We review Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy in HYSTERIA and German WWII period piece movie WUNDERKINDER. Plus Dan reports on his first Telluride Film Festival, four days of movies in the mountains of Colorado.
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. 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 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.”
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Hey Dan. I love your format. The podcast are dense as Xmas cake with info, only more digestable cause your style is so light and breezy. Bravo.