Souvenir Programmes

Perfect bound 224 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. Full colour. Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Matt Bluett, Ocean Design. Illustration by Stephen Fuller.

This is a superb edition with many extended pieces;

• The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925). Feature about this kiwi-born director written by Robert Cato.
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Ans Westra: Private Journeys/Public Signposts (Luit Bieringa)
  Departure and Return (Claudia Pond-Eyley)
  Event 16 (Derek Pearson)
  The Last Resort (Erol Wright, Abi King-Jones)
  No More Heroes (Andrew Moore)
  Squeegee Bandit (Sándor Lau)
  Struggle No More (Costa Botes)
  The Waimate Conspiracy (Stefen Lewis)
  Waves (Li Tao)

• Retrospective:  Lust for Life: The Films of Maurice Pialat. Introduction by Andrew Langridge.
  
  
• The New Zealand Feature Restoration Project: Bad Blood, Ngati, Patu (a new note by Russell Campbell) 
  
  
• Peter Calder on 51 Birch Street (Doug Block) 
  
  
• Elizabeth Knox on The King and the Mockingbird (Paul Grimault) 
  
  
• Malcolm Turner on Masters of Abstraction (Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, Walther Ruttmann)

Perfect bound 192 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. Full colour. Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Matt Bluett, Ocean Design.

Highlights include: 

• A staggering Battleship Potemkin in Auckland; and two definitive mid-00s titles: Darwin's Nightmare and Michael Haneke's Hidden.

• Retrospective: Nicholas Ray, Rebel's Rebel Notes by Brian McDonnell
  
  
• Retrospective: Yuri Norstein
  
  
• Elizabeth Knox on Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki Hayao)
  
  
• Sandra Reid on Bill Morrison's Short Films
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Little Bits of Light (Campbell Walker)
  Tyrannical Love (Scott Boswell)
  Banana in a Nutshell (Roseanne Liang)
  Chapter and Verse (Alex Monteith)
  The Kaipara Affair (Barry Barclay) Extensive note by Peter Calder
  Love, Speed and Loss (Justin Pemberton)
  Minginui (Summer Agnew, Adam Luxton)
  The New Oceania (Shirley Horrocks)
  Sedition: The Suppression of Dissent in World War II New Zealand(Russell Campbell)
  The Zoo (Hayden Campbell)
  
  

Perfect bound 192 pages 250mm x 175mm. Full colour. Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Matt Bluett, Ocean Design. Illustration by Rebecca ter Borg. 

• This was the year that launched 1000 documentaries: Fahrenheit 9/11,Super Size Me, Touching the Void, Kaikohe Demolition... Ant Timpson and the Incredibly Strange Film Festival joined the establishment.
  
  
• Retrospective: Into the 36^th Chamber: Five Martial Arts Classics
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  1nite (Amarbir Singh)
  Allie Eagle and Me (Briar March)
  Children of the Migration (Lala Rolls)
  Frodo is Great... Who is That?!! (Stan Allley, Hannah Clarke, Nick Booth)
  In My Father's Den (Brad McGann) Note by Bill Gosden. Brad McGann writes about adapting Maurice Gee's novel.
  Hone Tuwhare - the Return Home (Michelle McGregor)
  Kaikohe Demolition (Florian Habicht)
  Marti: the Passionate Eye (Shirley Horrocks)
  The Making of the Lord of the Rings Part One: the Fellowship of the Ring(Costa Botes)
  Murmurs (Elric Kane, Alexander Greenhough)
  Sheilas: 28 Years On (Dawn Hutcheson, Annie Goldson)
  Tongan Ninja (Jason Stutter)

• Animation retrospective: Malcolm Turner on Priit Pärn and Estonian animation
  
  
• Andrew Langridge writes about music videos by Michel Gondry andSpike Jonze
  
  
• Andrew Langridge on Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)

Perfect bound 192 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. B&W and colour.Edited by Bill Gosden. Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Penny Hall, Ocean Design.

• City of God is a hit. So is the gentle Photos to Send. Two Cars, One Night makes its debut alongside Peter Sollett's Raising Victor Vargas. In Wellington the Festival camps in an abandoned multiplex while the Embassy Theatre is prepared for the Return of the King.

