema.
School of Flesh: Lesson of the Evil
July 24, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, workaholic Takashi Miike gets reacquainted with his exploitation roots.
The Heretic
July 23, 2013
Richard Bean’s play engages with the battle between politics and science.
On The Weight of Elephants
July 22, 2013
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, a conversation with Daniel Joseph Borgman ahead of the Australasian premiere of his debut feature, The Weight of Elephants.
The Viennese
July 19, 2013
Yves Montmayeur on his muscular study of Austrian auteur Michael Haneke, Michael H Profession: Director.
In Retrospect:
Dial M for Murder, The Crowd
July 18, 2013
Notes on Alfred Hitchcock’s underrated 3-D murder mystery and King Vidor’s underseen silent-era masterpiece, screening in retrospect at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Between Two Worlds: Nga Whanaunga Maori Pasifika Shorts
July 17, 2013
Nga Whanaunga curator LEO KOZIOL (Ngati Rakaipaaka, Ngati Kahungunu) offers notes on this year’s Maori Pasifika short film harvest at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
“Humour is the most
damaging weapon we have”
July 15, 2013
An interview with Mike Lerner, co-director of the rousing Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.
Stealing Secrets:
An Interview with Alex Gibney
July 14, 2013
The incisive documentarian on We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks and Silence in the House of God.
Intimacies:
Sweet Thing and I’d Rather Be Pope
July 11, 2013
Stephen Sinclair’s two plays are fascinating in their flaws.
Art and Soul: Museum Hours
July 10, 2013
Jem Cohen explores the fluidity of art, the post-punk ethos, and the invigorating act of seeing and thinking in his absorbing new film.