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RNZ News Feeds
about 12 hours ago
New Zealanders bag two Bafta film awards
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New Zealanders bags two Bafta Film Awards
Wētā FX crew won for their work on Avatar: Fire and Ash and Kiwi Kate Hawley won the Bafta for Best Costume Design for Frankenstein.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/movies/new-zealand-bags-a-bafta-film-award
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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
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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
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Seascope pollution
https://pollutionmap.seascope.io
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The Onion
9 days ago
Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth’s Gravitational Field
https://theonion.com/finnish-ski-jumping-team-caught-tampering-with-earths-gravitational-field/
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Eize Basa
10 days ago
The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:
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Seed was a good play, bet it’s a great read too!
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11 days ago
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Cold drink. Windows open. Drowning out the Cicadas with the
#RadioActiveFM
stream - Coda has his groove on.
11 days ago
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I still delight in the 1979 Alien score. So progressive, interesting, avant garde and appropriate - integrating just as below seamlessly into the narrative.
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12 days ago
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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...
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What the historic St James Theatre will look like once rebuilt
As the venue edges towards its 100th birthday - when it will reopen - a team of architects and engineers are peeling back layers to restore it to its original 1920s era.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture/what-the-historic-st-james-theatre-will-look-like-once-rebuilt
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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!
13 days ago
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Whoooooooot ZOI What a legend!
14 days ago
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@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.
19 days ago
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20 days ago
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Loving the time offset to italy for
@thenzteam.bsky.social
in Milano Cortina from New Zealand - can watch us compete over breakfast!
20 days ago
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Dan Sheehan
23 days ago
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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"What's the Score?" January 31st 2026
How to play: Listen to the 5 music clips in the video. Your job is to guess the title of each movie the music is from, and the name of the composer for each one. You…
https://vimeo.com/1160559720?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
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Merriam-Webster
24 days ago
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That last paragraph is pretty sobering…
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24 days ago
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OMFG Fallen Angels playing at Film Society this year ❤️
about 1 month ago
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Technical appreciator
about 1 month ago
Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me
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Susie Dent
3 months ago
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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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!!!
about 1 month ago
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RNZ News Feeds
about 1 month ago
David Byrne has already given us one of the year's best shows
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David Byrne has already given us one of the year's best shows | Review by Nik Dirga in Music
It's only January, but the legendary Talking Heads frontman served Auckland a dazzling display that will go down as one of the year's best.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/david-byrne-has-already-given-us-one-of-the-year-s-best-shows
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Dr Craig R McClain
about 1 month ago
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...
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Chimaera - NOAA Ocean Exploration
This cute chimaera was seen at a depth of 820 meters (2,690 feet) in the Stetson-Miami Terrace Deepwater Coral Habitat of Particular Concern off the coast of Florida during Dive 04 of the 2019 Southea...
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/calendar-wallpaper/
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theimage gigguide
about 1 month ago
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RNZ News Feeds
about 1 month ago
Centuries-old enormous black coral found in Fiordland
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Centuries-old enormous black coral found in Fiordland
A large black coral believed to be centuries old is one of the largest ever found in the waters of New Zealand, researchers say.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/583906/centuries-old-enormous-black-coral-found-in-fiordland
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Scientific American
about 1 month ago
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
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These Bizarre, Centuries-Old Sharks May Have a Hidden Longevity Superpower
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
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-bizarre-centuries-old-greenland-sharks-may-have-a-hidden-longevity/
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Tom Cox
3 months ago
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.
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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!
about 1 month ago
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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...
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Your Top Ten from the 2025 Programme – wellingtonfilms.nz
https://wellingtonfilms.nz/your-top-ten-from-the-2025-programme/
about 1 month ago
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Rolling Stone
about 1 month ago
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.
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David Bowie's Final Live Performances: From the Heart Attack Show to Radio City
Ten years since David Bowie's death, we look back at his final seven live performances.
https://rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/david-bowie-final-concert-performances-1235496066/
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theimage gigguide
about 2 months ago
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When the
@nytimes.com
crossword app has the boxes fecked up, and you just have to make thing fit, it is infuriating!
#firstworldproblems
about 2 months ago
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Admirable Women
about 2 months ago
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...
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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...
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To Build a Home: Joachim Trier on the polyphonic, emotional clarity of Sentimental Value • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Sentimental Value writer-director Joachim Trier opens up to Ella Kemp about the emotional clarity of his family portrait, including invitations extended to Labi Siffre, Chris Ware, Gaspar Noé and more...
https://letterboxd.com/journal/joachim-trier-sentimental-value-interview/
about 2 months ago
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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!
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2 months ago
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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!
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2 months ago
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Now I want a bulldog 2 😎
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2 months ago
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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.
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2 months ago
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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!
2 months ago
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theimage gigguide
2 months ago
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Kristen Lopez
2 months ago
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...
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Rob Reiner Taught a Generation What Movie Magic Was
I shouldn't be writing this post now, under these circumstances, but I am
https://thefilmmaven.com/rob-reiner-tribute/
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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...
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Rob Reiner: 5 essential films
Revisit the astonishing run of films that Rob Reiner made in his early career.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-reiner-five-essential-films
2 months ago
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Richy Craven
2 months ago
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.
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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
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Avatar : Fire and Ash Paris European Premiere - Drone SHOW (Official Video)
YouTube video by Mulderville
https://youtu.be/Nr5jMc8Hk-Q
2 months ago
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Sloppy, and disrespectful of the hard work building this story… and demeaning of their own investment. WTAF. Sigh.
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2 months ago
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The New Yorker
3 months ago
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.
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Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost
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Ian
3 months ago
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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Letterboxd
3 months ago
The nominees for the Golden Globes ✨ Best Motion Picture - Drama
#GoldenGlobes
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This is fabulous! Kate is an extraordinary human and a joy to work with. Couldn’t be happier for her 👻
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3 months ago
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