Documentary filmmaker, and Dom-Post movie reviewer, Graeme Tuckett kindly gave me permission to post this lovely appreciation of Barry Barclay: Its been a couple of days now since the phone…
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Like the buses on Courtenay Place after 8 o’clock on a Sunday night, you can wait what seems like forever for a cinema masterpiece and then two come along at…
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I’ve just seen the news that filmmaker Barry Barclay has passed away. 63 is no sort of age really. Ngati was one of the first NZ films I ever saw…
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A little late, but still recommended, Jane Campion remembers Janet Frame and making An Angel at My Table, in The Guardian: Each room and even parts of rooms were dedicated…
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In 2003 the paper-thin romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days paired Matthew McConaughey with Kate Hudson and made over 100 million dollars. The rules of Hollywood…
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No Country for Old Men is essential cinema in two senses of the word. First and foremost you must see it, probably more than once. But it is also cinema…
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