This week, as part of the general rebirth of Funerals & Snakes, I’m proud to unveil a new masthead: Designed by renowned Wellington graphic designer and hand-lettering artist Sarah Maxey, it breathes some life (and some colour) into the place. You can see more examples of Sarah’s work at her own site and, for a […]
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May I direct your attention to the new series of “The Gravy”, a top notch art documentary series from Wellington’s Sticky Pictures. There’s a heapin’ helpin’ of interesting content lined up including a whole episode on theatre-maker Jo Randerson and her show Good Night — The End (Downstage, Sep 2009). That’s S04E03, folks. Also of …
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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.”