The New Zealand International Film Festival is now in full swing. Opening night was Wednesday. Here is The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda with his first dispatch after having viewed three films.
Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat is a dense, complex film that documents a time when the US government used jazz as weapon.
Aussie rockers Midnight Oil get a career-spanning look from director Paul Clarke who has also documented John Farnham and Lillian Roxon.
A Flawed but Epic Old-School Western
Doco-meister Alex Gibney gives the life and music of Paul Simon an exhaustive look in this meticulously-made movie titled In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon.
Famed Japanese composer/pianist/actor Ryuichi Sakamoto performs one last time, just months before his death at age 71.
Twisters: A Heart-Stopping Blockbuster That Will Blow You Away.
The Bikeriders has all the makings of a great film, but it’s a sanitized and generic crime drama that doesn’t say much. But it is sumptuous to look at, with picturesque shots of rumbling motorcycles, hazy dive bars, chiaroscuro lit chatter, and Butler doing his best blue steel.
Doc Edge 2024 opened in Auckland last night. Music fans may want to check out Teaches Of Peaches.
The Watchers: Folk-ish horror from the daughter of M. Night Shyamalan fails to deliver on its unnerving premise.