The Year in Review:
The Best of Auckland Theatre in 2014
December 31, 2014
Auckland Theatre Editor Sam Brooks selects the year’s best plays and performances.
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The Year in Review:
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2014
December 22, 2014
The cinematic year as remembered by our editors and contributors.
The Year in Review: What’s New? Plus, Discoveries and Revelations in 2014
December 22, 2014
Thoughts on how (and how not) to be a cinephile in New Zealand. Also, the year in unknown pleasures.
One Man, Two Guvnors
December 21, 2014
The Court Theatre takes on “The Funniest Show on the Planet.”
“The war zone over women’s bodies is something that rages and I’m sure will continue to rage”
December 20, 2014
An encounter with Keira Knightley at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Welcoming Lake Street Dive
December 17, 2014
Ahead of WOMAD 2015, trumpeter and guitarist Mike ‘McDuck’ Olson on recording, going viral, Motown, and the end of a year-long tour.
The pictorial beauty of Ida
December 15, 2014
On the aesthetic asceticism of Pawel Pawlikowski’s formally brilliant film.
The Frontman
December 10, 2014
Shihad’s Jon Toogood is still New Zealand’s best frontman.
The Blind Date Project; Hauraki Horror
December 9, 2014
The Basement hosts a brilliant, boundary-pushing piece of theatre; plus, their annual Christmas show.
Bus Ticket: Moving On
December 8, 2014
Theatre as a fresh, entertaining, playful fieldtrip aboard a bus.
Harun Farocki: Three films,
plus Beatriz’s War
December 4, 2014
Celebrating the late, great German media artist, critic, editor, and curator; plus, notes on East Timor’s first ever feature film.
White Elephant
November 30, 2014
Barbarian Productions’ latest show explores the dark divide between the 99 and the 1 percent.
At the Wake
November 29, 2014
Victor Rodger’s new play dramatises a funeral with a cultural and blackly comedic twist.
Hot Seven
November 25, 2014
Alan Gilbert, Simon Rattle, and Rokia Traoré were among New York City’s cultural highlights in autumn 2014.
Late Turner, Gerhard Richter, Steve McQueen’s Ashes
November 21, 2014
J.M.W Turner’s late masterpieces at the Tate Britain; Marian Goodman exhibits new and recent works by Gerhard Richter; plus, Steve McQueen’s new video installation courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery.
Horst P. Horst and the Russian avant-garde theatre
November 20, 2014
At London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, a definitive retrospective of Horst P. Horst’s iconic fashion images, plus radical designs from the Russian avant-garde theatre.
Interstellar: an introspection on fatherhood
November 13, 2014
Christopher Nolan’s love for the mosaic and manifold takes a step back in his new film, an empathetic study of human emotions and relationships.
Vanilla Miraka
November 9, 2014
Hayley Sproull explores the fears, anxieties, and humour of bi-cultural identity in her new fast paced, one woman comedy show.
The long, friendly shadow of My Neighbor Totoro
November 4, 2014
On the lineage and legacy of Hayao Miyazaki’s most enduring film. Plus, Isao Takahata and a new Studio Ghibli showcase.
Stag Weekend
November 3, 2014
The Court Theatre’s new production explores the ridiculous nature of male-bonding rituals and what it means to be a man in the modern age.