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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Memory of Others, Antarctic Angels and The Unknown Blues, Back To The Future, Bell Bird Pictures, Bill Direen, Cherry 2000, Director, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Festival, Filmmaker, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Simon Ogston, Gone With The Weird, http://www.bellbirdpictures.co.nz/, Movie, Movies, NZ International Film Festival, Raising Arizona, Rumble & Bang, Sheen Of Gold, Simon Ogston, Special Guest, The Trump Presidency ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Actor, DJ, DJ T-ROck, DJ T-Rock and Squashy Nice, Film, Filmmaker, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: DJ T-Rock, Hip-Hop, Juice, Movies, North by Northwest, Once Upon A Time In The West, Special Guest, The Sounds In Their Heads, The Warriors, Travis Lee Eller, Turntablism, Turntablist, Warriors, Why Records, Writer, Young Frankenstein ·

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March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews

Philip Matthews is a senior reporter with Fairfax Media in Christchurch and is a former film reviewer with the NZ Listener. He blogs about films at Second Sight and is on Twitter as @secondzeit. Here are Five Films That Have Stayed With Him… 1 – Solaris: This is such an intensely sorrowful film. If I was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged @secondzeit, 1956, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1992, A Man Escaped The Shawkshank Redemption, Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkosvky, Blue Velvet, Christchurch, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Fairfax Media, Film, Film Review, Film Reviewer, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews, http://secondstogo.blogspot.co.nz/, Inland Empire, Lost Highway, Martin Scorcese, Mirror, Movie Review, Movie Reviewer, Movies, Mulholland Drive, NZ Listener, Paul Schrader, Philip Matthews, Remake, Robert Bresson, Second Sight, secondstogo.blogspot.com, Solaris, Special Guest, Stalker, Steven Soderbergh, Taxi Driver, The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Travis Bickle, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Vertigo, William Friedkin ·

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February 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Adam Fresco

Adam Fresco works in film, theatre and TV as a writer, director, producer, performer and professional acting coach. Born in London, he arrived in Auckland a decade ago, having worked in professional British Theatre and TV. The Director of DramaTrain.co.nz and Producer for Imagine Studios NZ, Adam is a self-confessed film nut. He regularly reviews […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 8 1/2, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Acting Coach, Adam Fresco, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Braindead, Brazil, Bruce Campbell, Cabaret, Casino, Citizen Kane, Cloud Atlas, Dancer In The Dark, David Lynch, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead, Die Hard, Director, DramaTrain, DramaTrain.co.nz, Duck Soup, Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, F.W. Murnau, Film Review, Films, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Adam Fresco, Flicks.co.nz, Freaks, Hard Boiled, In Bruges, Inception, Jaws, John Carpenter, John Woo, Lenny, Leon, Lesson of the Evil, Luc Besson, Marathon Man, Monty Python, Movie, Movie Review, Mulholland Drive, Oldboy, Pink Floyd The Wall, Planet FM's Kick Arts, Producer, Quentin Tarantino, Requiem For A Dream, Sam Raimi, Seven Psychopaths, Sleeper, Special Guest, Spellbound, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Terry Gilliam, The Battle of Brazil, The Dead Zone, The Devil's Rejects, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, The French Connection, The Hitcher, The King of New York, The Life of Brian, The Lobster, The Thing, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Spinal Tap, Throne of Blood, Velvet Goldmine, Weekend, Wild at Heart, Wolf Creek 2, Woody Allen, Writer ·

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February 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones is a landscape gardener, constructor, designer etc.  He arrived in Sydney 17 years ago via Dunedin, Nelson, Motueka and well NZ in general. He’s never written about music or played in a band but has been surrounded by music, musicians, engineers, producers, writers et al since he was a teenager. His brother Damian […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, All About Eve, All About My Mother, Apocalypse Now, Australia, Barry Gifford, Bill & Ted, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Burden of Dreams, Cafe Meow, Carnivale, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Film, Film Review, Films, Fitzcarraldo, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Jimmy Jones, George Carlin, Heart of Darkness, Hearts of Darkness, Inland Empire, Jimmy Jones, Jodorowsky, John Waters, Kika, Klaus Kinski, Lost Highway, Mick Jagger, Movie Review, Movies, Mulholland Drive, Santa Sangre, Sante Sangre, Special Guest, Sydney, Werner Herzog, Wild at Heart ·

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January 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute

Elaine Shute is a volunteer programmer at WERU-FM, a community radio station in Downeast Maine. Her show ‘On the Wing’, a three-hour eclectic mix of music, airs on alternating Mondays, and can be streamed on demand. Here are five films that have stayed with her….  1 – Breaking Away:  I love a coming-of-age story, and – along […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged After Hours, Al Capone, Alice In Wonderland, America, Breaking Away, Brian De Palma, Daniel Sten, David Mamet, DJ, Elaine Shute, Film, Film Review, Five Film, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute, Griffin Dunne, Jonathan Demme, Julie Harris, Martin Scorsese, Movie Review, Movies, Radio, Rosanna Arquette, Shirley Jackson, Something Wild, Special Guest, The Feelies, The Haunting, The Shining, To Kill A Mockingbird, Untouchables, WERU-FM ·

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December 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Off The Tracks’ (Belated) Christmas Message: Year in Review 2015

Last year I was a day late, even slacker this year, sorry… but I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and thanks for reading Off The Tracks. Three full years we’ve been operating now – I say ‘we’ because it’s due to you and me. I had a week off in Hawke’s Bay where […]
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December 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 11 – Alan Stuart

It’s the final post of the year regarding the podcast – the final episode for 2015, here we have episode eleven – a chat with Alan Stuart. I met Alan years ago when I worked in music retail. He was a regular customer, we’d chat about blues and British bands from the 60s. We still […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged "Singer", Alan Francis Stuart, Alan Stuart, Blogger, Britain, Conversation, Cultural Critic, Discussion, England, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, Five Films That Stay With Me, Interview, Movies, Music, Musician, Podcast, Simon Sweetman, Songwriting, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 11 – Alan Stuart, Wellington, Wiseblood ·

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December 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Kina Sai

Kina Sai is an Auckland musician who goes under the moniker Sinatra Frank. Here are, ahem, “five films” that say with her… I’ve realised through this exercise I don’t watch movies. The last time I was seriously watching movies was when I was a teenager and when I was a teenager it was the nineties. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 8 1/2, Amelie, Batman, Dark Knight Rises, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Federico Fellini, Fellini, Film, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Kina Sai, Frank, Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon, Happiness, Jesus' Son, John Travolta, Kina Sai, Marilyn Monroe, Movie, Movie Review, Movies, Peter Sellers, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pulp Fiction, Sinatra Frank, Special Guest, The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, Third Eye Blind, Todd Solondz, Trailer, Twist, Uma Thurman, Urge Overkill, YouTube ·

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November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood

Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 'Three Colours', 2001: A Space Odyssey, Adam Sandler, Alien, Aliens, Andrew Paul Wood, Andrew Wood, Art, Art Critic, Art History, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, Bridesmaids, Critic, Cultural Critic, District 9, Film, Film Review, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Ghostbusters, Hannah Montana, Hollywood, Jem and the Holograms, Josie and the Pussycats, Jupiter Ascending, Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, Melancholia, Metropolis, Movie Review, Movies, Paul Feig, Queen Margot, Remake, Sequel, Special Guest, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, The Hobbit, The Karamazovs, The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Matrix, The NeverEnding Story, The Princess Bride, The Ridiculous 6, The Shining, Watership Down, Willow, Writer ·

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November 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Gregory O’Brien

Wellington-based, Gregory O’Brien is a full-time poet, artist, essayist, curator and cultural odd-jobs-man. Recent books include a monograph on Pat Hanly and a collection of poems, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool. His book length essay News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (2007) was propelled into being by a strict diet of Fred Frith, The Necks, Olivier […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Man Escaped, Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrey Tarkovsky, Art, Arts, Ashik Kerib, AUP, Beau Travail, Bela Tarr, Claire Denis, Critic, Criticism, David Bowie, Directors, Film, Film Directors, Films, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Gregory O’Brien, Florian Habicht, Fred Frith, Greg O'Brien, Gregory O'Brien, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Bittov, Iva Bittova, Kaikohe Demolition, Land of The Long White Cloud, Land of The Long White Could, Movies, Nostalgia For The Light, Painting, Patricio Guzman, Poet, Poetry, Pulp, Pulp: A Film About Life Death and Supermarkets, Robert Bresson, Rubbing From A Live Man, Rubbings From A Live Man, Sergei Parajanov, Seu Jorge, Step Across The Border, Tarkovsky, The Battle of Chile, The Colour of Pomegrantes, The Legend of Suram Fortress, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, VUP, Werckmeister Harmonies, Woodenhead, Writing ·

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November 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Julie Lamb

Julie Lamb is an accountant by occupation and a musician by preoccupation…She watches movies for escapism and fun.  The Julie Lamb Band is about to embark on the shortest 2015 tour in the multiverse – Nov 20 King St Live, Masterton; Nov 21 Cabana, Napier – they’ll be hanging out with Vorn and The Spines. Here are five […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged About Time, Arthur, Calendar Girls, Christopher Cross, Dark Horse, Die Hard, Double Jeopardy, Film Review, Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Julie Lamb, Julie Lamb, Julie Lamb Band, Lean On Me, Mad Money, Movie Review, Movies, Overboard, Pretty Woman, Ron Clarke Story, Roy Orbison, Shawkshank Redemption, Stick It, Take The Lead, Terminator, The Help, The Sixth Sense ·
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