Category: Film

  • Arch Centre Event : ‘The Brutalist’ – Jan 26, 2025

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    “When visionary architect László Toth (Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Guy Pearce).” What: AC hosting screening of A24 movie The Brutalist When: 26th January, 2025. 16.30 (upstairs mezzanine) with movie starting…

  • How much does your building weigh…?

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    There is a film on tonight at the Paramount, and repeated on Saturday morning, called: How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster. We haven’t seen it yet as it is part of the International Film Festival on at present in the

  • Motor City

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    I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on…

  • Summertime architectural gems

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    Rough, cut or cooked …

  • Pecha Kucha was tonight

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    If you wanted to see the latest Pecha Kucha night in Wellington, then : apologies, because you’ve just missed it. I presume that you know what I’m on about? If not, then go here and discover all about it. A global phenomenom by now, running periodically in 248 cities now, it was Wellington’s turn tonight…

  • Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

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    This documentary is a treasure trove of modernist architectural eyecandy, like a Taschen coffee table book come to life. ‘Visual acoustics’ is a coinage of photographer Julius Shulman, and the film is a celebration of his decades of work shooting architecture. Shulman was so intimately connected and concerned with promoting the homes created by the…

  • A Place to Stay : film

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    What: A Place to Stay – a film about Salisbury Garden Court When: Saturday July 11, 11.30am Where: Paramount Cinema, Courtney Place This film by Marie Russell and Shane Loader presents the history of Salisbury Court in Wadestown, and asks, what is the relationship between people, their community, and the architecture that surrounds and houses…

  • Film : Rem Koolhaas – A Kind of Architect

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    When: 3.45pm Friday 10 April & 1pm Sunday 12 April Where: Paramount Theatre, Courtney Place As part of the World Cinema Showcase 2009, this documentary by Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch, discusses the ‘whirlwind career’ of Koolhaas: architect, filmaker, journalist, urban theorist. “The climax comes with his first skyscraper, the amazing “loop in space” of…

  • Lecture and film screening of Oscar Niemeyer’s “Life is a Breath of Air”

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    When : 6.00pm, Wednesday 8th April 2009 Where : LT1 Faculty of Architecture and Design VUW 139 Vivian Street, Wellington niemeyer-poster

  • Documentary Film Festival (Wellington)

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    The Wellington season of the DOCNZ 2009 Documentary Film Festival is on sooon! This year the films are screening at Hoyts Regent on Manners. Festival includes world premiere of ‘Architect of Dreams‘ about Ian Athfield. New Zealand 2008 / 52min, Director Geoffrey Cawthorn. Producer Richard Riddiford.