Movies

If you are looking for an introduction to the work of the Danish master, Carl Th. Dreyer, his final film probably isn’t the best place to start, says Dan Slevin. Video

Roger Ebert famously called Liliana Cavani’s post-holocaust potboiler “despicable” but Dan Slevin says it has earned a place in European cinema history. Video

Professor Emeritus Roger Horrocks MNZM is an expert on the life and work of New Zealand born artist and filmmaker Len Lye. He was Lye's assistant in New York during the last year of Lye's life and… Audio, Gallery

Tusi Tamasese's debut feature The Orator - O Le Tulafale scored multiple honours at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. He talks about his new film One Thousand Ropes. Audio

And a new web-site Never Repeats sets out to watch every New Zealand film - good and bad. Simon talks to hosts Hayden Frost and L J Ritchie. Video, Audio

Brazilian award-winner Aquarius sees ageing Sonia Braga determined to hang onto the beachfront apartment she was brought up in. Video, Audio

Life returns to Alien territory, when a crew of a space-station find themselves hosting an ever-growing, hostile creature from Mars. Stars Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal. Video, Audio

Simon Morris reviews the sci-fi thriller Life and Brazilian award-winner Aquarius and talks to Hayden Frost and LJ Ritchie about their plans to review every NZ film ever in their podcast Never… Video, Audio

It's the 25th anniversary of the Pasifika Festival, and RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin has been delving into the films set in the Pacific over the last few decades... and has concluded that Hollywood has… Video, Audio

While cats are the undisputed kings of the internet, they don't actually feature very prominently in TV shows and films - no doubt largely because of their notorious difficulty in being wrangled… Video, Audio

2016 was by any definition a pretty good one for NZ films – big hits, the continuing rise and rise of Taika Waititi, climaxing in another Oscar for the hugely successful editor John Gilbert for… Audio

Trespass against us - about a family of traveller criminals - stars the dream team of Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. Audio

New Zealand comedy Gary of the Pacific is about a real-estate agent who becomes chief of an island Paradise. Stars Josh Thomson. Audio

Loving is the true story of the 1960s couple that defied segregated Virginia and ended up changing the law. Starring Oscar-nominee Ruth Negga, Joel Egerton and Kiwi Marton Csokas. Audio

Simon Morris looks at three films that all, in different ways, fail to excite: Loving, Gary of the Pacific and Trespass Against Us. Video, Audio

New Zealand is well-known for making great documentaries - we like real-life stories it seems. But they do occasionally tend to ramble. That's not the case of our preeminent documentary initiative… Audio