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December 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Cover Girl (December 3)
Well, we made it – this week is the final screening for 2018 of The Wellington Film Society. What a year. A huge range of amazing films, all shown on one of the biggest screens in one of the greatest movie venues in this part of the world. It has been a year of transition […]Archive
November 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – After The Storm (November 26)
It’s nearly wrap up time for the 2018 Wellington Film Society program – just two weeks to go, and two films to go after last week’s hiatus. This week the society brings us After The Storm, a modern classic by Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. It sounds like a must-see – check out the full notes here and […]Archive
October 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Daughters of Darkness (October 29)
The Wellington Film Society is back tonight – after last weekend’s pause for Labour Weekend. Here we are now with Halloween almost at the doorstep, as it were. And so…to Daughters of Darkness. Re-released more than a decade after its 1971 debut, Daughters of Darkness has lost none of the eerie, subterranean fascination it held for its […]Archive
October 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Neon Bull [Boi Neon] (October 15)
The Wellington Film Society rolls on – there’ll be a break next week for Labour Weekend. Last week we were treated to China’s Van Goghs. This week it’s Neon Bull. Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull takes us to Brazil and the world of the vaquejada – two cowboys (“vaqueiros”) on horseback pursue a bull, seeking to pin it between two […]Archive
October 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – China’s Van Goghs (October 8)
The Wellington Film Society rolls on. Last week it was Mustang. This week it’s back to documentary, with China’s Van Goghs. One of the most affecting moments in China’s Van Goghs unfolds in a small art gallery, where the documentary’s protagonists and their friends eagerly gather to watch the 1956 Vincent van Gogh biopic Lust for Life. Their […]Archive
September 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Mustang (October 1)
The Wellington Film Society hits into October, meaning the end of the year is on its way…last week it was Lewat Djam Malam – shown internationally as “After The Curfew” – this week it’s Deniz Gamze Ergüven‘s Oscar-nominated first feature, Mustang. “Its emotions are universally recognizable, as is the powerful yearning of its young, female […]Archive
September 23, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – After The Curfew/Lewat Djam Malam (September 24)
The Wellington Film Society showed Paris, Texas last week and record numbers turned out for that screening. This week it’s to Usmar Ismail, a pioneer of Indonesia cinema for Lewat Djam Malam – shown internationally as “After The Curfew”. Released in 1954, restored in 2012 this will be a must-see for fans of rare, rewarding […]Archive
September 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Santi-Vina (September 10)
The Wellington Film Society screening of Tangerine last week was a treat. And this week it’s back to Thai film for Santi-Vina in fact the first Thai film shot on 35mm in colour. Long believed lost and the film’s director Thavi Na Bangchang died in 1970, believing the last 35mm print had been irreparably damaged […]Archive
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 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