I draw your attention to Steve Garden’s survey of the 11 Best Unreleased Films from this year’s Film Festival at Lumiére. This year I made the mistake of using the Festival as a bulk preview option for forthcoming releases and missed almost all Steve’s list. Next year I will approach things differently.
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster, editor, consultant and producer of RNZ’s Widescreen movie programme.
He was cinema reviewer for the Capital Times weekly newspaper from September 2006 until its demise in April 2013, 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, produced and co-hosted the movie podcast, Cinematica, once edited Wellington’s premier lifestyle magazine, FishHead, and now co-hosts and co-produces Rancho Notorious, a podcast about movies and other cool stuff.
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."
