Notes on notes to eternity
Sarah Cordery’s eloquent meditation on the Israel-Palestine conflict also speaks to a potentially unique—and exciting—way forward for New Zealand filmmaking.
Sarah Cordery’s eloquent meditation on the Israel-Palestine conflict also speaks to a potentially unique—and exciting—way forward for New Zealand filmmaking.
The film of the year, plus other standouts, home-viewing highlights, and disappointments in 2014.
Heavyweight themes, vanity and pretence, escapes from escapism—just another year at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Revisiting Terrence Malick’s American odyssey.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, power, violence, and the lingering scent of death awaits.
A sense of emerging new directions for contemporary world cinema marks the halfway point at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival.
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, reflections on the beginning and end of things.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, pleasure can be a polarising force.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Fans of aesthetically and politically rigorous tragi-comic absurdism should sing along to Kira Muratova’s superb new film.
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Godard and Truffaut, head to head.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Out of the past, the Film Foundation selection delivers.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A condensed take on some of Jacques Rivette’s most imposing ‘mountains’.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The latest from novelist-turned-filmmaker Lee Chang-dong.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A superior thinking boy’s own adventure.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, outrage set the tone.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Shirin Neshat’s striking tragedy about four women in Iran.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Auteurs Claire Denis and Corneliu Porumboiu deliver.
Final thoughts on the New Zealand International Film Festival, highlighted by Dogtooth, 24 City, Double Take, Serbis, Summer Hours and Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl.