Alexander Greenhough and Elric Kane on Kissy Kissy
The third feature in a durable filmmaking partnership, Kissy Kissy completes Alexander Greenhough and Elric Kane’s loose trilogy on twenty-something ennui, while giving further legs to the trademarked ‘Aro Film Movement’. BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM interviews the co-directors on the eve of their film’s premiere....[Read More]

Chris Sivertson on The Lost
IAN PRYOR engages visiting American director Chris Sivertson on his breakout feature film, The Lost, a contentious psychological thriller of small town murders....[Read More]

Lessons to Learn: A Civilised Society
HELEN SIMS offers both an appraisal of A Civilised Society and a dialogue with its director, Alister Barry, on the documentary’s chronicle of free market reforms and education upheaval in the eighties....[Read More]

TNZIFF 2007: Opening Thoughts
TIM WONG previews with enthusiasm a winter savior, the Telecom 2007 New Zealand International Film Festivals programme, due out to much anticipation this week....[Read More]





Emily Barclay: Walking amongst the dead, breathing with the living...
IMOGEN NEALE reacquaints with In My Father’s Den ingenue Emily Barcley, returning to the screen We The Living, a new short film travelling the country as part of the Homegrown: Works on Film programme at the Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals....[Read More]

Festival by Day: Week One
On the frontline, SIMON SWEETMAN looks back on week one of his Telecom New Zealand International Film Festival sortie, with His Big White Self, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes and Black Sun amongst the fluctuating highs and lows....[Read More]

Festival by Day: Week Two
Week two of SIMON SWEETMAN's Telecom New Zealand International Film Festival daytrip consisted of mixed pleasures: Thank You For Smoking and You’re Gonna Miss Me considerable highlights; Wah-Wah and loudQUIETloud: A Film About The Pixies less so....[Read More]

Post-Fest Wrap ‘06 #1: Dazed & Confused
His recuperation complete, JACOB POWELL asks himself what made his year, and what threatened to spoil it at the Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals 2006....[Read More]

Post-Fest Wrap ‘06 #2: Fuzzy Reception
TIM WONG’s festival tally yielded a lot of good, and not quite enough great. He reflects on a year of elusive magic numbers at the Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals....[Read More]

Post-Fest Wrap ‘06 #3: Film Will Eat Itself
The balance between art and life is more precarious than ever, writes DAVID LEVINSON at the Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals....[Read More]

Ticket Stub Scrawlings #3: Keane, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, A Bittersweet Life
The third annual installment of TIM GRAY’s Ticket Stub Scrawlings featurette considers three from Ant Timpson’s “That’s Incredible Cinema!” potion: Lodge Kerrigan's volatile Keane, Park Chan-wook's revenge trilogy-capping Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, and Kim Jee-woon's violent spectacle A Bittersweet Life. Let the Scrawlings begin....[Read More]





» The Best of Youth
This year sees the TNZIFF parent a whole family of youth-orientated movies, from the angst-idol of James Dean, to the torment of Mysterious Skin; from the rebellion of Shanghai Dreams, to the modern alienation of The World. TIM WONG raided the programme to see what else he could find.

» David Gordon Green on Undertow
Three months, two cassette-sides, and one out-of-his-depth aspiring journo later, DAVID LEVINSON brings us his one-on-one interview with Undertow director David Gordon Green.

» Memory & Desire
Time, memory and loss converge in 2046: Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited, long-obsessed over "sequel" to In The Mood For Love. SHAHIR DAUD rediscovers his own infatuation with one of modern cinema's great auteurs.

» Nothing Special, really
Helena Brooks – director of New Zealand's latest In Competition-selected short Nothing Special – took time out from strolling down the red carpet to explain to EMMA BLOMKAMP in Cannes how one guy in France can send you into a world where dreams are merely a natural extension of a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck.

» Post-fest Wrap 2005
One month on and a hundred or so movies later, Lumière's editors battled post-festival depression to wrap the 2005 TNZIFF programme: DAVID LEVINSON takes us from the P's of Palindromes, to the Q's of Kings & Queen; TIM WONG tells us what rocked his boat, and what sunk it entirely.

» Ticket Stub Scrawlings #2: Three... Extremes
Round #2 of TIM GRAY's annual Ticket Stub Scrawlings sees the Asian Cinema devotee tackle the short film horror triptych Three... Extremes: a three-point collaboration between marquee directors Takashi Miike, Park Chan-wook and Fruit Chan. It screens, along with thirteen other tyrannical films, as part of Ant Timpson's That's Incredible Cinema.

» The Umbrellas of Taipei
This July we get reacquainted with Tsai Ming-liang, a director long championed and appreciated by this festival and its patrons alike. The Wayward Cloud is the latest from the great Taiwanese filmmaker, and might just be his boldest and most challenging work to date. MUBARAK ALI finds out.





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