Big Screen Auckland

There's no txters & no gangstas this week! Cory & Nige find yet another new favourite in a Quebecian mystery set in the Middle East; Cory sings one of Howard Shore's LOTR scores for us during our musings on the transient (??) Terrence Malick film, The Tree Of Life; and we mention the pleasant Billy T. James doco before Nige tries to fit as much IMDB as he can into our discussion of what's on this coming week…

00:55 - Incendies

06:40 - The Tree Of Life (plus chatter about Cannes and Lord Of The Rings)

21:35 - Billy T: Te Movie

26:05 - What's On (Jane Eyre, The Help, Steam Of Life, Weekend & The Center. Plus talk of Breaking Bad, Iconoclasts and a bunch of upcoming projects from Nige's favourite actors)

37:48 - fin

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With Cory being ill and Editor Nige being slack, we were unable to successfully put together an episode about the films we saw this week; however, we are so very wonderful, that we've pieced together a show from some unaired Film Fest stuff for you. We discuss the Big Screen's latest offerings first, then a lo-fi indie flick before our good pal Jake tries to work out what we thought of a certain Chinese...period...comedy...western...actioner??

00:48 - What's On (Hanna, Final Destination 5, Larry Crowne, Billy T: Te Movie, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale, Senna, Fire In Babylon, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3D)

15:45 - NZFF: Tiny Furniture

20:45 - NZFF: Let The Bullets Fly

35:16 - fin

Feel free to hit Cory up at twitter.com/corynz or Nige by commenting on anything over at nigemo.wordpress.com. Jacob Powell is always available over at twitter.com/jacobunny too, feel free to hit him up about his own show, Best Worst Podcast!

Shit's going down at 240°C as we record by the oven with pork sizzlin' away and Nige talks too damn loud while drinking Cory's Hennessy. Jon Favreau isn't as actiony OR in-your-facey as we'd hoped, but two Russian fellas scrapping in the Arctic did the trick! Then we pluck an unaired Film Fest rant from the archives for y'all! We also talk about what's on at the moment and Cory announces that 3D is coming and is the new thing!

01:30 - Cowboys & Aliens

10:50 - How I Ended This Summer

15:47 - What's On (The Tree Of Life, The Guard, El Violin, Crazy, Stupid, Love., 3D films, TT3D: Closer To The Edge, Priest 3D, McLuhan's Wake & The Bicycle Thieves)

29:20 - NZFF: Martha Marcy Mae Marlene

37:26 - fin

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Cory can't decide whether Dumbledore is the CEO of McDonald's or a maths freak. Nige can't decide whether it was all worth it (but appears to have a crush on Rupert Grint). It's a battle for the ages as we hoot & holler slash piss & moan about JK's world of wizardry.

0:54 - The Harry Potter Confrontation

36:14 - What's On (Mr. Nice, The Double Hour, Billy T: Te Movie, Overheard 2, Cars 2, The Woman With The Five Elephants & Summer Wars)

46:41 - Fin

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Cory & Nige storm through some Top Ten lists and wrap-up the NZ International Film Festival; Nige tries to keep it down in the library while Jake dazzles him with words like evinced & egalitarian; then we sit down by the pool table as Pat reminisces about clowns with SMGs.

4:24 - Cory & Nige's favourite fucked-up moments

11:44 - Cory & Nige's favourite characters

21:51 - Cory & Nige's favourite scenes

33:12 - Cory & Nige's favourite films

51:12 - Jake's best-of lists

64:22 - Pat's best-of lists

77:06 - What's On

86:20

Nige loses his cool trying to fathom Cory's passion for THE TURIN HORSE; famous cat Bill Gosden - the Film Fest director - stops by for a schmooze; and we are completely swept up by super-cool actiony Korean thing THE YELLOW SEA.

1:20 - The Turin Horse

11:16 - A chat with NZFF Director Bill Gosden

28:32 - The Yellow Sea

The ever-brilliant Michael Shannon acts up a storm again in TAKE SHELTER, Michelle Williams is back with Kelly Reichhardt as a lost early settler and the director of Maria, Full Of Grace brings us a fascinating tale of family vs. family in Albania.

1:27 - Take Shelter

6:06 - Meek's Cutoff

12:40 - The Forgiveness Of Blood

As the New Zealand International Film Festival gyrates on, we dip willingly into crazy-Japan via COLD FISH, before Jake from Best Worst podcast stops in to share a chuckle over THE MAN FROM NOWHERE (actually from Korea) and ATTENBERG (a Greek film we were hoping'd be Dogtooth 2)…

01:26 - Cold Fish

10:08 - The Man From Nowhere

19:00 - Attenberg

The New Zealand International Film Festival is upon us, our favourite time of year!! We get to ease in perfectly with the classic Scorsese film TAXI DRIVER, then hit SUBMARINE - featuring odd Welsh schoolkids and their equally odd parents - before Takashi Miike's samurai battle, 13 ASSASSINS. We can die happy now…

01:37 - Taxi Driver

08:33 - Submarine

14:57 - 13 Assassins

Of the five films that we saw, we spend most of that time shredding the one that we DIDN'T enjoy. Because that's more fun to listen to. Or at least record.

00:00 - Intro, spoiler warning & Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

16:15 - My Afternoons With Margueritte (plus chatter about the Lido)

19:48 - Of Gods & Men

24:11 - Sansho The Bailliff

26:38 - V48 Hours National Finals

29:37 - What's On: Wu Xia (plus banter about Three Kings and A Passage To India)

31:46 - What's On: Kung Fu Panda 2

33:45 - What's On: The Company Men (while it storms outside)

34:38 - What's On: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: pt2