Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand: 815 Films to Buy & Rent
Colour of War: The ANZACs (2004)
- Dir. Paul Rudd, Ben Ulm
Feat. Russell Crowe
- Russell Crowe hosts this documentary TV series about the Australian and New Zealand military experience from the 1930s to Vietnam, utilising colour…
Dame Kiri and Friends - The Gala Concert (2004)
- A concert performed at the Aotea Centre, Auckland to celebrate the launch of the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation. Dame Kiri sings with other luminaries…
Facelift (TV Series) (2004-2006)
- A genuinely hilarious, Kiwi–centric sketch satire spoofing many of New Zealand’s best known ‘faces’, with various masked actors…
Flatmates Wanted (2004)
- Dir. Gary Davies
Feat. Luke Hutching, Nick Broadhurst, Chris Yates
- A no–budget psychological horror of disappearing flatmates and disturbing reoccuring dreams, this plays out with the quirky mix of horror and…
Fracture (2004)
- Dir. Larry Parr
Feat. Kate Elliot, Miranda Harcourt, Jennifer Ward-Lealand…
- An impressively staged adaptation of Maurice Gee's novel "Crime Story", set around two equally fractured families who enter each other's orbit after…
Futile Attraction (2004)
- Dir. Mark Prebble
Feat. Michelle Ang, Alistair Browning
- Set around a 'Reality TV' show, whose attempt to follow a couple from arranged date through to consummation is frustrated when the selected twosome…
Gladiators Of World War Two - The Anzacs (2004)
- A special look at the contributions of the Australian and New Zealand ANZAC troops during WWII, covering the Greek, African, Italian and Pacific…
Hayley Westenra - Live in Concert (2004)
- The golden–voiced New Zealand singer in a spell–binding live setting at the St James Theatre, Wellington (August 2004). Singing a variety…
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
- Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Tom Selleck, James Remar, Timothy Bottoms…
- Historical war dramatization of the three months leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower…
In My Father's Den (2004)
- Dir. Brad McGann
Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto…
- Achieving a new high watermark in production terms at least, this vivid New Zealand melodrama harnesses the complexities of Maurice Gee's…