Cinema and Blogs
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Resene Film Fest 2021
- Eye of the Fish
- Seems to me that we need an online Film Festival program, readily available to view. So here one is:There are a few interesting films coming up. Time to buy your tickets now. Here’s how:
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Movie Nights are back in CBD and they are on Tuesdays
- Wellington City Libraries
- Movie Nights are back in the central city! Our newest library Te Awe in Brandon Street offers much-missed movie nights in the CBD every Tuesday night starting at 5:45 pm.
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Deluxe is deluxe
- The Wellingtonista
- One of the most exciting and stimulating things about living in Wellington is the fact the our cinemas are continually reinvesting in their facilities and always trying to top each other in quality of fit out and customer experience.
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Metropolis
- Eye of the Fish
- In place of the usual big bangs and anti-catholic burning of an anti-royalist effigy on Saturday night, some of the Fish crew saw the film Metropolis at the Michael Fowler Centre. It’s not the first time I’ve seen it, but it is the first time I’ve seen it that has really done it justice. The film has been restored, almost, to a state of perfection – the edited version we have all seen for the last 80 years now replete with an extra half hour of footage, sourced from Argentina (16mm, grainy and badly scratched), with 11 snippets from New Zealand (presumably 35mm, and in much better condition). Huge round of applause for Frank Stark and the New Zealand Film Archive, and the frankly wonderful job they are doing, rescuing our filmic memories from the nitro-fuelled dustbin of the past.
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Our movies have gone to the dogs
- The Wellingtonista
- Remember Footrot Flats? Of course you do.
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Preview: 2011 Film Festival
- The Wellingtonista
- Despite the shocking and inexplicable decision to omit Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins from this year’s Film Festival (a disaster applicable only to me I think) the actual line-up is as good as everyone says.
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La Boca Loca
- The Wellingtonista
- With the opening of The Roxy cinema, Miramar has suddenly become a rather popular little neighbourhood.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cinephilia: World Cinema Showcase 2011 Preview
- The Wellingtonista
- For this year’s World Cinema Showcase preview I started with a list of all the films I wanted to see and then realised that I had used up my entire world limit.
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Wellington Film Society starts tonight
- The Wellingtonista
- “Wellington Film Society opens tonight? You don’t say!” All over the world it is volunteer organisations like the Wellington Film Society that keep the flame of film art alive so that cinephiliacs like me can get a decent palate cleanser every Monday night after a weekend of Hollywood tosh.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- In 1969 John Wayne won his only Academy Award for his portrayal of the irascible one-eyed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, hired by young Kim Darby to avenge the murder of her father.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- I understand that New Zealand is proportionally the biggest market in the world for dance movies – the Step Ups, Stomping the Yards, dance battle films are huge here – so I wonder whether that will hold true for a psychological drama set in the world of classical ballet.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s that time of year when the serious Oscar contenders start rolling out.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- This weekend, film fans, you can watch the new animated Yogi Bear movie in two different formats, compare the two and then have an erudite discussion of the related strengths and weaknesses of the new “re-booted franchise” versus the beloved, barely 2D, original.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- A New Year brings with it several resolutions and one of those is that I will return to regular contributions here at The Wellingtonista.
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Film festival frenzy
- The Wellingtonista
- I am not going to see a single film at the Film Festival.
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Wellington Film Festival opens tonight!
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s never been a tougher time to be running a film festival.
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Films by Starlight
- Texture
- This February the Film by Starlight series returns to The Dell in the Wellington Botanic Gardens as part of the Summer City programme and the line-up is particularly impressive.
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Forget Novemberkinder… HELLO Reel Brazil…
- Texture
- Soooooo I was meant to write about Novemberkinder; The German Film Festival this week… except… it finished yesterday. Sigh. Lucky for me however, the Reel Brazil Film Festival was following hot on its heels.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- It's Labour Weekend and, as such, you can pretty much guarantee that the weather will be filthy and the movies will be the place to be.
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Cinephilia: Italian Film Festival
- The Wellingtonista
- The Italian Film Festival once again surveys the best of recent Italian commercial cinema.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- As that old war film quote goes, "it's quiet, too quiet": only three films opening this weekend as the mad rush of the last few weeks works its way through the system.
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The Cream of Italian Cinema
- Texture
- Now that winter’s chill is behind us it’s time to kick-into spring, with Cathay Pacific’s always entertaining, Italian Film Festival 2009.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Freakin' school holidays.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- I think the highlight of the Wellingtonista cinema-going week is likely to be a toss-up between the wonderful Vanguard retrospective at the Film Archive or the restored print of Casablanca.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- I have to keep this brief as time is short.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Righto, back again with a quick run down of what's new in cinemas this weekend.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- The big noise this week is being made by Neill Blomkamp's District 9 which you can see at Readings, Empire, Embassy and Sky City Queensgate.
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Lunch and a Movie for 8 Dollars!
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- Those rather smart cinemaphiles down at New Zealand's Film Archive have come up with a real doozy of an idea. It's called 'Soup & a Seat', where-upon the weary and ravenous film-lover can relax with a movie and a cup of piping-hot homemade soup, for just $8.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- I thought I'd come out of hiding for a moment to trumpet the first Wellington feature film to get a decent release in ages, Separation City.
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Wellington's Forthcoming International Film Festival
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- The Wellington arm of the International Film Festival is just over two weeks away. The event kicks off with Jane Campion’s ‘Bright Star’, and festival goers are to be the first in the world to view the New Zealand born directors new efforts. The many and varied films on offer range from animation, to documentary and the ‘incredibly strange’; and from the up-and-coming, to the directors whom
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