Tag: Film
Filmmaker Mary Neely Talks Influences, Encouragement, And Her Short Film The Dresser
I saw the short film The Dresser about 2 years ago, and wrote about it as part of the Made by Women series. Having watched…
Watch: Saranne Bensusan’s 12 Minute Short Film Mano a Mono
Roughly twenty years is probably enough time for most audience members, if not this particular critic, to forget one of the most famous twists in…
Lost in Translation: Visual Appreciation
“I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be.” In her sophomore smash hit, Sofia Coppola introduces us to a familiar world within the realms…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Two Program
Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Two Program — Saturday 2nd September 2017 The Femme Filmmakers Festival flies into its second day, and with it the…
Stefanie Davis Talks Comedy, Action, And Her Undying Love For Filmmaking
At just 3 minutes in length, brand new film short I Just Said That from Stefanie Davis shows a familiar side of the fiery temperaments…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day One Program
Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day One Program — Friday 1st September 2017 Like all the fine female filmmakers you are hopefully about to embark on,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017 – Line-Up Announced
Here we are once again. I literally salivate at the mouth at the prospect of spending hours and hours in a darkened room with all…
Directors' Weekend: All 10 David Fincher Films For Streaming
There are, however you look at it, 10 examples of David Fincher‘s cinematic flair in those movies of his – even his underwhelming debut showed…
Masterpiece Memo: The Social Network
To begin with I think The Social Network is a masterpiece. It’s a film that I really love, and ever since I first saw it…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #32
This edition we get the kind folk at Variety to explain MoviePass to us, a bit of motivation from the Head Sprite, a loving piece…
Vote: Ranking The 10 Feature Films Of David Fincher
So with exactly 10 feature film credits to his name (it feels like more, right?), we have our David Fincher top 10. But let’s not…
NZIFF: Christchurch Closes Its Film Festival Curtain
The curtain has fallen on NZIFF’s Christchurch leg for 2017, and it has been a remarkable Festival. Every year, NZIFF goes above and beyond to…
NZIFF Review: The Square
After a satisfyingly diverse NZIFF for 2017, all eyes were on the Closing Night film, Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning satire The Square. Not only…
Masterpiece Memo: Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear)
The Fifties, that squeaky-clean decade of that saw the birth of the suburbs, strict morality and, the McCarthy era, also had the misfortune to precede…
