Like students swotting for exams New Zealand film distributors seem to have run out of year for all the films they have to release so there are some really big…
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So, after trawling through the many thousands of words written about cinema in these pages this year, I suppose you want me to come to some conclusions? Do some “summing…
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God is in the house this week. He turns up in the values of a wealthy Tennessee family who adopt a poor black kid and turn him into a champion,…
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Lars von Trier on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (via Kottke and Gruber): I saw the film when it came out. I was in my early twenties. The first time I saw…
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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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