New Zealanders bag two Bafta film awards

Tonight’s #WgtnFilmSoc screening was the extraordinary Peter Weirs gothic masterpiece #PicnicAtHangingRock - a good 4K 50th anniversary restoration. It’s such a thought provoking approach to reliability in narrative to this day. Great start to the Film Soc’s 80th Year! #2wr unstable ground

The Wellington poo plume seems to especially dislike surfers, dogs, and nudists! At least very few of them will be braving the outside today… pollutionmap.seascope.io

Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth’s Gravitational Field https://theonion.com/finnish-ski-jumping-team-caught-tampering-with-earths-gravitational-field/

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

Seed was a good play, bet it’s a great read too!

Cold drink. Windows open. Drowning out the Cicadas with the #RadioActiveFM stream - Coda has his groove on.

I still delight in the 1979 Alien score. So progressive, interesting, avant garde and appropriate - integrating just as below seamlessly into the narrative.

I can’t wait to get back into this glorious venue for a gig again. It’s been so long! www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...

Why oh why is the Vetruvian Man emasculated in the Olympic graphics??? It’s so bizarre. Is it really prudery? I’m utterly baffled, after all it’s one if the most famous objects in the world! And I say that coming from a country where the European settlers knocked off the knobs from our tekoteko!

Whoooooooot ZOI What a legend!

@letterboxd.social screening of the wonderful Park Chan-Wook’s No Other Choice this evening at the equally wonderful #RoxyCinema Miramar tonight. How many suburban cinemas have this quality of projection, sound, and damn good people… we’re so lucky! And a bloody good beer to boot.

Loving the time offset to italy for @thenzteam.bsky.social in Milano Cortina from New Zealand - can watch us compete over breakfast!

Let's play "What's the Score?" Listen to the 5 music clips here. Figure out the movie each one is from (but NOT using an audio search!), and POST your answers IN THE REPLIES! 1 point per movie, 2 points for composers. Guess the connecting theme for 5 bonus points! Good luck! #filmsky #moviesky

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That last paragraph is pretty sobering…

OMFG Fallen Angels playing at Film Society this year ❤️

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Thanks Sunaina for all the great Breakfast Shows on #RadioActiveFM. It was cool to listen to the last show and your strong farewell. Go oh so well!!!

David Byrne has already given us one of the year's best shows

Just a reminder that NOAA releases monthly desktop screens with calendars featuring deep-sea animals and its reminder right now that at least some in government are still wholesome oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/c...

Centuries-old enormous black coral found in Fiordland

The very, very long-lived Greenland sharks were long thought to be practically blind. But a new study finds that they not only can see but also maintain their vision into old age

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

Swimsuit coffee Miramar just absolutely humming this morning with really great caffeine, cheese scones, dope tunes, lots of folks and happy doggos. Happy new working year peninsular pals!

Great top 10 from last years Wellington Film Society screenings and, for me, the number one was a masterwork of restoration… not to mention a case study in use of frame. Can’t wait for this years season to kick off! wellingtonfilms.nz/your-top-ten...

Ten years ago this month, David Bowie died just three days after releasing 'Blackstar.' Here’s a fantastic voyage back to Bowie’s seven last live appearances.

When the @nytimes.com crossword app has the boxes fecked up, and you just have to make thing fit, it is infuriating! #firstworldproblems

Dorothy Arzner was the only female film director in Hollywood from 1927 until her retirement in 1943. She launched the careers of Katharine Hepburn & Lucille Ball (among others). First woman to direct a sound #film. She was born #OTD in 1897. lwlies.com/articles/dor...#film#OTD#cinema

Currently Screening in NZ too. It’s a fun season for a cinematic rainy day... Thoughtful intimacies from our Northern Friends, Spectacular 3D blasts of fun, and BBQs when it’s as glorious as today 😎 letterboxd.com/journal/joac...

The film is of course a masterpiece, but if you’ve not seen the play (oh boy you should - NT’s restage is good) and you can access this steamer (I can’t) this looks well worth a squizz!

Cool PRPP tree at Wellington Airport with their film restorations playing in the baubles — including Costa Botes’ remarkable collab with PJ on Forgotten Silver. Very fun!

Now I want a bulldog 2 😎

Nice! I still need to see #IfIhadLegs… and am stoked to see the wonderful #Misericordia in this list. I think my film of the year remains Jafar Panahi’s amazing furious hilarious unsettling and righteous #ItWasJustAnAccident. It’s just SO good.

Not playing this year for justifiable fear I’d run out of time and brain, not make that just so for my giftee… but oh boy it’s still very heartwarming following #SecretSantaAoNZ shenanigans!

Wrote a celebration of Rob Reiner's features through tears this morning. I talked about how his movies taught a generation of film lovers how to feel while reminding us why life is worth living. It's free over at The Film Maven. thefilmmaven.com/rob-reiner-t...

Heading back to NZ from the awful pain of our cuzzies across the ditch, a horrific day here in Sydney. Tonight it’s either Princess Bride or Stand by Me. Probably SBM. What a gifted filmmaker, and what joy for us his legacy still offers. It may offer some solace. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

It’s premiere day for Avatar Fire and Ash here in Wellington - the huge red carpet is out on Courtenay Place to celebrate all the folks from this city who worked so hard on making the film. Fair enough too!!! It’s a stunning blue sky day… Too bright for a drones like Paris! youtu.be/Nr5jMc8Hk-Q

Sloppy, and disrespectful of the hard work building this story… and demeaning of their own investment. WTAF. Sigh.

Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

The nominees for the Golden Globes ✨ Best Motion Picture - Drama #GoldenGlobes

This is fabulous! Kate is an extraordinary human and a joy to work with. Couldn’t be happier for her 👻