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#NZFF: Bleakfest 11 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
(‘Bleakfest’ is the name of a real thing that my friends Amy and James did last year — a night of the bleakest films, screened back to back in a dingy Hataitai flat — but I’m nicking it for this secti...
#NZFF: “The coward is here” 5 Aug 2013 | 12:41 pm
In A Field in England, there are four archetypes: the educated coward, the driven leader, the bitter cynic, and the wise, plain-speaking simpleton. Their violent, black-and-white Civil War world — gun...
#nzff: Truth, Ruins, and Autonomy 4 Aug 2013 | 10:47 am
In director Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin, Dwight lives an idyllic-sounding life: his home is in the sand dunes, he bathes in the sea, and he eats fresh fish for dinner. This isn’t how we meet him, thou...
#NZFF: The [x] of [y] 29 Jul 2013 | 03:38 pm
I have never gotten so prepared for a film festival as I have for the 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival in Wellington. Man, I don’t think I was this prepared before moving overseas for four...
Wore a Kanye West t-shirt to the ballet 27 Jul 2013 | 05:18 am
I have no qualifications for writing about Swan Lake performed by The Royal New Zealand Ballet with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, other than that I saw it and was wearing this t-shirt: (File Ph...
Fears of a man who has just started running 11 Jul 2013 | 11:56 am
1. Having barely exercised in the past ten years, and certainly not exercised regularly, am I a phony for starting up again now? 2. How long am I going to keep this up, and how much would I hate myse...
Keep On Driving 23 Jun 2013 | 03:52 pm
We were in the car, golf clubs rattling around in the back, on our way north to the driving range at Silverstream. Bella was behind the wheel. I turned to her with a stupid grin and said, “So, when wa...
hallucinating hundreds of people into my flat 27 May 2013 | 11:14 am
The bitter indulgences of being sick in solitude. Continue reading →
‘A Separation’: Sacred Space 29 Apr 2013 | 04:00 pm
I saw A SEPARATION and thought it was a masterpiece, especially in the way it amplified the spaces between people. Continue reading →
A note on the death of Roger Ebert 6 Apr 2013 | 05:02 am
A few words to mark the passing of my hero. Continue reading →