This week’s Capital Times film review, lavishly illustrated as usual: Hairspray (Adam Shankman); Ratatouille (Brad Bird); The Invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel); Next (Lee Tamahori); Romulus, My Father (Richard Roxburgh). This is the first time that I’ve really felt the pressure of the 550 word limit and some of the writing has suffered as a result, so apologies for that.
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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.”