Local audiences can pretend they are Academy voters for the next few weeks because almost all the big nominees are being released at the same time. It’s the NZ way…
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The most pleasure I have had in a cinema so far this year wasn’t at a film. In 2011, the New York Philharmonic produced a brief concert revival of Stephen…
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For years I’ve been complaining about films that give audiences everything on a plate - they tell what you should be thinking and feeling, leaving no room for us. This…
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The most purely emotional experience I have had in a cinema this year was watching the delightful documentary Young @ Heart during the Film Festival. It’s a life-affirming (and by…
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Oh, what kind of year is 2008 that has two Coen Brothers films within it? In February I was swooning over No Country for Old Men and now, just a…
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Keira Knightley may only be 23 but (along with Daniel Craig and Simon Pegg) she's been given the unenviable job of saving the British film industry, a challenging task for…
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