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June 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Seconds (June 11)

The Wellington Film Society’s program is back after a week off – and we’re still in the sixties, following on from Alphaville we’re in the world of John Frankenheimer. His Seconds (1966) is in fact the third film in his “Paranoia Trilogy” (following 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate and 1963’s Seven Days In May). The film […]
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April 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 106 The Lions

Take me to Venus I’m fed up with Earth There’s a tightrope between us but anything’s worth trying I was living in a flat on Hawker Street in 1980, Louise and I had split Negative Theatre and I was looking at writing new kinds of songs – more based on reality than fantasy dramas. My […]
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