• Re Creation: Films by Robert Breer introduced by Malcolm Turner
  
  
• Retrospective: Tativille, Comedies by Jacques Tati
  
  
• Retrospective: Lon Chaney
  
  
• Brian McDonnelll on In a Lonely Place (Nicolas Ray. 1950)
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Christmas (Gregory King)
  For Good (Stuart McKenzie)
  Haunting Douglas (Leanne Pooley)
  I Think I'm Going (Elric Kane, Alexander Greenhough)
  The Last Post (Dan Cleary, James Hollings)
  Te Whanau o Aotearoa - Caretakers of the Land (Errol Wright, Abi King-Jones)
  Why Can't I Stop This Uncontrollable Dancing? (Campbell Walker)
  Woodenhead (Florian Habicht)
  
  

Perfect bound 192 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. B&W and colour.Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Penny Hall, Ocean Design.

• One national brand to rule them all. It was the perfect year for unprecedented interference from the Society for the Promotion of Ignorance and Fear who attempted and failed to block opening night screenings of Y tu máma también and The Piano Teacher.

• Disney's Unseen Treasures 
  
  
• Centennial Tribute to Oscar Fischinger introduced by Andrew Langridge
  
  
• Bill Gosden remembers Jonathan Dennis. Memorial screenings of The Wind and The Passion of Joan of Arc
  
  
• Scanner plays Alphaville
  
  
• Retrospective: Jean Eustache
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  .OFF. (Colin Hodson)
  Blessed (Rachel Douglas)
  Coffee, Tea or Me? (Brita McVeigh)
  In a Land of Plenty (Alister Barry) Note by Gordon Campbell
  Runaway (John O'Shea, 1964)
  Savage Symbols (Markerita Urale)

• Bill Gosden writes about Chop Suey (Bruce Weber) 
  
  
• Piracy! Celebrated by Michael McDonnell and Sandra Reid

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 250mm x 175mm. Edited by Bill Gosden and Matthew Savage. Front cover art by Paul Hooker. Back Cover art by Angela Lane for 25^th Dunedin International Film Festival. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 30^th Wellington Film Festival.

• Atanarjuat, Yi Yi,  Elvis: That's the Way It Is. A wonderful programme, but numbers are way down. Time to rebrand. Good-bye, elephants and penguins. No more in-jokes on our posters after this one. (Yeah, right.)

• World of Glory: Films by Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson

• Des Rives. Sandra Reid on the experimental films of Yann Beauvais and Thomas Koener
  
  
• Timothy Brock on restoring Shostakovich's score for New Babylon(Grigory Kozinstev, 1929)
  
  
• Rick Schmidlin on resurrecting Greed (Von Stroheim,  1924)
  
  
• Jonathan Dennis interviews veteran western director Budd Boetticher. 
  
  
• Andrew Langridge on Errol Morris
  
  
• Bill Gosden on the censor's excision from Lies (Jan Sun-Woo)
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Blerta Revisited (Geoff Murphy)
  Early Days Yet (Shirley Horrocks)
  Hotere (Merata Mita)
  Rain (Christine Jeffs)
  Snakeskin (Gillian Ashurst)
  Titless Wonders (Gaylene Preston)
  The Waiting Place (Cristobal Araus Lobos)
  
  

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 250mm x 175mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Jackie Hay. Front cover art by Gerad Taylor. Back Cover art by Angela Lane for 24^th Dunedin International Film Festival. Includes poster art by Paul Hooker for 29^th Wellington Film Festival and 32^nd Auckland International Film Festival.

• The Cup. Magnolia. Beau Travail. Lighthouse. An under-the-radar World Premiere of an Australian classic, Andrew Dominick's Chopper.

• Paradise Regained. Colour spread celebrating the Festival's return to the gloriously refurbished Civic.

• Retrospective: the films of Japanese animator Miyazaki Hayao
  
  
• Retrospective: the cinema of Max Ophuls introduced by Jonathan Dennis.
  
  
• Timothy Brock writes about the restoration of Charlie Chaplin's score forModern Times.
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Peter Calder on Barry Barclay's The Feather's of Peace
  Harry Sinclair writes about The Price of Milk
  Bill Gosden and Diane Pivac on Rudall Hayward's The Bush Cinderella(1928)
  David Stratton on Magik and Rose (Vanessa Alexander)
  Numero Bruno (Steve La Hood)
  Shifter (Colin Hodson)
  The Shirt (John Laing)
  Tu tangata : Weaving for the People (note by Lawrence Wharerau)
  A Small Life (Michael Heath) Note by Lawrence McDonald

• Malcolm Turner on Animated Films by William Kentridge

Special discounted price: $10.00

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Jonathan King. Front cover art by Paul Hooker. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 23rd Dunedin International Film and 28^thWellington Film Festival.  

• Run Lola Run, The Celebration, Genghis Blues. Our last year in Auckland's St James Centre is a vintage one. The World Premiere ofScarfies fills Dunedin's Regent. Only 400 of the 1800 present are students.
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Russell Brown on Campaign (Tony Sutorius)
  Getting to Our Place (Gaylene Preston, Anna Cottrell)
  Punitive Damage (Annie Goldson)
  Campbell Walker (Uncomfortable, Comfortable) interviewed by Lawrence McDonald
  Robert and Duncan Sarkies (Scarfies) interviewed by Toby Manhire

• Live Cinema: The Wedding March (Eric Von Stroheim, 1928) introduced by Bill Gosden; Jonathan Dennis interviews Fay Wray.
  
  
• Over The Top: Douglas Sirk melodramas
  
  
• Intimate Light: Films by Nathaniel Dorsky
  
• The South. Classic films of the Antarctic by Frank Hurley and Herbert C Ponting

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Jo Mackay. Front cover art by Jeremy Bennett. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 22nd Dunedin International Film and 30th Auckland International Film Festival.  

• Enter the Dude: The Big Lebowski makes its first appearance. Not everyone at the Fay, Richwhite Gala screening is pleased to make his acquaintance. Mrs Dalloway and Artemesia are also hits.

• Interview with Anthony McCarten (Via Satellite) 
  
  
• Interview with Niki Caro (Memory and Desire) 
  
  
• Interview with Sima Urale (Velvet Dreams)
  
  
• Retrospective: Len Lye: Free Radical. Three programmes curated by Jonathan Dennis
  
  
• Mouth Wide Open (Jonathan Dennis) Diane Pivac on Ted Coubray 
  
  
• Russell Campbell on Cecil Holmes. 
  
  
• The films of avant-garde artist Man Ray, presented by Jean-Michel Bohours, Centre Georges Pompidou
  
  
• Ross Somerville on Richter, the Enigma (Bruno Monsaingeon)

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Mark Amery. Front cover art by Jeremy Bennett. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 21st Dunedin International Film and 29th Auckland International Film Festival; and by John Kelleher for 21^st Christchurch International Film Festival.

• Muhammed Ali (When We Were Kings) and Mrs Brown fill the cinemas. The wonderful King of the Masks premieres, never to be seen here again. The premiere of Harry Sinclair's Topless Women Talk About Their Lives is a riotous success as Opening Night film at the Auckland St James.
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Backroom Troubles (Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader)
  The Climb (Bob Swaim)
  Out of Sight (Gerard Smyth)
  Bruce Morrison (The Road to Jerusalem) interviewed by Mark Amery
  Harry Sinclair (Topless Women Talk About Their Lives) interviewed by Mark Amery

• The Pleasure of Mr Hitchcock. Four great Hitchcock movies introduced by Bill Gosden.
  
  
• Films by E.A. Dupont introduced by Jonathan Dennis
  
  
• Picture Palaces on the splendour of the St James (Auckland), Embassy (Wellington) and Regent (Dunedin) Theatres. 
  
  
• Mark Amery on O Amor Natural (Heddy Honigmann) 
  
  
• Richard Bealing on The Winners (Paul Cohen)
  
  
• Mexican Visions: Films by Chick Strand selected by Jonathan Dennis

Perfect bound 176 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Mark Cubey. Wellington edition has cover illustration by Jeremy Bennett. Auckland gets its first Souvenir Programme. Auckland edition cover by Geoffrey Notman.

• Centennial of Cinema Edition
  
  
• For the first time the Festival lands the three major prize winners direct from Cannes: Fargo, Secrets and Lies and Breaking the Waves.
  
  
• Dancing in the Dark: Highlighting Dance on Film
  
  
• Cinémathèque de la Danse
  
  
• Spotlight on Spain
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand Work
  The Dark Forest (Greg Stitt)
  No Other Lips (Gaylene Preston)
  Someone Else's Country (Alister Barry)

• Under the Macrocarpas: The Alan Roberts Collection from the New Zealand Film Archive
  
  
• Fifty Years of Film Societies. Recollections from Wynne Colgan (Shhh! This is Art) and John O'Shea (Dear Miss Rutter)
  
  

Perfect bound 160 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Gerad Taylor. Production by Wellington Media Collective.  This is an elegant document.

• Chungking Express, Satantango, Petits Arrangements avec la mort. This was a year replete with great movies, but short of popular hits (Clerks,Six Degrees of Separation). The New Zealand Federation of Film Societies, long-time backers of the Festival, set up the New Zealand Film Festival Trust to insulate themselves from such losses in the future.
  
