Two film fans get together almost weekly to discuss what they've seen, what they liked (or not), what else is on that interests them and what is coming up on Auckland's Big Screens. Paying specific attention to Festivals, large - such as the New Zealand International Film Festival, World Cinema Showcase & so on - and small - the French Film Fest, Windows On Europe, Documentary Edge Fest, etc...Being huge fans of Cult Cinema events such as Ant Timpson's 24 Hour Movie Marathon & the 48 Hours Film Competition, anything hosted under the Incredibly Strange banner is likely to be covered. Visiting a plethora of theatres in Auckland; Academy, Rialto, Lido, Capitol, Civic Theatre, Victoria Picture Palace...and they aren't scared of the Event Multiplex, either. The one thing you won't find is the word "Review".
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Two film fans get together almost weekly to discuss what they've seen, what they liked (or not), what else is on that interests them and what is coming up on Auckland's Big Screens. Paying specific attention to Festivals, large - such as the New Zealand International Film Festival, World Cinema Showcase & so on - and small - the French Film Fest, Windows On Europe, Documentary Edge Fest, etc...Being huge fans of Cult Cinema events such as Ant Timpson's 24 Hour Movie Marathon & the 48 Hours Film Competition, anything hosted under the Incredibly Strange banner is likely to be covered. Visiting a plethora of theatres in Auckland; Academy, Rialto, Lido, Capitol, Civic Theatre, Victoria Picture Palace...and they aren't scared of the Event Multiplex, either. The one thing you won't find is the word "Review".
There's no txters & no gangstas this week! Cory & Nige find yet another new favourite in a Quebecian mystery set in the Middle East; Cory sings one of Howard Shore's LOTR scores for us during our musings on the transient (??) Terrence Malick film, The Tree Of Life; and we mention the pleasant Billy T. James doco before Nige tries to fit as much IMDB as he can into our discussion of what's on this coming week…
00:55 - Incendies
06:40 - The Tree Of Life (plus chatter about Cannes and Lord Of The Rings)
21:35 - Billy T: Te Movie
26:05 - What's On (Jane Eyre, The Help, Steam Of Life, Weekend & The Center. Plus talk of Breaking Bad, Iconoclasts and a bunch of upcoming projects from Nige's favourite actors)
37:48 - fin
Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com
With Cory being ill and Editor Nige being slack, we were unable to successfully put together an episode about the films we saw this week; however, we are so very wonderful, that we've pieced together a show from some unaired Film Fest stuff for you. We discuss the Big Screen's latest offerings first, then a lo-fi indie flick before our good pal Jake tries to work out what we thought of a certain Chinese...period...comedy...western...actioner??
00:48 - What's On (Hanna, Final Destination 5, Larry Crowne, Billy T: Te Movie, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale, Senna, Fire In Babylon, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3D)
15:45 - NZFF: Tiny Furniture
20:45 - NZFF: Let The Bullets Fly
35:16 - fin
Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com. Jacob Powell is always available over at twitter.com/jacobunny too, feel free to hit him up about his own show, Best Worst Podcast!
Shit's going down at 240°C as we record by the oven with pork sizzlin' away and Nige talks too damn loud while drinking Cory's Hennessy. Jon Favreau isn't as actiony OR in-your-facey as we'd hoped, but two Russian fellas scrapping in the Arctic did the trick! Then we pluck an unaired Film Fest rant from the archives for y'all! We also talk about what's on at the moment and Cory announces that 3D is coming and is the new thing!
01:30 - Cowboys & Aliens
10:50 - How I Ended This Summer
15:47 - What's On (The Tree Of Life, The Guard, El Violin, Crazy, Stupid, Love., 3D films, TT3D: Closer To The Edge, Priest 3D, McLuhan's Wake & The Bicycle Thieves)
29:20 - NZFF: Martha Marcy Mae Marlene
37:26 - fin
Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com
Cory can't decide whether Dumbledore is the CEO of McDonald's or a maths freak. Nige can't decide whether it was all worth it (but appears to have a crush on Rupert Grint). It's a battle for the ages as we hoot & holler slash piss & moan about JK's world of wizardry.
0:54 - The Harry Potter Confrontation
36:14 - What's On (Mr. Nice, The Double Hour, Billy T: Te Movie, Overheard 2, Cars 2, The Woman With The Five Elephants & Summer Wars)
46:41 - Fin
Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com
Cory & Nige storm through some Top Ten lists and wrap-up the NZ International Film Festival; Nige tries to keep it down in the library while Jake dazzles him with words like evinced & egalitarian; then we sit down by the pool table as Pat reminisces about clowns with SMGs.
4:24 - Cory & Nige's favourite fucked-up moments
11:44 - Cory & Nige's favourite characters
21:51 - Cory & Nige's favourite scenes
33:12 - Cory & Nige's favourite films
51:12 - Jake's best-of lists
64:22 - Pat's best-of lists
77:06 - What's On
86:20
Nige loses his cool trying to fathom Cory's passion for THE TURIN HORSE; famous cat Bill Gosden - the Film Fest director - stops by for a schmooze; and we are completely swept up by super-cool actiony Korean thing THE YELLOW SEA.
1:20 - The Turin Horse
11:16 - A chat with NZFF Director Bill Gosden
28:32 - The Yellow Sea
The ever-brilliant Michael Shannon acts up a storm again in TAKE SHELTER, Michelle Williams is back with Kelly Reichhardt as a lost early settler and the director of Maria, Full Of Grace brings us a fascinating tale of family vs. family in Albania.
1:27 - Take Shelter
6:06 - Meek's Cutoff
12:40 - The Forgiveness Of Blood
As the New Zealand International Film Festival gyrates on, we dip willingly into crazy-Japan via COLD FISH, before Jake from Best Worst podcast stops in to share a chuckle over THE MAN FROM NOWHERE (actually from Korea) and ATTENBERG (a Greek film we were hoping'd be Dogtooth 2)…
01:26 - Cold Fish
10:08 - The Man From Nowhere
19:00 - Attenberg
The New Zealand International Film Festival is upon us, our favourite time of year!! We get to ease in perfectly with the classic Scorsese film TAXI DRIVER, then hit SUBMARINE - featuring odd Welsh schoolkids and their equally odd parents - before Takashi Miike's samurai battle, 13 ASSASSINS. We can die happy now…
01:37 - Taxi Driver
08:33 - Submarine
14:57 - 13 Assassins
Of the five films that we saw, we spend most of that time shredding the one that we DIDN'T enjoy. Because that's more fun to listen to. Or at least record.
00:00 - Intro, spoiler warning & Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
16:15 - My Afternoons With Margueritte (plus chatter about the Lido)
19:48 - Of Gods & Men
24:11 - Sansho The Bailliff
26:38 - V48 Hours National Finals
29:37 - What's On: Wu Xia (plus banter about Three Kings and A Passage To India)
31:46 - What's On: Kung Fu Panda 2
33:45 - What's On: The Company Men (while it storms outside)
34:38 - What's On: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: pt2
We attended the launch of this years Auckland Film Festival where we got to see the wonderful MEDIANERAS... which we loved, and get our hands on the awesome brochure. This episode is devoted to all that has captured our eye. There’s too many to make this nice and tidy - so brace yourselves for a list.
I Saw The Devil
Melancholia
Take Shelter
Taxi Driver
13 Assassins
Sleeping Beauty
Animation Now 2011
Animation For Kids 2011
Supinfocom
Page One: Inside The New York Times
Bobby Fischer Against The World
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travel Of A Tribe Called Quest
Attenberg
The Future
Martha May Marcy Marlene
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3D
Pina 3D
Cold Fish
Norwegian Wood
Fritz Lang's Metropolis / Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horrors
The Kid With A Bike
Arrietty
The Yellow Sea
The Man From Nowhere
Space Battleship Yamato
Meek's Cutoff
Hobo With A Shotgun
Troll Hunter
The Last Circus
Let The Bullets Fly
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi
Mana Waka
Project Nim
Tyrannosaur
Passione
Submarine
SUPER 8 leaves us super impressed... and we tell you all about it. As well as covering the plethora of new films out this week: GREEN LANTERN, BRIDESMAIDS, CEDAR RAPIDS, THE CONSPIRATOR, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE, MAMMUTH, CARS 2, BAD TEACHER, & BEGINNING OF THE GREAT REVIVAL.
