It’s never been a tougher time to be running a film festival. In addition to the usual commercial considerations of just selling enough tickets to stay afloat, each year brings with it fresh wrinkles to be accommodated. The window of availability of titles shrinks every year because distributors don’t want to sit on their investment. […]
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Not by me. Christ, I’m too busy with being on holiday and preparing for my forthcoming return to the Wellington stage to think about summing up a decade in cinema (particularly as I wasn’t watching much film for the first half of it). Luckily, Ant Timpson has done the work for me. Check out his […]
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I fully intended to bring some intellectual acuity back to film commentary this week; maybe toss around terms like mise en scène and cognitive dissonance; maybe name drop Bresson and his thematic austerity and formal rigour. Then I saw little Kiwi battler, The Devil Dared Me To, a hand-made low-brow entertainment from the vodka and …
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This week’s Capital Times film review: Miss Potter (Chris Noonan); The Descent (Neil Marshall); Freedom Writers (Richard LaGravanese) and The Good German (Steven Soderbergh). Last week’s Wild Hogs review missed the cut in the paper itself so I resubmitted it but there’s no need to go over that ground again here. Too late in the evening for lots of links. Sorry.
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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.”