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Film guru Ronan O Meara has been scouring the TV schedules to find movies to watch ahead of the re-opening of the hospitality sector. Here are 17 to choose.
Died: April 20, 2021. MONTE Hellman, who has died aged 91, was a film director who became the ultimate outsider. One of a generation of auteurs to have come of artistic age on the back of the post-Second World War US counterculture, his work was equally in tune with European philosophical sensibilities. The fusion of the two made for a brooding and ennui-laden canon that chimed with the times. This was seen best in Two-Lane Blacktop, (1971), an existential road movie starring singer-songwriter James Taylor and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson alongside Laurie Bird and semi-regular Hellman collaborator, Warren Oates. The British film critic, Philip French, later described it as an “existential masterpiece”.
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CK Stead’s first novel, Smith’s Dream, was published 50 years ago, but remains one of his best-known works.
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Smith’s Dream holds a special place in New Zealand literature. As Stead publishes the final volume of his memoirs, he looks back 50 years and talks to Mike White about his first novel, how it almost never made it to print, and why it has two endings. It was a slight book, barely 140 pages between hard covers. It had been laboured on during long holidays and breaks snatched between the author’s work as a professor at Auckland University.