It’s high time we outlined how things work around here, so we invite you backstage to our first Annual General Meeting, then it's straight into the origin of Magneto, Professor X... and the whole X-Men team... and I tell you right now, it's all First Class.
A Double Feature at the Capitol Cinema really impresses, which has a lot to do with Duncan Jones (aka. Zowie Bowie) making great films. Nige finally catches up with Temuera Morrison and Ray Winstone climbing all over NZ scenery. Nige also catches ARTHUR (Russell not Dudley), FAST FIVE, A CHINESE GHOST STORY, and has a wonderful story about his re-watch of THE ILLUSIONIST.
Drinks take precedent this week, as we slur our way through the latest Mjölnir welding Superhero, espouse our love for the English drama ANOTHER YEAR, and our streak of bad Chinese films end with the historical epic THE LOST BLADESMAN. Nige needs a few more to handle a certain CGI Easter Bunny (much to Cory's delight). Then we wrap with Kurosawa's classic Samurai piece and Charlie Sheen's old Vietnam movie. Happy Birthday Nige!
Disagreements & disarray this week as Zack Snyder gets all up in our face again and cannibals struggle to make their impression in WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. Frost & Pegg venture out with PAUL, Ray & Tem take a walk in TRACKER & Brando cracks in REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. Plus the World Cinema Showcase finishes up with SAGAN, UNCLE BOONMEE, SMASH HIS CAMERA & the 2007 raids of OPERATION 8
We pretend this is a regular job, job-type job and interview the Don of NZ Film - nice guy Film Fest Director Bill Gosden. Then its 8 films and running with our thoughts on; THE WAY BACK, TUCKER & DALE vs EVIL, RESTREPO, ARMADILLO, COLD WEATHER, OCEANS, SOURCE CODE, and FRANKENSTEIN. Now Frankenstein's really a filmed play... oh - and Armadillo's a Danish film - please disregard when we say it's Dutch (15 times).
We cover off drug fueled mystery thriller's, mystery fueled thrilling doco's, absurd surreal comedy horror's, beautiful British dystopian drama's, annoying Chinese action comedy's, and Duvall & Murray's deep drama. Fantastic films abound as the World Cinema Showcase starts, and we still manage to tell you what's on. Aren't you lucky.
Aliens Invading the Earth... Towns water supply running out... I guess I'd call Aaron Eckhart & Johnny Depp as well. That and we go toe to toe to reveal our favourites of 2010
The eagerly anticpated relationship Drama that made Nige's top ten of the year "Blue Valentine" combined with Matt Damon's Sci-Rom "The Adjustment Bureau" from a Philip K. Dick Short, make this episode a treat. We round off nicely with our picks for this year's World Cinema Showcase... and what's on.
Two film fans get together almost weekly to discuss what they've seen, what they liked (or not), what else is on that interests them and what is coming up on Auckland's Big Screens. Paying specific attention to Festivals, large - such as the New Zealand International Film Festival, World Cinema Showcase & so on - and small - the French Film Fest, Windows On Europe, Documentary Edge Fest, etc...Being huge fans of Cult Cinema events such as Ant Timpson's 24 Hour Movie Marathon & the 48 Hours Film Competition, anything hosted under the Incredibly Strange banner is likely to be covered. Visiting a plethora of theatres in Auckland; Academy, Rialto, Lido, Capitol, Civic Theatre, Victoria Picture Palace...and they aren't scared of the Event Multiplex, either. The one thing you won't find is the word "Review".