On Literary Pilgrimage
August 28, 2015
An account of living and writing in residence at Orlando’s Jack Kerouac House.
Archives by Month » August 2015
NZIFF 2015 Endnotes
August 25, 2015
Parting thoughts and reflections on the New Zealand International Film Festival from TIM WONG and DOUG DILLAMAN.
Billy Liar (1963)
August 24, 2015
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: a short deconstruction of John Schlesinger’s British classic.
Behind Bubblelands
August 21, 2015
An interview with award-winning playwright Renee Liang, whose new creation is a fable of fishy sentience, ecology, and sashimi set in a Chinese restaurant.
Not Psycho
August 18, 2015
Benjamin Henson’s masterful stage remix of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
David Bowie is
August 18, 2015
A look back at the first international retrospective of David Bowie’s multifaceted career; plus, viewing notes from the Art Institute of Chicago.
This must be the place + Anatomy
August 17, 2015
Two new poetry collections by Annabel Hawkins and Jamie Trower from boutique publisher Makaro Press.
Kidlat Tahimik on Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment
August 12, 2015
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, an interview with the veteran Filipino filmmaker and “father of independent cinema in the Philippines.”
What to Watch at NZIFF 2015, Part 8
August 11, 2015
Flying under the radar at New Zealand International Film Festival, Guy Maddin’s exhilarating The Forbidden Room, plus The Tribe and Ever the Land
What to Watch at NZIFF 2015, Part 7
August 7, 2015
On the politics of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s devastating Cemetery of Splendour, Inherent Vice’s countercultural ennui, and Mustang’s cultural barriers at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Sitting on the edge
August 6, 2015
An interview with Grant Scicluna, writer-director of Downriver—a powerful new Australian film in the tradition of The Boys.
What to Watch at NZIFF 2015, Part 6
August 5, 2015
Second week highlights from the New Zealand International Film Festival, including Hou Hsiao-hsien’s centrepiece The Assassin and Tom Moore’s new animation Song of the Sea.
Lysistrata
August 4, 2015
Auckland Theatre Company’s stylish update of Aristophanes’s ancient Greek play.