NZ Film Festival: Our reviewer's picks
NZ Film Festival: Our reviewer's picks
Film reviewer Christine Powley gives us her picks for the 2012 International Film Festival.
New Zealand International Film Festival
'The little film that could'
'The little film that could'
A Dunedin film-maker is looking forward to the 2012 New Zealand International Film Festival, which starts next week.
Sponsorship helps Regent Theatre make temporary change
Sponsorship helps Regent Theatre make temporary change
A digital revolution will be behind the 2012 New Zealand International Film Festival in Dunedin this month.
It must be love
It must be love
In his latest film Florian Habicht has told a New York love story - his own. Although how much of it is real is up to the audience to decide. Whatever the case, the movie looks set to catapult the eccentric film-maker to new heights, writes Scott Kara.
Talk tonight from acclaimed cinematographer
Talk tonight from acclaimed cinematographer
Acclaimed cinematographer Leo Narbey will speak in Dunedin today as part of the 2011 New Zealand International Film Festival.
Finest film no-one has seen
Finest film no-one has seen
Illustrious Energy might highlight a period in New Zealand history, but the film also has its own interesting back-story, writes Shane Gilchrist.
The medium is still the message
The medium is still the message
Annoyed by the insidious creep of marketing, Morgan Spurlock has made a film about product placement. The twist? It's funded by product placement. Shane Gilchrist reports.
Let the games begin
Let the games begin
The New Zealand International Film Festival starts in Dunedin this week. But Otago Daily Times film critic Mark Orton has been in Auckland where the fun has already started. He passes on some tips to the thrills, laughs and life lessons headed our way.
Man with yearning to learn
Man with yearning to learn
Nganga Maruge, an 84-year-old man from a small village, made international headlines a few years ago when he decided to take the Kenyan Government up on its offer to provide free primary education to everyone.
Economic crisis exposed
Economic crisis exposed
You can tell by their titles - the Oscar-nominated No End in Sight and Inside Job - that the documentaries Charles Ferguson makes are not heartwarming. But that isn't what sets him apart from other...
An infantile approach to the world
An infantile approach to the world
Thomas Balmes is a French documentary film-maker who has made a few little-seen works of cultural anthropology - the conversion of Papua New Guinea natives to Christianity, Finns seeing how their outsourced cellphones are manufactured in China.
International Film Festival: Now for the substance
International Film Festival: Now for the substance
When mainstream cinema seems capable only of giving us frothy fun, either through explosions or wardrobe, the International Film Festival is the time to savour the delights of subtext and ambiguity.
Doco opens doors on Morrison
Doco opens doors on Morrison
Surprisingly, given the wealth of material about the Doors, the new documentary When You're Strange is the first full-length non-fiction look at the rock band.
That sinking feeling
That sinking feeling
Briar March's ambitious new documentary, which will screen in this year's International Film Festival, should launch her as a film-maker to watch.