Big Screen Auckland

There's no txters & no gangstas this week! Cory & Nige find yet another new favourite in a Quebecian mystery set in the Middle East; Cory sings one of Howard Shore's LOTR scores for us during our musings on the transient (??) Terrence Malick film, The Tree Of Life; and we mention the pleasant Billy T. James doco before Nige tries to fit as much IMDB as he can into our discussion of what's on this coming week… 00:55 - Incendies 06:40 - The Tree Of Life (plus chatter about Cannes and Lord Of The Rings) 21:35 - Billy T: Te Movie 26:05 - What's On (Jane Eyre, The Help, Steam Of Life, Weekend & The Center. Plus talk of Breaking Bad, Iconoclasts and a bunch of upcoming projects from Nige's favourite actors) 37:48 - fin Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com

With Cory being ill and Editor Nige being slack, we were unable to successfully put together an episode about the films we saw this week; however, we are so very wonderful, that we've pieced together a show from some unaired Film Fest stuff for you. We discuss the Big Screen's latest offerings first, then a lo-fi indie flick before our good pal Jake tries to work out what we thought of a certain Chinese...period...comedy...western...actioner?? 00:48 - What's On (Hanna, Final Destination 5, Larry Crowne, Billy T: Te Movie, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale, Senna, Fire In Babylon, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3D) 15:45 - NZFF: Tiny Furniture 20:45 - NZFF: Let The Bullets Fly 35:16 - fin Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com. Jacob Powell is always available over at twitter.com/jacobunny too, feel free to hit him up about his own show, Best Worst Podcast!

Shit's going down at 240°C as we record by the oven with pork sizzlin' away and Nige talks too damn loud while drinking Cory's Hennessy. Jon Favreau isn't as actiony OR in-your-facey as we'd hoped, but two Russian fellas scrapping in the Arctic did the trick! Then we pluck an unaired Film Fest rant from the archives for y'all! We also talk about what's on at the moment and Cory announces that 3D is coming and is the new thing! 01:30 - Cowboys & Aliens 10:50 - How I Ended This Summer 15:47 - What's On (The Tree Of Life, The Guard, El Violin, Crazy, Stupid, Love., 3D films, TT3D: Closer To The Edge, Priest 3D, McLuhan's Wake & The Bicycle Thieves) 29:20 - NZFF: Martha Marcy Mae Marlene 37:26 - fin Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com

Cory can't decide whether Dumbledore is the CEO of McDonald's or a maths freak. Nige can't decide whether it was all worth it (but appears to have a crush on Rupert Grint). It's a battle for the ages as we hoot & holler slash piss & moan about JK's world of wizardry. 0:54 - The Harry Potter Confrontation 36:14 - What's On (Mr. Nice, The Double Hour, Billy T: Te Movie, Overheard 2, Cars 2, The Woman With The Five Elephants & Summer Wars) 46:41 - Fin Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com

Cory & Nige storm through some Top Ten lists and wrap-up the NZ International Film Festival; Nige tries to keep it down in the library while Jake dazzles him with words like evinced & egalitarian; then we sit down by the pool table as Pat reminisces about clowns with SMGs. 4:24 - Cory & Nige's favourite fucked-up moments 11:44 - Cory & Nige's favourite characters 21:51 - Cory & Nige's favourite scenes 33:12 - Cory & Nige's favourite films 51:12 - Jake's best-of lists 64:22 - Pat's best-of lists 77:06 - What's On 86:20

Nige loses his cool trying to fathom Cory's passion for THE TURIN HORSE; famous cat Bill Gosden - the Film Fest director - stops by for a schmooze; and we are completely swept up by super-cool actiony Korean thing THE YELLOW SEA. 1:20 - The Turin Horse 11:16 - A chat with NZFF Director Bill Gosden 28:32 - The Yellow Sea

The ever-brilliant Michael Shannon acts up a storm again in TAKE SHELTER, Michelle Williams is back with Kelly Reichhardt as a lost early settler and the director of Maria, Full Of Grace brings us a fascinating tale of family vs. family in Albania. 1:27 - Take Shelter 6:06 - Meek's Cutoff 12:40 - The Forgiveness Of Blood

As the New Zealand International Film Festival gyrates on, we dip willingly into crazy-Japan via COLD FISH, before Jake from Best Worst podcast stops in to share a chuckle over THE MAN FROM NOWHERE (actually from Korea) and ATTENBERG (a Greek film we were hoping'd be Dogtooth 2)… 01:26 - Cold Fish 10:08 - The Man From Nowhere 19:00 - Attenberg

The New Zealand International Film Festival is upon us, our favourite time of year!! We get to ease in perfectly with the classic Scorsese film TAXI DRIVER, then hit SUBMARINE - featuring odd Welsh schoolkids and their equally odd parents - before Takashi Miike's samurai battle, 13 ASSASSINS. We can die happy now… 01:37 - Taxi Driver 08:33 - Submarine 14:57 - 13 Assassins

