Notes on notes to eternity
September 2, 2015
Sarah Cordery’s eloquent meditation on the Israel-Palestine conflict also speaks to a potentially unique—and exciting—way forward for New Zealand filmmaking.
Archives by Contributor » Steve Garden
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2014 (Postscript)
January 5, 2015
The film of the year, plus other standouts, home-viewing highlights, and disappointments in 2014.
Post-Festival Report 2013:
Crime and no punishment
August 22, 2013
Heavyweight themes, vanity and pretence, escapes from escapism—just another year at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
March 18, 2013
Revisiting Terrence Malick’s American odyssey.
Post-Festival Report 2012:
Murder in Mind
August 25, 2012
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, power, violence, and the lingering scent of death awaits.
Mid-Festival Report 2012:
Transparency and Illumination
August 4, 2012
A sense of emerging new directions for contemporary world cinema marks the halfway point at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 3:
Still Lives
August 26, 2011
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 2:
Life, Love and Death
August 11, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, reflections on the beginning and end of things.
Post-Festival Report 2011, Part 1:
Meat, or Poison?
August 6, 2011
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, pleasure can be a polarising force.
A Christmas Carol:
Melody for a Street Organ
September 18, 2010
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.
Post-Festival Report 2010, Part 3: Certified Copies
August 30, 2010
Further dispatches from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Woe is he: Two in the Wave
August 28, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Godard and Truffaut, head to head.
Post-Festival Report 2010, Part 2:
Unearthing Precious Treasure
August 21, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Out of the past, the Film Foundation selection delivers.
‘All the world is a stage’:
Around a Small Mountain
August 17, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A condensed take on some of Jacques Rivette’s most imposing ‘mountains’.
The Blank Page: Poetry
August 12, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The latest from novelist-turned-filmmaker Lee Chang-dong.
Cold War: How I Ended This Summer
August 7, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: A superior thinking boy’s own adventure.
Post-Festival Report 2010, Part 1: How I Ended This Winter—Anger and Disgust
August 3, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, outrage set the tone.
The will that moves all things:
Women Without Men
July 16, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Shirin Neshat’s striking tragedy about four women in Iran.
Two great filmmakers, two great films: White Material and Police, Adjective
July 7, 2010
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Auteurs Claire Denis and Corneliu Porumboiu deliver.
Post-Festival Report 2009, Part 3: In Praise of Slow-Burning Cinema
October 13, 2009
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.