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...took out Best Actress at the New Zealand Screen Awards in August, carries some of the pathos and weight of The Leopard's ageing autocrat. Otherwise No. 2-which was released in Australia last week-is a crowd pleaser every bit as tangy as the fruit salad Nanna Maria's extended family is likened to. Writes Fraser in the film's notes, "Does it show that I was born in England and grew up there and loved the idea of my big family in the South Pacific...
...ageing Fijian matriarch's gathering of the clan to name her successor-is filled with her kava-swigging, tree-chainsawing, pig-slaughtering grandchildren, who surf a volcano of emotions over one night and a day. It's all part of the shifting nature of New Zealand film. As Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee) says of the Fijian feast taking shape outside her suburban window, "Look at all that life...
...Nanna Maria isn't the only one taking notice. A hemisphere away in London, Ian Conrich, director of the newly established Centre for New Zealand Studies at the University of London, has been watching the new tide of Kiwi filmmakers with interest. In the wake of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the New Zealand industry has been experiencing something of a second coming: from the just-released true-crime flick Out of the Blue, based on the 1990 Aramoana massacre, to Jonathan King's eagerly awaited genetic-engineering fantasy horror, Black Sheep, which carries the tagline, there...
...hope,” said my tracksuit friend, who happened to be disgusting. As the room filled up, I played a game with myself where I tried to guess who was addicted to what. In the meantime, the phone kept ringing and Rita kept shouting. “Yes, Maria, what is your problem! Weight control? Okay—I will give him the receiver and you think ‘I am eating sweets, I am eating between meals.’” A second later, into the other room: “YEFIM! Weight control, line...
...Soviet dissidents, once hunted by the general, came because they believe that Politkovskaya was one of the remaining few who stood by values and principles for which they had fought. "That is the problem that so many dissidents have become bosses now," said Maria Rosanova, a living legend of the erstwhile Soviet dissident movement, colleague and widow of late writer and thinker Andrei Sinyavsky. Sinyavsky's trial, along with Yuri Daniel back in 1966, had marked the beginning of the dissident era of the Soviet history...