NZIFF Announces 12 Films to Screen at Festival
NZIFF Announces an impressive 12 feature-length New Zealand films have been selected to screen at this year’s Whanau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) so far.
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New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) Delays 2021 Opening To Align With Cannes
Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has confirmed its dates for 2021 and the festival will now take place from late October this year.
Film Review: Heroic Losers (La Odisea De Los Giles) (NZIFF)
Heroic Losers (La Odisea De Los Giles) (2019), an Argentine heist comedy set in the early 2000s, tells the story of an endearing bunch of working-class pals that have their dream to own a cooperative stolen from them, and their tenacity to get it back. The film is based on the novel La Noche De […]
From Arthouse to Your House: NZIFF At Home
The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has announced its plans to present the 2020 programme in an online format. With COVID-19 restrictions in place and likely to continue for some months, cinemas and entertainment venues around the country are closed or will remain under stringent gathering and social distancing limitations. NZIFF, run by the […]
Film Review: La Belle Époque
La Belle Époque delivers a remarkable ensemble cast and razor-sharp comedic writing while discovering that it’s possible to truly love ourselves again.
NZIFF 51 – Film Review: La Flor
At over 800 minutes – not including its five, 15-minute intermissions – La Flor is a cinematic experience unlike any other, one that transcends any rational critique of film or cinema into something entirely of its own. It is a journey of trust, doubt, beauty, and sacrifice – but ultimately, it is a film that […]
NZIFF 51: Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love Director: Nick Broomfield
Get out your hankies! If you’re not wiping away at least a few tears at the end of this meditation on the relationship between Leonard Cohen and his “muse” Marianne Ihlen, then I would serious question your humanity.
NZIFF 51: Under The Silver Lake Director: David Robert Mitchell
David Robert Mitchell’s “comedic neo-noir mystery” is either a completely bonkers mess of a film, or a work of pure genius. Having sat through all 139 minutes of it, I’d say it is a bit of both.
NZIFF 51: Film Review – Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Listen up, do your ears a favour and catch this fascinating and educational look at the underappreciated art of cinematic sound design.
NZIFF 51 – Film Review: The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
For fans of South Korean television, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil will serve nicely as a feature-length spiritual companion to the 2014 and 2017 series Bad Guys and Bad Guys 2 (Nappeun Nyeoseokdeul and Nappeun Nyeoseokdeul: Akui Doshi) which shares a similar premise and features many of the film’s lead actors in similar roles. […]