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July 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Simon Ogston
Simon Ogston is an Auckland-based producer, director and camera-operator. Among other things, Simon has made a number of feature-length films about New Zealand bands. These include Rumble & Bang, Gone With The Weird, Antarctic Angels and the Unknown Blues and Sheen of Gold. His latest film is about Bill Direen, A Memory of Others and it screens at this year’s New […]Archive
March 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: DJ T-Rock
Travis Lee Eller a.k.a. DJ T-Rock is an Actor, Writer, Director Turntablist and Music Producer and is also half of the duo DJ T-Rock and Squashy Nice. Born in the mountains of North Carolina, he arrived in LA over fifteen years ago, having toured the world as a professional DJ and appearing on over thirty […]Archive
November 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 38 – Costa Botes
Welcome to episode 38 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with Wellington filmmaker Costa Botes. I first met Costa Botes about 10 years ago, I was writing a profile on him for a magazine. I visited his house for a couple of hours over a couple of days and came […]Archive
October 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Musical Worlds of John Waters: Filmmaker, Author, Icon
It’s one thing to like music, to follow it, to read about it, absorb it – but music is just a part of the larger pop-culture wheel. Usually you scratch a music fan and find someone obsessed with movies, TV, books, comics…all or any of them as well. And so it is with our favourite […]Archive
October 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The John Waters Interview: From The Archives
I have John Waters on the line, cult film-maker, writer, visual artist, collector and curator, journalist, raconteur and lifelong music fan. His voice, that unmistakable purr, camp but measured, a highbrow hick so happy to talk. The subject/s? Anything. Everything. He’s back in his home. Baltimore. The only place John Waters could come from. We […]Archive
August 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Tom Roston: I Lost It At The Video Store – A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era
I Lost It At The Video Store: A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era Tom Roston The Critical Press This well-intentioned, slim volume aims to bring together a range of voices around the idea of the local video store being the birth place of modern independent cinema and indie-filmmaking; most famously Quentin Tarantino and […]Archive
June 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 13 Neil LaBute
You might normally find an appreciation of Neil LaBute under film or theatre – rather than discussion of him as an author. Actually, you might not find a written appreciation of Neil LaBute anywhere…his work hardly ever ends happily, barely starts out that way and usually gets toughest in the middle. He works without including […]Archive
January 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Hateful Eight: Film
The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino FilmColony/The Weinstein Company Where the last two Tarantino films have left me cold – Django almost worked, but it was too long and had no real point despite claiming it might – The Hateful Eight lingers; heck it might actually be the best QT film of all. Like Jackie […]Archive
May 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 75 – John Waters, Wellington, 2011
I’m not sure I’ve ever paid money to hear someone speak. (A spoken-word show or lecture I mean, not counting Writers Festival panels, stand-up comedy and theatre). But if there was ever anyone I would pay money to see talk it’s John Waters. (Actually it’s probably Henry Rollins too). But I’ve been lucky to see […]Archive
June 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman