Cinema / February 2009
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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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Special Screenings of Kiwi Classic Goodbye Pork Pie on Friday and Saturday
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- Ask people what their favourite New Zealand film is, and quite often, they'll say Goodbye Pork Pie, Geoff Murphy's classic 1981 road film. You could say that the main character of the film is a car - the zippy yellow mini which has since become an instantly recognisable Kiwi icon.And if you haven't seen it (or want to see it again!) the Film Archive will be screening it over two nights this Friday
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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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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- More Oscar contenders hit our screens this weekend. Gus Van Sant's biopic of the first openly gay elected politician in the USA, Milk opens today at Readings, Penthouse and Lighthouse Petone. Sean Penn plays San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk who was assassinated by fellow city official Dan White in 1978. Penn is supported by Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), Emile Hirsch (Int
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Some like it HOT! Some just like free outdoor films…
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- You can’t beat Wellington in summer… free concerts, carnivals, festivals, beautiful weather, wharf-jumping, gelato… and now free outdoor films under the stars. Lush. This year sees four films set to hit the big screen: Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten; Standing in the Shadow of Motown; La Tropical; and Some Like it Hot.The first three films will be hosted in the Wellington Botanical Gar
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Botanical Gardens, Wellington
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