Of the five films that we saw, we spend most of that time shredding the one that we DIDN'T enjoy. Because that's more fun to listen to. Or at least record. 00:00 - Intro, spoiler warning & Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 16:15 - My Afternoons With Margueritte (plus chatter about the Lido) 19:48 - Of Gods & Men 24:11 - Sansho The Bailliff 26:38 - V48 Hours National Finals 29:37 - What's On: Wu Xia (plus banter about Three Kings and A Passage To India) 31:46 - What's On: Kung Fu Panda 2 33:45 - What's On: The Company Men (while it storms outside) 34:38 - What's On: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: pt2

We attended the launch of this years Auckland Film Festival where we got to see the wonderful MEDIANERAS... which we loved, and get our hands on the awesome brochure. This episode is devoted to all that has captured our eye. There’s too many to make this nice and tidy - so brace yourselves for a list. I Saw The Devil Melancholia Take Shelter Taxi Driver 13 Assassins Sleeping Beauty Animation Now 2011 Animation For Kids 2011 Supinfocom Page One: Inside The New York Times Bobby Fischer Against The World Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travel Of A Tribe Called Quest Attenberg The Future Martha May Marcy Marlene Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3D Pina 3D Cold Fish Norwegian Wood Fritz Lang's Metropolis / Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horrors The Kid With A Bike Arrietty The Yellow Sea The Man From Nowhere Space Battleship Yamato Meek's Cutoff Hobo With A Shotgun Troll Hunter The Last Circus Let The Bullets Fly Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Mana Waka Project Nim Tyrannosaur Passione Submarine

SUPER 8 leaves us super impressed... and we tell you all about it. As well as covering the plethora of new films out this week: GREEN LANTERN, BRIDESMAIDS, CEDAR RAPIDS, THE CONSPIRATOR, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE, MAMMUTH, CARS 2, BAD TEACHER, & BEGINNING OF THE GREAT REVIVAL.

It’s high time we outlined how things work around here, so we invite you backstage to our first Annual General Meeting, then it's straight into the origin of Magneto, Professor X... and the whole X-Men team... and I tell you right now, it's all First Class.

A Double Feature at the Capitol Cinema really impresses, which has a lot to do with Duncan Jones (aka. Zowie Bowie) making great films. Nige finally catches up with Temuera Morrison and Ray Winstone climbing all over NZ scenery. Nige also catches ARTHUR (Russell not Dudley), FAST FIVE, A CHINESE GHOST STORY, and has a wonderful story about his re-watch of THE ILLUSIONIST.

Drinks take precedent this week, as we slur our way through the latest Mjölnir welding Superhero, espouse our love for the English drama ANOTHER YEAR, and our streak of bad Chinese films end with the historical epic THE LOST BLADESMAN. Nige needs a few more to handle a certain CGI Easter Bunny (much to Cory's delight). Then we wrap with Kurosawa's classic Samurai piece and Charlie Sheen's old Vietnam movie. Happy Birthday Nige!

Disagreements & disarray this week as Zack Snyder gets all up in our face again and cannibals struggle to make their impression in WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. Frost & Pegg venture out with PAUL, Ray & Tem take a walk in TRACKER & Brando cracks in REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. Plus the World Cinema Showcase finishes up with SAGAN, UNCLE BOONMEE, SMASH HIS CAMERA & the 2007 raids of OPERATION 8

We pretend this is a regular job, job-type job and interview the Don of NZ Film - nice guy Film Fest Director Bill Gosden. Then its 8 films and running with our thoughts on; THE WAY BACK, TUCKER & DALE vs EVIL, RESTREPO, ARMADILLO, COLD WEATHER, OCEANS, SOURCE CODE, and FRANKENSTEIN. Now Frankenstein's really a filmed play... oh - and Armadillo's a Danish film - please disregard when we say it's Dutch (15 times).

We cover off drug fueled mystery thriller's, mystery fueled thrilling doco's, absurd surreal comedy horror's, beautiful British dystopian drama's, annoying Chinese action comedy's, and Duvall & Murray's deep drama. Fantastic films abound as the World Cinema Showcase starts, and we still manage to tell you what's on. Aren't you lucky.

Aliens Invading the Earth... Towns water supply running out... I guess I'd call Aaron Eckhart & Johnny Depp as well. That and we go toe to toe to reveal our favourites of 2010

The eagerly anticpated relationship Drama that made Nige's top ten of the year "Blue Valentine" combined with Matt Damon's Sci-Rom "The Adjustment Bureau" from a Philip K. Dick Short, make this episode a treat. We round off nicely with our picks for this year's World Cinema Showcase... and what's on.