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Festivals
Show Me Shorts 2012
Now in its seventh year, the festival showcases a variety of short films from New Zealand and around the world. It also includes seminars from visiting filmmakers, and a Short Film Lab in partnership with Script-to-Screen. Continue reading
Beasts, Kingdoms, Holy Motors: The New Zealand International Film Festivals 2012
The 2012 festival lineup is spectacular, with yet another record-breaking number of films direct from Cannes, and the world premières of more than half a dozen locally-made features. Continue reading
Documentary Edge 2012
Now in its seventh year, the festival is committed to giving film-goers the opportunity to sample a wide range of documentaries from New Zealand and around the world. In that spirit, this year’s programme is appropriately massive, comprising 72 films. Continue reading
Her Idiot Brother: The Color Wheel
At a breezy 83 minutes, the film’s snappy dialogue—largely improvised, as is a hallmark of the genre—maintains a neat energy. The set-pieces are terrific, but the duo’s final conversation—a nine-minute single shot—is among the most gripping and dramatic that the subgenre has yet produced. Continue reading
WCS 2012: Eames: The Architect and the Painter
For those who know Eames only from his chair, this film will be eye-opening. Far more than merely the titular architect and painter, the couple’s work anticipated our hyper-networked culture, and turned a passion for life-long learning into a global brand. Continue reading
WCS 2012: The Swell Season
The directorial trio has assembled an intimate, monochromatic glimpse at the people behind the music, their lives before (and after) their rise to fame, and the toll that it has taken on them. Continue reading
Best Worst Podcast, Episode Eight
Doug and Jacob are joined by guest Hugh Lilly, and as a triumvirate we go head-on into anticipatory World Cinema Showcase seizures, discussing the 14 films we’ve already seen—and the ones we’re looking forward to. Continue reading
World Cinema Showcase 2012
Now in its fourteenth year, the Showcase arrives for a fortnight every autumn and functions as an entrée to the NZIFF in July. Chief among the stand-outs in this year’s excellent programme is Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret. Continue reading
Magical is Art: Under African Skies
Joe Berlinger’s new documentary, one of two by the director in the Showcase’s programme, is about the making, the lasting impact, and the attendant political controversy of Paul Simon’s Graceland, an album that has never not been cool. Continue reading
French FF 2012: Un amour de jeunesse
Hansen-Løve’s third feature authentically examines its central relationship (and its aftermath) with bracing honesty, and, at times, a touching warmth. As Olivia, Lola Créton is remarkable: her skilful portrayal conveys the full weight of Olivia’s past. Continue reading
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