Part two of the epic summing up of cinema in 2013 – featuring Graeme Tuckett (again), Liam Maguren, Marie O’Sullivan, David Larsen, Sarah Watt and Glenn Kenny.
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Part two of the epic summing up of cinema in 2013 – featuring Graeme Tuckett (again), Liam Maguren, Marie O’Sullivan, David Larsen, Sarah Watt and Glenn Kenny.
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Simon, Kailey and Dan (plus guests Graeme Tuckett, Darren Bevan, Sam McCosh, Rachel Taylor and Andrew Todd) look at the year in cinema – their top films, worst experiences, trends and what they are looking forward to in 2014.
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I went into The Turning in the dark and in some ways I wish I hadn’t and in others I’m glad I did. I’ll see if I can explain.
The film is a collection of related shorts, each based on a single story from Tim Winton’s acclaimed collection of the same name. That much I knew. As story after story rolled through, each produced by a different Australian creative team, each taking a unique and original approach to storytelling, I started to see connections between them. Many of these connections were visual – the recurrence of rusty abandoned cars, people living in caravans. Some were geographic – a Western Australian mining community surrounded on one side by red dirt and on the other by the ocean. Damaged, corroded and corrupted masculinity. Redheads. The name “Vic”.
Afterwards I read a copy of the glossy souvenir booklet that viewers get to take away with them when they buy a ticket for this “special cinematic event” and those connections became clearer. In Winton’s book all of the stories inter-connect – characters re-occur (often at different stages of their lives) and events we see in one story might be referred to obliquely in another.
I managed to fit in a couple of appearances on Radio New Zealand National in the busy late-December period.
Firstly, The Listener’s Helene wong and I joined Simon Morris on the Arts on Sunday for a chat about the state of New Zealand cinema in 2013 prompted by the recent New Zealand Film Awards (or “Moas”).
Then, just before everyone broke for the Christmas break I paid Kathryn Ryan a visit at Nine to Noon to discuss my highlights of the year and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon is the New Zealand’s number one morning show.
Vince Vaughan remakes the Canadian hit Starbuck as Delivery Man, the late James Gandolfini stars with Julia-Louis Dreyfuss in Enough Said and the backing singers get the spotlight in 20 Feet from Stardom.
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