This week Michael Haneke’s Oscar-winning Amour, Cirque du Soleil take us Worlds Away and teenage witches replace teenage vampires in the affections of teenage audiences – Beautiful Creatures. We also find out about film diary website letterboxd.com.
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Recently, we spent a very enlightening hour with Finola Dwyer, producer of An Education, Quartet and a host of NZ features. She talks about starting her career in NZ as well as working with Dustin Hoffman on his first film as director.
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It’s A Good to Die Hard, we get romantic with the Nicholas Sparks adaptation Safe Haven, Judd Apatow tells us that This is 40 and Simon and Dan interview Quartet producer Finola Dwyer.
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Denzel Washington goes from train driving to plane flying in Flight, Movie 43 may not be a movie at all and we interview Tearepa Kahi, the director of the smash hit Kiwi movie Mt. Zion.
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The first Kiwi feature of 2013 showcases musical as well as screen talent: Stan Walker stars in Mt. Zion; The hunt for Osama Bin Laden is brought vividly to life in Zero Dark Thirty & Alfred Hitchcock gets a biopic starring Anthony Hopkins – AH as AH.
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The heavyweight championship of world movies gets underway this week as the Oscar contenders come out swinging. Daniel Day Lewis plays Lincoln for Steven Spielberg and Silver Linings Playbook has a contender in all four acting nominations. We also go to France for two different examples of father-son rivalry (The Impossible, You Will Be My Son) and we have a guest reviewer – Beth Brash from eatandgreet.co.nz – for Step Up To The Plate.
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