Posts by Geoff Lealand
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the only music mag I regularly read in print now is The Word.
Ditto. I have had a subscription for two years. Their electronic Something for Friday bulletins and samplers are real bonuses.
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I thought it might be Flick (The Little Fire Engine).
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I have been in Napier for a long weekend (where there is landscape) and catching up on the conversations here. I am pretty much in accord with you Graham, about the alleged 'unique' qualities of the NZ landscape/filmscape. We tend to focus on the big feature films, forgetting that there have been a number of tele-features or series shot here, where NZ has stood in for all kinds of different places eg Lucy (CBS, 2003), where Auckland stood in for Los Angeles or Countdown to D-Day, where Tom Selleck (playing Ike Eisenhower) launched the liberation of Europe from the shores of New Zealand! As someone involved with both ventures remarked "We can fake America better than anyone else!"
In addition, most of the locations in LOTR have been so digitally enhanced or altered, they are several generations away from the original landscapes!
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An interesting debate. The current ding-dong reminds me a little of the MEAA's role in the Project Blue Sky row between Australia and New Zealand--a situation when both sides had a good case.
I wonder if I need to revisit the chapter I wrote on Jackson (and 'The Jackson Effect') for the forthcoming New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History (Te Papa Press). I did stress that PJ is not a New Zealand film director/producer per se, but a film-maker making films in NZ for a global market, in an environment where overseas/runaway productions are greatly advantaged by our de-unionised labour market.
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@Peter Grower. As a very occasional poster to PAS,you do need to know that we treat each other with a bit more courtesy around here.
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can I put in a plug for Chris Lipscombe for Wellington Regional Council (on the Labour ticket)
I second that. Knew him at Univ of Cant'by and he is a damn fine bloke.
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I never bloody get past chapter three of any Dickens
Danielle: Seeing you have such impeccable taste in music, you should persist with CD. Have a go at The Pickwick Papers for a barrel of laughs. Dickens and Greene are the writers I turn to, when I yearn to spurn the fashionable and the contemporary.
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A very handsomely done PDF it is too.
That is one reason I like working with Intellect Books. They provide free access to their publications in this way (the Japan collection may still be available) and have a policy of providing all their publications available without charge to over 20 of the world's poorest countries. Probably not that great for booksellers but they are driven by a social agenda.
Incidentally, I am starting to look for prospective writers for volume II, to be published in 2012. I intend to boost the NZ content, so contact me if you are interested, with your ideas (on NZ genres, specific NZ films/film-makers), at lealand@waikato.ac.nz
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Don't know if I entirely trust people who don't have a book in the house.
I feel much the same about a house without a TV set!
Still, if the only books were Mein Kampf and gun manuals, I would feel a bit uneasy. :-)
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Friday being a sharing and caring day, some of you might be interested in this offer from Intellect Books (UK). Ben Goldsmith edited the Australian section: I edited the New Zealand section:
Intellect Directory of World Cinema: Australia & New Zealand is still available as a limited FREE download. Take a look at the website to download your copy now: [http://www.worldcinemadirectory.org/]