Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Hard News: Future shock for the media, in reply to Danielle,
I always get confused by the motorway sign for M.I.T. When did they move here? Maybe the Manukau Institute of Technology doesn't sound as grand.
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Another photo from Te Awamutu
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I should add a couple of photos from the Regent in Te Awamutu. Alan Webb has rescued memorabilia from long-closed cinemas from all around New Zealand, and integrated them into the Regent. It is like visiting a living museum. The photo above is an original 1913 box office--now more a metaphor than a physical prresence in NZ cinemas.
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A deeper sigh. Time to kiss and make up?
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Just to interrupt the cinema discussion for a moment...the Chiefs are Super 15 champions!!!!!
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Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Paul Brislen,
The Regent: was that where Richard O'Brien conceived Rocky Horror (so to speak)?
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Just reading a story about the BFI's restoration of nine of Hitchcock's silent features (there were 10 but one has been lost forever) in the latest Sight & Sound. So, really looking forward to seeing Blackmail in the Civic tomorrow--the very best place to see a film such as this,
The August Sight & Sound aso has a tribute to Hitch from Guillermo del Toro, with lines like "I'm 47 years old now, and every day when I go into the shower and turn on the tap, I think of Psycho" -
Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Richard Dalton. He also set up the Lido in Hamilton, which is a wonderful cinema,
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I was intending to be there, with high hopes for our NZ film book (I contributed Chapter 1o, on the Peter Jackson era) but things got in the way,
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Let me know when I can book my television students in for the audience. They are all keen to come but I don't think I will able to transport the whole 59 of them.
