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May 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Le Quattro Volte (May 7)
The Wellington Film Society’s program continues – after Things To Come last week it’s time for the first film of May. Le Quattro Volte sounds like a must see. And I missed it when it was on at the Film Festival back about seven years ago now. So we’re lucky to have another chance to […]Archive
April 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Things To Come (April 30)
The Wellington Film Society’s program continues – last week it was a contemporary story (24 Weeks) and now we travel back in time to look at the future with William Carlos Menzies’ 1936 take on a future dystopian vision, Things To Come. Based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name, the black and […]Archive
April 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – 24 Weeks (April 23)
The Wellington Film Society’s program continues – last week it was Mon Oncle, now we’re moving forward several decades to something far more modern, contemporary with 24 Weeks (2016). It’s a tough watch about a touch subject – Astrid (Julia Jentsch) must choose whether or not to have a late term abortion when she discovers […]Archive
April 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – The Adventures of Prince Achmed (April 9)
The Wellington Film Society’s program resumes – following a break from Easter. We left off with an animated film – The Illusionist (L’Illisioniste). And we return with one too… The oldest existing feature-length animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The work of Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger – the film features several famous avant-garde animators and a […]Archive
March 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Une Femme Est Une Femme (Mon, March 19)
The Wellington Film Society’s program rolls on. Week four. I loved last screening of The Lady From Shanghai – my first time seeing the film too. This week’s screening is Une Femme Est Une Femme (or A Woman Is A Woman) by Jean-Luc Godard, it’s a co-screening with the Alliance Française as part of The French […]Archive
January 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: 2018 Films To Screen at Wellington’s Iconic Embassy Theatre
New Zealand’s largest Film Society will move to screening at Wellington’s iconic Embassy Theatre after the demise of the Paramount in late 2017. The Wellington Film Society will launch its 2018 programme with a screening of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985) on 26 February. The Embassy Theatre will for the first time host the entire film society programme […]Archive
January 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: 2018 Schedule
The Wellington Film Society’s 2018 Schedule has just been released. It’s a new year, there’s the excitement of a new home – The Embassy – and so plenty of space for new members. There’s also this list of great films for 2018:Archive
March 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers Week: Anna Smaill – Where Music Reigns
Anna Smaill: Where Music Reigns Embassy Theatre Thursday, March 10 For this Writers Week event it was Anna Smaill in conversation with Kate De Goldi, discussing Smaill’s novel, The Chimes. Thoughtfully, De Goldi also included discussion of Smaill’s wonderful first book, her volume of poetry, The Violinst in Spring, prompting a reading from it to […]Archive
June 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 84 – Year of the Horse, Wellington, 1998
I can’t believe I’ve held on to some movie tickets – but I did love this film, Neil Young’s Year of the Horse; saw it first at the Wellington Film Festival in 1998, on the giant screen at the Embassy – in fact I’ve already written about it here, as one of the Movies of […]Archive
May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman