A couple of years ago, while I was running the bar at Downstage, I was lucky enough to share a couple of conversations with acting legend (and Laureate) George Henare who was playing Dracula at the time. He told us some tales of shooting the New Zealand historical epic “The Governor” back in the late …
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In lieu of something more substantive, and just before I crash for the night: [kml_flashembed movie=“http://videogum.com/v/YfTNFhdejPlq6” width=“448” height=“356” wmode=“transparent” /] [from this year’s Treehouse of Horror, via Kottke and Videogum]
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From a current favourite micro-blog, What Would Don Draper Do? 91. Dear Don Draper, Do you have any views on men using Facebook?Yes, the same ones I have of men wearing brassieres. I’m up to Ep 5 of Season Two of “Mad Men”, courtesy of the Internet, and I’m really enjoying it. Like Season One, […]
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Here’s a free mp3 of a track from the new Flight of the Conchords LP (released April 22):Flight of the Conchords — Ladies of the World [via Largehearted Boy]
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Jemaine Clement rhapsodizes about his Masterton childhood in the pages of Maxim: “My family were working-class,” he says. “My mom worked in a cheese factory, my dad worked in a slaughterhouse, my grandma worked in a clothes factory, and my granddad worked in a biscuit factory. So we always had biscuits and cheese and underpants.”
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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.”