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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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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- I have to keep this brief as time is short.
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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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- Clive Owen has his second big film of the year in cinemas now, following the romantic-thriller Duplicity in March. The International is a full-time thriller about an international banking conspiracy and it's directed by Run Lola Run's Tom Tykwer. Naomi Watts plays second-fiddle. What happened to her career? Readings, Sky City Queensgate and the Empire, Island Bay. All the other releases this week
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- At last I get some time to preview this week's new releases and, frankly, it hardly seems worth it. I've just got in from two of the most dispiriting experiences I've had in a cinema in some time. Full reviews will come when I've had a chance to find the right kind of language to describe precisely how unambitious Fast & Furious and 17 Again are, a challenge I must rise to before Capital Times
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- Pick of the week at the movies must be The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke's triumphant return to major leagues after years wandering in the wilderness. It's a comeback of sorts for director Darren Aronofsky, too. His last film, The Fountain, was a strange and beautiful fable about trying to escape death but he's probably best-known for Requiem for a Dream, nine years ago. Rourke plays a rung-out and stru
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- It's a busy week at the Paramount: exclusive seasons of Atom (The Sweet Hereafter) Egoyan's new drama Adoration and the documentary The Spirit of the Marathon started today along with a shared season of Al Pacino Shakespearean vehicle The Merchant of Venice. Pacino plays Shylock, and fans of his Richard III doco Looking for Richard will already know Pacino's facility and enthusiasm for Shakespeare
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- I expect there'll be an awful lot of disappointed 15 year olds when they discover that long-awaited graphic novel adaptation Watchmen has been rated R16 despite being trailered in front of every big movie since The Dark Knight. Evidently, it earns the rating being every bit as bloody as the book (not to mention featuring 50 foot high blue penises). Director Zack Snyder looks to have used plenty of
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- Another light-ish week of cinema releases to report: Readings have so much confidence in the new Rob Schneider prison-comedy Big Stan that the only evening sessions are at a deadening 9.20pm at night. According to IMDb this is the first film directed by the Deuce Bigelow star which means we now have the phrase "a film by Rob Schneider" to terrify and depress us. Also Sky City Queensgate.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- With most Wellington screens growning under the weight of Oscar-bait, only Readings (and Sky City Queensgate if you are so inclined) is opening anything new this week. My Bloody Valentine 3D was well attended at sneak previews last week but sadly isn't much of a film. It's a remake of a beloved horror of the same early-80s (same vintage as last week's Friday the 13th). Apart from the title th
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- This has to be the most middle-of-the-road week for new cinema since I started these little updates. Check these out:
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