https://wellington.gen.nz/the-wellingtonista+cinema Items tagged with The Wellingtonista and Cinema. http://wellingtonista.com/2011/12/09/deluxe-is-deluxe/ 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. cinema blogs featured Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/12/09/deluxe-is-deluxe/ The Wellingtonista 2011-12-09T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/08/16/our-movies-have-gone-to-the-dogs/ Remember Footrot Flats? Of course you do. appeals animals cinema communitygroups blogs featured Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/08/16/our-movies-have-gone-to-the-dogs/ The Wellingtonista 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/07/27/preview-2011-film-festival/ 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. cinema blogs featured Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/07/27/preview-2011-film-festival/ The Wellingtonista 2011-07-26T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/04/27/la-boca-loca/ With the opening of The Roxy cinema, Miramar has suddenly become a rather popular little neighbourhood. miramar cinema places blogs featured Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/04/27/la-boca-loca/ The Wellingtonista 2011-04-26T00:00:00Z -41.3133541 174.8196538 Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2011/04/12/cinephilia-world-cinema-showcase-2011-preview/ 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. cinema blogs featured Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/04/12/cinephilia-world-cinema-showcase-2011-preview/ The Wellingtonista 2011-04-12T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/03/07/wellington-film-society-starts-tonight/ “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. cinema blogs featured Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/03/07/wellington-film-society-starts-tonight/ The Wellingtonista 2011-03-07T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/02/03/cinephilia-opening-this-week-70/ 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. cinema blogs featured Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/02/03/cinephilia-opening-this-week-70/ The Wellingtonista 2011-02-02T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/27/cinephilia-opening-this-week-69/ 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. cinema blogs featured Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/27/cinephilia-opening-this-week-69/ The Wellingtonista 2011-01-27T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/20/cinephilia-opening-this-week-68/ It’s that time of year when the serious Oscar contenders start rolling out. cinema blogs featured Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/20/cinephilia-opening-this-week-68/ The Wellingtonista 2011-01-20T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/14/cinephilia-opening-this-week-67/ 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. cinema blogs featured Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/14/cinephilia-opening-this-week-67/ The Wellingtonista 2011-01-14T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/06/cinephilia-opening-this-week-66/ A New Year brings with it several resolutions and one of those is that I will return to regular contributions here at The Wellingtonista. cinema blogs featured Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/01/06/cinephilia-opening-this-week-66/ The Wellingtonista 2011-01-06T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/film-festival-frenzy  I am not going to see a single film at the Film Festival. cinema blogs featured Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/film-festival-frenzy The Wellingtonista 2010-07-18T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/wellington-film-festival-opens-tonight It’s never been a tougher time to be running a film festival. events cinema blogs featured Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/wellington-film-festival-opens-tonight The Wellingtonista 2010-07-15T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-63 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. cinema blogs featured Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-63 The Wellingtonista 2009-10-22T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-italian-film-festival The Italian Film Festival once again surveys the best of recent Italian commercial cinema. cinema blogs featured Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-italian-film-festival The Wellingtonista 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-62 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. cinema blogs featured Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-62 The Wellingtonista 2009-10-08T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-61 Freakin' school holidays. cinema blogs featured Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-61 The Wellingtonista 2009-09-24T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-59 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. cinema blogs featured Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-59 The Wellingtonista 2009-09-03T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-58 I have to keep this brief as time is short. cinema blogs featured Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-58 The Wellingtonista 2009-08-27T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-57 Righto, back again with a quick run down of what's new in cinemas this weekend. cinema blogs featured Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-57 The Wellingtonista 2009-08-20T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-56 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. cinema blogs featured Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-56 The Wellingtonista 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-54 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 cinema islandbay places blogs featured Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-54 The Wellingtonista 2009-04-23T00:00:00Z -41.3322495 174.7716525 Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-53 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 cinema blogs featured Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-53 The Wellingtonista 2009-04-16T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-52 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 cinema blogs featured Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-52 The Wellingtonista 2009-03-26T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-51 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 cinema blogs featured Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-51 The Wellingtonista 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-50 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 cinema blogs featured Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-50 The Wellingtonista 2009-03-05T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-49 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. cinema blogs featured Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-49 The Wellingtonista 2009-02-26T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-48 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 cinema blogs featured Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-48 The Wellingtonista 2009-02-19T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-47 This has to be the most middle-of-the-road week for new cinema since I started these little updates. Check these out: cinema blogs featured Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-47 The Wellingtonista 2009-02-12T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-46 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 cinema blogs featured Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/cinephilia-opening-this-week-46 The Wellingtonista 2009-02-04T00:00:00Z