Cinema / July 2008
August 2008 | June 2008-
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Cinephilia: Film Festival preview
- The Wellingtonista
- The Film Festival has been a fixture of Wellington's winter calendar for nearly 40 years and for those of us who organise our lives around glowing rectangles of one kind or another there is no better way to spend a cold and wet afternoon than in the comfy leather chairs at the Embassy, engrossed in a work of art. Programming a Festival like Wellington may seem easy but I can assure you it's getting tougher every year.
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Something smells like fish
- The Wellingtonista
- For those of you who've never heard of Nanook, Thursday night's screening at the Film Archive is unmissable. Widely considered the first feature length documentary ever made (shot in 1922) it's an exceptional account of Inuit life on the ice.
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Lovely Rita a Massive Success!
- Keep Crossways Community House
- Residents from around Wellington made a big event of the special Crossways screening of “The Lovely Rita” at the Paramount Cinema on Sunday. The theatre was packed - more than 400 people attended - and the documentary was very warmly received. Gaylene Preston spoke before and after the movie, and said that the film had been more than 30 years in the making.The attendance of so many people was
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