Well, the weather forecast doesn’t look too flash – “Often cloudy, odd shower. Humid with light winds” – but we suspect that won’t stop thousands of people heading down to Courtenay Place tomorrow afternoon (Wed 14 Dec) for the official NZ premiere red carpet screening of King Kong. A few roads in the vicinity are […]
Thanks to David Lindsay, WFS President, for sending these notices throughout the year. Poster Sale How many times, when you have been to the Wellington Film Festival, have you wished you could have one of the posters that were on display in the foyers – even some of those that were mounted on card. Well […]
One for all you film and music enthusiasts out there (and more especially if you’re both): Lachii – the single-shot film by Ed Davis with accompanying live music by HDU’s Tristan Dingemans (aka Kahu) – is having a public screening at the Paramount this Sunday night (November 27) at 9:30pm ($15/$10). From the blurb… Lachii […]
I just wanted to mangle that last title sorry. but if Playstation 3 comes with a free popcorn maker, I’ll wager that it’s all over…. …The cinema industry has been whinging at the downturn in cinema ticket sales for the last few years, and the advent of High Definition TV & DVD isn’t going to […]
While other members of the Wellingtonista debate trivial issues such as roading, the non car-owning amongst us think it’s time to address the more important things in life, such as the Paramount renovations. This isn’t a post to talk about the two new theatres (one with couches), or the glorious big balconey, oh no. It’s […]
Welcome to our final month of the 2005 season. The whole month (if we can include Monday 31 October)features the work of German film producer Artur Brauner. Arguably the most influential film producer of post-war Germany, he was also driven to produce films about victims of the National Socialist regime (when the Nazis invaded Lódz, […]
This lunchtime, I popped downstairs & around the corner from the Wellingtonista Towers, to the NZ Film Archive & spent a fascinating wee while browsing their catalogue of VCRs & DVDs. I tried picking the brain of the technician on duty in the Media Library, but he was just relieving & had sketchy information at […]
September was supposed to be the second and concluding month of the Wellington Film Society season of French films that “got away”. But two of the scheduled films did just that and we have had to find replacements. FORGET ME has been replaced by another French film from the same source, NIGHT SHIFT, but for […]
As if they could even think of holding it elsewhere, it has been confirmed that the NZ premiere of King Kong is going to be held in Wellington, in mid-December. United International Pictures, the film’s New Zealand distributor, has confirmed Wellington will hold the premiere hours before King Kong is released around the world. Spokesman […]
This lunchtime I spent a pleasant 20 minutes or so in a new store called The Guava Tree. Not normally a place frequented by Wellingtonistas, but my interest was piqued by the vast plasma screen observable through the shop window playing what appeared to Bollywood movies. I’ve always wanted to see a Bollywood movie. They […]