  
• The Young Ones of their Day: seven French directors make a film set the year they turned eighteen. This wonderful series contains classic, now hard-to-see films by Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Chantal Akerman. Unfortunately the announcement of resumed nuclear testing at Muroroa impacted unfavourably on festival-goers' appetites for brilliant French filmmaking.
  
  
• Scary Women: lining up the femme fatales of classic Hollywood
  
  
• The films of Gustav Machaty
  
• Classic British documentaries by Humphrey Jennings 
  
• Maya Deren

Perfect bound 160 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Debe Mansfield. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

• World Premiere of Heavenly Creatures

• Baraka, Naked, The Blue Kite, Hoop Dreams, Muriel's Wedding, Chantal Akerman's From the East. You saw them first at the Film Festival. What a year! 
  
  
• Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy. The Festival scores the first screening ex-Cannes of the final installment.
  
  
• Czech animator Jan Svankmajer
  
• Documentarian Ross McElwee
  
  
• New prints of John Ford westerns
  
  
• Australian pioneers Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell

Perfect bound 148 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Debe Mansfield. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

• A violent year: The Bad Lieutenant, Reservoir Dogs and Sonatine. But there's also Orlando and Desperate Remedies to counteract the macho fatalism.

• Gaylene Preston's Bread and Roses
  
  
• 5 x Buster Keaton. What happiness.
  
  
• Orson Welles does Shakespeare and Kafka
  
  
• Pioneer animator Ladislaw Starewicz 
  
  
• Tribes of Southern California: documentaries by Jean-Pierre Gorin 
  
• Our first ever Minnie Cooper ad

Perfect bound 120 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover design by Catherine Callaghan. Illustration by Geofrrey Notman. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

• Altman's The Player opens the Festival. Censorship is news. First appearances by Wong Kar-wai (Days of Being Wild) and Lars Von Trier(Zentropa); an indelibly creepy Nosferatu score performed by Joachim Barenz and Suzanne Warner
  
  
• F. W. Murnau retrospective curated by Jonathan Dennis
  
  
• International Rocketship Retrospective 
  
  
• Bill Gosden on the banning of Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer 
  

Staple bound 102 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Paul Densem. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

• Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou opens the Festival. Takeshi Kitano's The Violent Cop and Boiling Point venture out of Japan. Pump Up the Volume andAkira. Truth or Dare: in Bed with Madonna is a hit and there are those today who say the decline started there.
  
  
• Barry Barclay's Te Rua
  
  
• Three films by Kira Muratova
  
• Tribute to Asta Nielsen. Jonathan Dennis-curated tribute to the great Danish star of early cinema. 
  
  
• Films by Su Friedrich introduced by Bill Gosden
  
  

Staple bound 102 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Paul Densem. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

• Before they were famous: Kieślowski's Decalogue,  Michael Moore's Roger and Me, John Woo's The Killer, David Lynch's Twin Peaks pilot
  
  
• Kitsch supreme: Cinema Paradiso and Kurosawa's Dreams; and Asian masterpieces: Imamura's Black Rain and Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness.

• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion) - also Sweetie
  User Friendly: A Little Dog Goes a Long Way (Gregor Nicholas)
  Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (Martyn Sanderson)
  Ruby and Rata (Gaylene Preston)
  Mana Waka (Merata Mita)

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Mark Amery. Front cover art by Jeremy Bennett. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 21st Dunedin International Film and 29th Auckland International Film Festival; and by John Kelleher for 21^st Christchurch International Film Festival.

• Muhammed Ali (When We Were Kings) and Mrs Brown fill the cinemas. The wonderful King of the Masks premieres, never to be seen here again. The premiere of Harry Sinclair's Topless Women Talk About Their Lives is a riotous success as Opening Night film at the Auckland St James.
  
  
• Premiere screenings of New Zealand work:
  Backroom Troubles (Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader)
  The Climb (Bob Swaim)
  Out of Sight (Gerard Smyth)
  Bruce Morrison (The Road to Jerusalem) interviewed by Mark Amery
  Harry Sinclair (Topless Women Talk About Their Lives) interviewed by Mark Amery

• The Pleasure of Mr Hitchcock. Four great Hitchcock movies introduced by Bill Gosden.
  
  
• Films by E.A. Dupont introduced by Jonathan Dennis
  
  
• Picture Palaces on the splendour of the St James (Auckland), Embassy (Wellington) and Regent (Dunedin) Theatres. 
  
  
• Mark Amery on O Amor Natural (Heddy Honigmann) 
  
  
• Richard Bealing on The Winners (Paul Cohen)
  
  
• Mexican Visions: Films by Chick Strand selected by Jonathan Dennis