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August 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 75 – Gaylene Preston
Welcome to episode 75 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I was lucky to have a chat with legendary Kiwi film director Gaylene Preston. We talked about her career, her work, many of her films but in particular the focus was on her brilliant new film, My Year With […]Archive
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