The NZ Flim Festaliv begins in Wellington tomorrow, and Cal has been sorted enough to get us booked into some flims. Here’s what we’re up for:
Welcome to the Sticks – the most successful French film of all time, apparently. An odd chain of events leads a rural French community to feign being backward and provincial. I was ambivalent about this one when Cal ticked it, but I’ve been warming to the idea, and I haven’t seen anything from France in years.
The Hollow Men – Alister Barry’s film of Nicky Hager’s look inside the National Party election campaign in 2004. Sure to be fascinating.
My Winnipeg – Guy Maddin’s weird doco about his hometown. I’ve actually been to Winnipeg, so I’m looking forward to this one to give me a new perspective on the place.
Ben X – from Belgium, An autistic young man negotiates the online and real worlds with varying success, or something. Sounded intriguing, Oddly the fest has a fair few autism-related films this year.
Trouble Is My Business, a doco about a school in Auckland getting turned around by a new approach to education and discipline. I dig on education-themed stuff, always have. Should be neat.
So that’s the bookings. I might pick up another one or two on walk-ins, there are certainly others I’m interested in.
Yay for the Flim Festaliv!
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It will be interesting to see what you think of “Welcome to the Sticks”, considering it is all based on Northerner slang that will have to be translated very loosely to have any meaning in English (I imagine).
After seeing about 15 movies last year, I’ve only booked 2 this time around: Diary of the Dead (George Romero’s latest ‘the US socio-political landscape through the zombie mirror’ movie) and The Orphanage (touted by people I trust as the best horror movie in years, so naturally soon to be remade by Hollywood).
Screw documentaries and French films and movies about ‘tards, those are for girls. 😛
R: yeah, not sure how they’ll run that. The whole film seems so dependent on local knowledge by its very concept… still, translators have been pretty good on French stuff for years now, though, so I figure they’ll solve the puzzle in some effective way…
Joey: charming as ever! 😛
i wonder if guy uses the Weakerthans track ‘i hate winnipeg’. another fine winnipegian export 🙂 thats the one movie i’m quite grumpy about missing, his stuff is great.