Tag: Films
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…
Writer-Director Peyv Raz Talks Film Debut With 'Clarity'
From joy to despair in a matter of seconds as a family congratulatory gathering becomes a tense affair in a hospital waiting room. A life…
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…
3 Fantastic Henri-Georges Clouzot Films And Where To Find Them
Several people I spoke to very recently were open about not only their lack of knowledge of French film-maker Henri-Georges Clouzot, but also that they…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #31
The long overdue, and overly neglected, links series on the site returns to pay respect to just some of the fine, informative, intriguing writing on…
NZIFF Review: The Lost City of Z
The Christchurch leg of the New Zealand International Film Festival is creeping ever closer to the final few days; but there are still magnificent films…
NZIFF Review: 6 Days
In April 1980, armed gunmen infiltrate the Iranian Embassy in London. What followed would not only set the template for the British response to terrorist…
NZIFF Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
One of the benefits of film festivals like NZIFF is that cinephiles have the opportunity to sample some very different fare from what is…
Genre Blast: The Play’s the Thing – From Stage to Screen
When a powerful play is adapted to incorporate some of the technical features possible with film, the end result can be transporting. A savvy director and crew will mine the dramatic work for opportunities to maneuver the camera in such a way as to take the audience out of their seats and place them in the middle of the action (just as one would with any other film genre). The playwright’s words should not be treated as a wall that defines the boundaries of the film, but as a door that opens into another medium of expression.
NZIFF Review: Spookers
Confession: I didn’t expect to come out of Florian Habicht’s Spookers feeling as buoyant as I did. While the trailer for the film had utterly…
