Tag: New Zealnd
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…
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…
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…
NZIFF Review: Stalker
The New Zealand International Film Festival has a history of providing cinephiles not only with brilliant new films but also bringing classics back to the…
