Cinema and Featured
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Deluxe is deluxe
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- 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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Our movies have gone to the dogs
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- Remember Footrot Flats? Of course you do.
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Preview: 2011 Film Festival
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- “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
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- 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
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- 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
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- It’s that time of year when the serious Oscar contenders start rolling out.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- 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
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- 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
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- I am not going to see a single film at the Film Festival.
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Wellington Film Festival opens tonight!
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- It’s never been a tougher time to be running a film festival.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- 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
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- The Italian Film Festival once again surveys the best of recent Italian commercial cinema.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- 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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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- Freakin' school holidays.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- 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
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- Righto, back again with a quick run down of what's new in cinemas this weekend.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- 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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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- 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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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- After a few weeks off listing new releases I’m returning to record a typically eccentric mix of blockbuster and art-house for you to while away those long, balmy summer evenings.
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Embracing your inner show-mom
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- Late notice but tonight at the Film Archive, cnr of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets, at 6:30pm the Friends of the Film Archive present a special insight into baby contests, beauty competitions and screen tests from yesteryear. It’s free. It’s hilarious.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- Just the one new film opening this week:
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See The Darjeeling Limited for FREE
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- MySpace Black Curtain is holding a special screening of The Darjeeling Limited in Wellington at the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday 18th December at 8pm.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- If you are at all interested in the future of cinema technology, the energetic retelling of dark age Norse legends or theme park rides then Beowulf 3D is the thing for you this weekend. The 3D version only screens at Readings and I understand from Roadshow, the distributor, that only two cinemas in New Zealand are equipped to screen it: Readings at Courtenay Central and Hoyts Sylvia Park in Auckland.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- A whole day late, sorry. Curse this day job.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- While the Film Festival dominates the screens at the Embassy, Paramount, Te Papa, the Film Archive (and partially takes over the Penthouse) there are still mainstream releases being flung to the four winds.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cinephilia: 36th Wellington Film Festival Preview
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- It’s Film Festival time of year, that two and a half week period when watching three films a day becomes more than shameful self-indulgence, its almost obligatory. Like life itself, preparing for the Film Festival is all about choices.
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Kids' Film Festival
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- One of the more excellent things we've seen land in the Wellingtonista's intray that allows harried parents to entertain their kids for FREE these holidays, is the Film Festival taking place down at the Film Archive. So if you've got a loved one at home looking after some housebound kiddy-winkles, give 'em a call and tell them to head along...
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