Something to watch tonight: Thursday 17 October

Life in Movement (Hyde/Mason, 2011)

Looking for an ‘on this day’ post I was delighted to find a film to recom­mend that is actu­ally avail­able – at least in New Zealand and Australia.

I pos­ted this review of Life in Movement on 16 October 2012:

In 2007, just before tak­ing up her sur­prise appoint­ment as the new dir­ect­or of the Sydney Dance Company, Tanja Liedtke was hit by an early morn­ing garbage truck and died in hos­pit­al. She was only 29. Life in Movement – a bril­liant doc­u­ment­ary by Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason – fol­lows her col­leagues over the next couple of years as they take her work on one final tour around the world and at the same time try and make sense of their loss. Well chosen extracts from Liedtke’s two main cho­reo­graph­ic works show an artist try­ing under­stand her­self through her work and it’s fas­cin­at­ing to see how that work is still inter­rog­at­ing – and explain­ing – her today.

Also in that Capital Times column: The Secret World of Arrietty (Studio Ghibli’s adapt­a­tion of The Borrowers); Liam Neeson in Taken 2; Walter Salles adapts Kerouac’s On the Road; the much more well-known doc­u­ment­ary, Searching for Sugar Man; Coasta Botes’ doc­u­ment­ary, The Last Dogs of Winter; and the “sub-literary non­sense” of The Words star­ring Bradley Cooper.

Where to watch Life in Movement

Aotearoa & Australia: Streaming on DocPlay

Rest of the world: Currently unavailable