Widescreen
RNZ’s online guide to what’s playing on our screens — with Dan Slevin.
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Preview: Terror-Fi Festival
Dan Slevin previews three titles from Aotearoa’s number one festival celebrating genre films. Read more Video
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Fifty best films: North by Northwest
The third of the three (equal) number 45 entries in the Fifty Best Films of All Time list is the first genuine crowd-pleaser in the top fifty, according to Dan Slevin. Read more Video
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Preview: 2023 British and Irish Film Festival
Dan Slevin previews three of the 17 titles in a festival that showcases a wide range of films recently produced in the UK and Eire. Read more Video
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Taylor Swift rides in to save cinema with Eras:
Dan Slevin experiences the phenomenon that is Taylor Swift – in concert. Read more Video
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Preview: 2023 Show Me Shorts Film Festival
Dan Slevin checks out four of the 86 films programmed in this year’s Show Me Shorts Film Festival. Read more Video
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Introducing AMC+
Almost a year after launching in Aotearoa, AMC+ may be the best value streaming service you have never heard of, says Dan Slevin. He recommends three shows to get you started. Read more
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Fifty best films: The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo’s gritty account of Algeria’s historic battle for independence is still electric viewing more than 50 years on, according to Dan Slevin. Read more Video
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Fifty best films: Barry Lyndon
Dan Slevin has made it to the three films rated as equal-45th in the Sight & Sound list of the greatest films of all time and the big-hitters have arrived. Read more Video
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Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival Preview (part three)
Dan Slevin previews two more titles from this year’s Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival. Read more Video
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Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival Preview (part two)
Dan Slevin previews three more titles from this year’s Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival. Read more Video
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Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival Preview (part one)
Dan Slevin previews three titles from this year’s Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival. Read more Video
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Is the fuss about film on “film” justified?
Dan Slevin wonders whether the nostalgia for 35mm (and even 70mm) projection is justified. Read more
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2023 DocEdge Festival preview
Dan Slevin previews three titles from this year’s DocEdge festival, on the understanding that the full programme is so diverse this small selection can’t possibly be representative of the whole. Read more Video
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First Impressions: VMAX at Queensgate
17 May 2023Theatrical exhibition is bouncing back and there’s no better evidence than the new seven-screen Event complex at Queensgate in Lower Hutt. Read more
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Preview: 2023 Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival
This festival has always been a highlight of Dan Slevin’s cinema year and the latest edition has not let him down. Read more
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Fifty best films: Ordet
Of all the directors with multiple entries in the Sight & Sound Top 50, Carl Theodor Dreyer may be the one we are least familiar with these days, says Dan Slevin Read more Video
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Film Societies return
Nothing heralds the end of summer like the return of your local film society, reports Dan Slevin. Read more
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Book Review: Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino’s first non-fiction book is a slice of cinematic history in the director’s own inimitable voice, reports Dan Slevin. Read more
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Fifty best films: Wanda
At 48th-equal in the latest Sight & Sound 50 Greatest Films list, Wanda is the first bolter, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video
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Fifty best films: The 400 Blows
Truffaut’s The 400 Blows might be the finest film about childhood of all time, according to Dan Slevin. Read more Video
Widescreen
Widescreen is a curated corner of the RNZ website dedicated to what’s on our screens. Producer and presenter Dan Slevin reviews the biggest and the smallest new cinema releases, highlights the best and worst of the direct-to-video and streaming sectors plus interviews with fascinating film people, podcasting with some of New Zealand’s smartest film brains and highlights of all the great movie content produced by other bits of Radio New Zealand.
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