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August 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Housebound: Film

Housebound Director: Gerard Johnstone Semi-Professional It’s getting rave reviews – and at the Wellington premiere/Film Festival screening you would think it was the greatest film this country had ever seen but Housebound is good, not great. It’s likeable, it looks great, and mostly acts the part but in that strange billing of “comedy/horror” it ends […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Comedy/Horror, Film, Film Review, Gerard Johnstone, Horror, Morgana O'Reilly, Movie, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ Film, NZIFF, Rima Te Wiata, The Jaquie Brown Diaries ·

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July 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Frank: Film

Frank Director: Lenny Abrahamson Runaway Fridge Productions/Element Pictures/Film4 If you’ve ever cared about music at all – and you’re reading this site so chances are you have/do – then you must see Frank. Frank is a wonderful film – and there are reasons to see it for what it offers as a film, not least […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Chris Sievey, Film, Film Review, Frank, Frank Sidebottom, Jon Ronson, Lenny Abrahamson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbinder, Movie, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Stephen Rennicks ·

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July 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Life, Death, Supermarkets, Wedding Photography: Florian Habicht’s Film About Pulp

Berlin-based Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht isn’t even a fan of music docos or concert films. He’s not well-versed in them at any rate, whereas you might assume going in to his latest movie, Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets that he was a fan of the genre. Well, he didn’t grow up with […]
Posted in Blog, Interviews · Tagged Death and Supermarkets, Director, Film, Film Director, Film Festival, Florian Habicht, Interview, Jarvis Cocker, Kaikohe Demolition, Liebestraume, Life Death Supermarkets Wedding Photography: Florian Habicht's Film About Pulp, Love Story, Movie Director, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Pulp, Pulp: A Film About Life, Rubbings From A Live Man, Wedding Photography, Woodenhead ·

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July 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Pulp – A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets: Film

Pulp: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets Director: Florian Habicht Pistachio Pictures Florian Habicht’s film about Pulp is not quite a band doco, never just a concert film and somehow it’s one of the very best band docos you could see, and a whole new approach to that stale turd that is the concert […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Auckland, Britpop, Concert Film, Doco, England, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Florian Habicht, Jarvis Cocker, Movie Review, Music Doco, Music Documentary, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Pulp, Pulp: A Film About Life Death & Supermarkets, Sheffield, Wellington ·

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July 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jimi – All Is By My Side: Film

Jimi: All Is By My Side Director: John Ridley Darko Entertainment/Freeman Film/Subotica Entertainment This Jimi Hendrix biopic – that isn’t really a biopic, aiming rather to be a portrait of the year leading up to Hendrix becoming a superstar – isn’t so much “based on a true story” (as it tells us before its opening […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged All Is By My Side, Andre 3000, Andre Benjamin, Biopic, Film, Film Review, Hendrix, Jimi, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi: All Is By My Side, Music, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Outkast ·

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July 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Behind The Candelabra: Film

Behind The Candelabra Director: Steven Soderbergh HBO Films Based on the memoir by Scott Thorson, Liberace’s live-in teen lover, this TV film totally sparkles on the big-screen. Well, it sparkles and then there’s that amber-orange hue that Steven Soderbergh films all have, not so much blunted and dull, more a movie-world setting, an almost hyper-realism. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Behind the Candelabra, Film Review, HBO, Liberace, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, New Zealand International Film Festival, Rob Lowe, Scott Thorson, Steve Soderbergh ·

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July 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Win Tickets to The Crowd: Film with Live Score

A chance for Aucklanders to win a couple of tickets to see The Crowd at the Film Festival this Sunday afternoon, 2pm at SkyCity Theatre. The Crowd, made in 1928, is being screened with a brand new live score. Directed by King Vidor, The Crowd is a silent film set in the machine-age metropolis of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Auckland, Cloudboy, Giveaway, Johannes Contag, Karlo Margetic, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZFF, SkyCity, The Crowd, Win Tickets ·

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