It’s never been a tougher time to be running a film festival. In addition to the usual commercial considerations of just selling enough tickets to stay afloat, each year brings…
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Once again, things have gone a bit quiet around here but I have been producing some writing for the Internet at Russell Brown's Public Address blog for the last week…
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Full disclosure: I wrote a play about Michael Jackson once ("Dirty Doris", BATS 1995) so I’ll confess to always being interested in the real character behind the tabloid and music…
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The theme for the week seems to be romance and some of the finest love stories of recent (or in fact any) year have just made their way to our…
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Festival titles are returning to cinemas at such a rate that it seems like pre-Festival cinemagoer cynicism was well-placed. 50% of this week’s new releases were screening locally only a…
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While the Film Festival continues to deliver untold pleasures to Wellington cinephiles, the commercial distributors dump (shall we say) less-heralded product at our currently very quiet multiplexes and arthouses. My…
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