NZIFF 2014 Endnotes
September 16, 2014
Our New Zealand International Film Festival correspondents select their personal highlights for 2014.
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Post-Festival Report 2014:
Cold in July
September 16, 2014
Last words on the New Zealand International Film Festival for 2014.
Flaws and All: Championing The Stranger and The Lady from Shanghai
September 1, 2014
In praise of two compromised Orson Welles films, still vital and almost joyful in their imposed messiness.
Post-Festival Report 2014:
A Curious Quintet
August 25, 2014
Reflections on five films at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Post-Festival Report 2014:
The Point of It
August 21, 2014
Closing notes on evil, activism, resistance, and the films that deserve a second chance at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Histories of Violence: Concerning Violence, Timbuktu, The Wonders
August 15, 2014
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Africa in the spotlight, plus Alice Rohrwacher’s surprise Grand Prix winner.
Tone Tests: Borgman, Enemy, Unnatural History, and Housebound
August 12, 2014
Between the films of Alex van Warmerdam, Denis Villeneuve, Alex Backhouse, and Gerard Johnstone at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival, tone is everything.
Marion Davies and Show People
August 10, 2014
Notes on the queen of silent comedy and her role in King Vidor’s hilarious Hollywood satire.
Power Structures:
Leviathan, Winter Sleep
August 9, 2014
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: two imposing Cannes winners explore the struggle between family, state and religion.
Eye for an Eye:
Wild Tales, The Reunion
August 9, 2014
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, revenge takes on many forms.
Desperate Living:
Two Days, One Night
August 8, 2014
The Dardennes’ latest is a small-scale underdog story of epic humanity.
Mid-Festival Report 2014:
The Shock of the New
August 7, 2014
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: double images, cinema as a frontier in Under the Skin and Manakamana, and respecting Hard to Be a God.
Abi King-Jones on Hot Air
August 6, 2014
Exploring the politics of climate change and why New Zealand government has yet to act accordingly.
God Complex:
The Reunion, Force Majeure
August 5, 2014
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: two brilliant Swedish takes on human relations.
(Extra)ordinary Stories: Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
August 5, 2014
Edgar Reitz’s powerful chronicle of 19th Century German history privileges the small narratives of ordinary folk.
“A closed mouth admits no flies”
August 4, 2014
Filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine on the murder mystery at the heart of their documentary The Galápagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden.
Suburban Mayhem: It Follows
August 3, 2014
David Robert Mitchell’s new feature creeps up on us in all the right ways.
Scenes from a Marriage: Winter Sleep
August 2, 2014
The weight of charity and power relations in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s superb Palme d’Or winner.
Roads to Nowhere:
Land Ho!, Maps to the Stars
August 2, 2014
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: from Iceland to Hollywood, from the warm-hearted to the satirically grotesque.
Contemplating National Gallery and PRISMISM
August 1, 2014
The parallel spaces of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery documentary and Emil McAvoy’s first exhibition of paintings.