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September 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Tangerine (September 3)
I was away for the Wellington Film Society screening of Manila In The Claws of Light last week. But I’m glad to be back in time for this Monday’s showing of Tangerine. I loved this film – it was funny and sad all at once and so profound, the story that helped to sell it […]Archive
August 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Manila In The Claws of Light (August 27)
The Wellington Film Society’s program continues – last week it was Baden Baden this week it’s Manila In The Claws of Light. When Lino Brocka died in a car crash in 1991, the Philippines lost its outstanding director – a man who, despite the constraints of a commercial industry and vicious censorship under Marcos, succeeded […]Archive
August 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Baden Baden (August 20)
The Wellington Film Society’s program is back after an amazing run of Film Festival movies to keep everyone busy – and (for the most part) happy. Now we’re back to regular weekly Film Society offerings. And first up after the winter break is Baden Baden by Rachel Lang. A coming-of-age comedy about a ditzy French […]Archive
July 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – L’Inhumaine [The Inhuman Woman] (July 23)
The Wellington Film Society’s program will take a break for the next couple of weeks to welcome The International Film Festival but there’s one last picture to go. Last week’s it was Fidelio: Alice’s Journey, this week we have the oldest film in the program: L’Inhumaine. Though active into the 1970s Marcel L’Herbier is best […]Archive
July 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Young Torless (July 9)
The Wellington Film Society’s program will soon take a break for a couple of weeks to welcome The International Film Festival but there’s still a couple of weeks of films and then the program returns in mid-August for another few months. Following on from last week’s showing of Les Cowboys we travel back in time […]Archive
March 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – The Lady From Shanghai (Mon, March 12)
The Wellington Film Society’s program for 2018 is well underway now. We’re moving up towards week three, film three. Last week’s screening of Fantastic Planet was wonderful. From surreal French cartooning to film noir it goes – with a screening of The Lady From Shanghai.Archive
January 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Film
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Director: Martin McDonagh Blueprint Pictures/Fox Searchlight Pictures We might be placed just outside of small-town Ebbing in Missouri, but tonally we are all over the map when Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) paints a none-more-black comedy with a few extra dark shades of the old ultraviolence…Archive
August 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 508
V/A, Pulp Fiction [OST] (1994) I saw the film six times on the big screen. I went to it three days in a row. Final year of school. Friday afternoon. So good we could only talk about it all night after, on the piss, already quoting lines. So back the next day with a new […]Archive
June 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Edward Ross: Filmish – A Graphic Journey Through Film
Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film Edward Ross SelfMadeHero Well, it’s all there in the title really, here cartoonist/illustrator/film-buff Edward Ross takes a tour through cinema, painting himself into the picture in a narrator-role occasionally, but most often delighting in drawing up key scenes from iconic movies. Filmish is divided into seven thematic studies, seven […]Archive
September 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Sarah McMullan
Sarah McMullan is a freelance publicist and film reviewer. She had a six-year stint reviewing films at Radio New Zealand, has worked for the New Zealand International Film Festival and currently writes for The 13th Floor and her own The Call Her Square Eye. Here are five films that have stayed with her… I worked […]Archive
August 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman