Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand: 809 Films to Buy & Rent
Strip, The (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Luanne Gordon, RenĂ©e Ellwood, Jodie Rimmer…
- A highly strung corporate lawyer finds her life in disarray upon discovering her husband in bed with another man, so naturally she chucks in her job…
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (2002)
- A four–hour special on the opening of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Wellington, New Zealand. This monument was planned to commerate the…
Tongan Ninja (2002)
- Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Jemaine Clement, Sam Manu, Linda Tseng
- An engagingly cheesy martial–arts parody that derives freshness from its unique South Pacific flavour and the comic ingenuity of its star and…
Back of the Y - Masterpiece Television (TV Series) (2001)
- Dir. Chris Stapp
Feat. Matt Heath, Chris Stapp, Phil Brough
- Masterfully original TV–trash that follows in the tradition of BAD TASTE, this enacts a satirical reality–TV show of…
Being Eve (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Fleur Saville
- Spunky, good–natured Kiwi comedy essays the angsty teenage years of girl philosopher Eve Baxter, whose unconventional outlook on life is…
Blerta - The Return Trip... (Blerta Revisited) (2001)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, John Clarke, Martyn Sanderson…
- Less a nostalgia 'trip' than a brilliant compendium of manic moments from New Zealand's 1970's travelling roadshow of anarchic performance –…
Bound for Pleasure (2001)
- Dir. David Blyth
- Non–sensational delve into the Auckland B&D scene from horror dir. Blyth (DEATH WARMED UP), that throws up some bizarre scenes of mistresses,…
Crooked Earth (2001)
- Dir. Sam Pillsbury
Feat. Temuera Morrison, Lawrence Makoare, Nancy Brunning
- Vivid action–melodrama uses the dispossession of East Coast Maori to prime its tale of tribal succession, with SAS soldier Temuera Morrison…
Early Days Yet (2001)
- Dir. Shirley Horrocks
- A quietly thoughtful and engaging look at the life and work of New Zealand poet Allen Curnow, filmed when Curnow was in his late–80s and still…
Epitaph (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Paul Gittens
- TV series that scours the cemeteries of New Zealand for the intriguing, weird and worthy tales of our ancestor's demises.
Paul Gittens is the…