My list of the ten best films of 2007 goes to print on Wednesday in the Capital Times and I’ll post it here on Tuesday night. To whet your appetite here’s the shortlist of best (and worst) of 2007 with the additional bonus of the New Zealand box office grosses for each film. The keen-eyed […]
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Before we get too far into this great Summer of 07–08 I want to express some concern at how easy young Vettori seems to be taking defeat. He’s taking it graciously, magnanimously and generously to be sure. But he doesn’t look like he hates losing, like it eats away at him, corroding his very soul. In […]
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox have pushed back the proposed release date for James Cameron’s Avatar from Memorial Day 2009 (which is June 22) to December 18 2009. That’s a six month delay. Fox are giving availability of 3D screens and extra time for Weta to do a bang-up job on the …
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In the Summer of 1990 Christopher McCandless donated his life savings to Oxfam and, instead of going to Harvard Law School, headed West in search of himself, never to talk to his family again. The journey he took, and what he found and left behind on the way, is the subject of Sean Penn’s cracking […]
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Guardian Unlimited yesterday demonstrated the growing ubiquity of Flight of the Conchords with the caption to an article about business travel to Dubai. It’s business time, indeed.
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Ion Fiscuteanu, a Romanian stage and film actor known to international audiences for his role in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, died early Saturday in Bucharest. He was 70. “He was a strong character with strong ideas,” Mr. Puiu said of Mr. Fiscuteanu. “Every day he told me how much he hates Bucharest, how much he […]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”