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 Documentary Edge 2012
The People vs. George Lucas USA / UK | 2010 | Dir. Alexandre O. Phillipe | English | 93 mins. A would-be thesis on the cult of Star Wars, Alexandre O. Phillipe’s 93-minute exploration of the boundaries of fandom feels, for its first half hour, like an extended trailer—but, happily, it eventually congeals into something like an actual film. The documentary is mix of interviews—both … Continue reading DocEdge 2011: The People vs. George Lucas
David Wants to Fly Austria/Germany/Switzerland | 2010 | Dir. David Sieveking | German, English & Hindi | 96 mins. In 2006, David Lynch wrote a book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity, about the artistic benefits that can be reaped from a practice he has been engaged in since 1973: Transcendental Meditation (TM). In this feature-length exposé, David Sieveking, a German amateur filmmaker … Continue reading DocEdge 2011: David Wants to Fly
