I had a week off blogging last week - it wasnt intentional, just usual laziness but anyway, The film festival is of course on at the moment, and Ive seen three films (plus another non-festival film - unacceptable infidelity I know).
Last week I went and saw Wellington (represent yo) director, Taika Waititi's (of Two Cars/One Night fame) new film - Eagle vs Shark and god it was good. Granted, it is basically a NZ Napolean Dynamite - but fantastic all the same. Some of the Velvet paintings of Tigers, Sharks and Unicorns are definitely from the Rhodes school of design.... (i know the whole minimalism is really a cover for the velvet wall hangings). One of the best bits has to be the video game where there is a Maori warrior firing lasers from a Taiaha, or the "best computer hacker in town" who uses Windows 95 (with full YNANG YNANG warming up grinding and porn site pop ups) -"Theres porn on your computer bro".
Yesterday I did a back-to-back double feature - starting off with the disturbing Jesus Camp which was all about kids going off to be indoctrinated into fundamentalist christianity. Pretty scary stuff (Harry Potter = evil, Abortion = evil, Gays = evil and so on - you get the idea). On the whole it was pretty good, but at times the movie also tells you what to think - there is a radio interviewer rambling in parts providing bridging clips, telling us how fundys and bad, and George Bush is bad (they pray over a life size carboard cut out of him btw) etc etc. This was unecessary though - you couldnt help but arrive at those conclusions anyway - so why force it down peoples throats?
Watch the trailer
And lastly the second part of the double feature was Severance which has been billed as The Office meets Deliverance. Its about a group of seven or so office workers who go on a team-building exercise in the Hungarian wilderness. Obviously things go awry with people getting killed etc but its also pretty damn funny too. The best bit has to be when one of them gets caught in a gin trap - and they try unsuccessfully to free him by pulling it open, only for it to slam shut again..... five times.
Trailer here
On the whole three pretty good films out of three. Next up is Manufacturing Dissent on Wednesday which started off as a positive piece about Michael Moore - only to turn into quite a negative piece about him, the holes in his films etc etc. Im sure its as biased as well.... a Moore film but should be a good watch all the same!
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