After what seems like weeks of holidays, Summer Noelles and Matinee Idles, Radio New Zealand National is pretty much back to normal which means the return of my fortnightly movie…
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After years of auteur theory we have become conditioned to describe films as products of their director and so in my first draft of this review I started off talking…
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I’ve been busy over the last few weeks working on New Zealand’s biggest participatory film event, the V 48 Hours which reaches its local climax tonight at the Embassy Theatre.…
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Of all directors currently working in the Hollywood mainstream Michael Mann is arguably the greatest stylist. No one at the multiplex has more control of the pure aesthetics of filmmaking,…
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This week, three films which trade on a twist or revelation (to varying degrees of success). First, Seven Pounds reunites the creative team behind 2006’s excellent The Pursuit of Happyness…
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This week's Capital Times film review: Mr Bean's Holiday (Steve Bendelack); Twice Upon A Time (Antoine De Caunes); Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro); The Illusionist (Neil Burger); Breaking and Entering…
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