The Lumière Reader publishes a selection of informal, ongoing Film Columns to complement its Film and DVD Reviews, broadly encompassing cinema primarily outside of the ‘current release’ sphere. Supplementing these is a year-round Festival Column surverying the local film festival scene, published separately under The Festival Reader.

Imprints

New observations and impressions on films, past and present; film events, inititives and projects; + primetime television.

    Film
    » Adrift: Open Water 2
    » As Tears Go By
    » The Band Wagon
    » Battle Royale II
    » Black Narcissus
    » Body Snatchers
    » The Company
    » The Children's Hour
    » Children of Men
    » City of Lost Souls
    » Coffee and Cigarettes
    » Days of Being Wild
    » Les Diaboliques
    » Distance
    » Dolls
    » Door in the Floor
    » Down By Law
    » The Dreamers
    » Evil
    » Finally Sunday!
    » The Football Factory
    » House of Flying Daggers
    » How to Deal
    » L’Esquive
    » Last Days
    » Lover Other: The Story Of Claude Cahun And Marcel Moore
    » Ma mère
    » The Machinist
    » Million Dollar Baby
    » My Neighbor Totoro
    » The Naked Kiss
    » Night Moves
    » Nobody Knows
    » Paris When it Sizzles
    » The Perfect Catch (aka Fever Pitch)
    » School For Seduction
    » Sin City
    » Straw Dogs [a] [b]
    » A Tale of Two Sisters
    » They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    » The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
    » Trainspotting
    » Two for the Road
    » Uzumaki
    » V for Vendetta
    » Vengeance is Mine

    Unknown Pleasures
    Films that have fallen off the radar, or are yet to see the light of day in New Zealand.
    » Aidiko Insane
    » Bubble

    Bollywood Dispatch
    Out of India, Gautaman Bhaskaran considers the current Indian and Bollywood Cinema.
    » #1: Krrish in Deauville, Irfan Khan, Rahul Bose, Kareena, Kajol
    » #2: Provoked, Shekhar Kapur, The Namesake, Veyil
    » #3: Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Katrina Kaif, Jaya Bachchan, Nicolas Cage
    » #4: Shetty-Gere smooch

    Television
    » Boxed Projections: 24, Carnivale
    » Gilmore Girls (S5/Ep6)
    » The O.C. (S2/Ep10)
    » Oprah, Dave, Oprah, Dave: The Late Show with David Letterman
    » Role Playin': The Simple Life, Gilmore Girls
    » They See Dead People: Six Feet Under, CSI
    » Veronica Mars (S1/Ep21)

    Events
    » Elam Past and Present: Film Exhibition
    » Linda Aronson: Screenwriting Lecture


Appreciations

Odes to classic and neglected films; actors and filmmakers we love; sympathy for the critically maligned; + guest column: The Movie That Got Me Into Movies.

    In Appreciation
    » 25th Hour
    » After Hours
    » I Vitelloni
    » The Loved One
    » The Naked Kiss
    » Samuel Fuller and François Truffaut
    » Sweet Smell of Success
    » What Time is it There?

    The Movie That Got Me Into Movies
    In an ongoing series, film critics and filmmakers tell us of their cinematic first loves...
    » Alexander Bisley on Hana-bi (1997)
    » Andrew Langridge on Scream and Scream Again (1970), and others
    » Brannavan Gnanalingam on The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    » Caleb Starrenburg on Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
    » Costa Botes on Fantastic Voyage (1966)
    » Philip Matthews on Planet of the Apes (1968)
    » Robert Smith on O Lucky Man! (1975)


Dailies + Editorials

Monthly recaps of existing film and DVD reviews due for re-release; new film and DVD capsules; comment and opinion on current film rumours, murmurings and events.

    Dailies
    » Dailies (DVD)—April 2007
    » Dailies (Film/DVD)—March 2007
    » Dailies (Film)—February 2007
    » Dailies (Film/DVD)—January 2007
    » Dailies (DVD)—December 2006 #1
    » Dailies (DVD)—December 2006 #2
    » Dailies (Film/DVD)—October/November 2006
    » Dailies (Film/DVD)—September 2006
    » Dailies (DVD)—August 2006
    » Dailies (DVD)—April 2006
    » Dailies (Film)—April 2006
    » Dailies (Film/DVD)—February/March 2006

    Editorials
    » Let Them Eat Movies (22.04.07)
    » Cultural faux pas + Oscar absurdities (28.02.07)
    » New Year + Holiday Viewing (04.01.07)
    » Air NZ Screen Awards announced; Best Picture winner the conservative choice (28.08.06)
    » A Mighty Totara Has Fallen; River Queen a fine tribute (01.03.06)