Widescreen
RNZ’s online guide to what’s playing on our screens — with Dan Slevin.
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Roald and the Giant Screen
With Steven Spielberg’s The BFG in cinemas this week, Dan Slevin chats to Afternoons’ Jesse Mulligan about the history of Roald Dahl adaptations on the big screen. Read more Video, Audio
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Rancho Notorious 4/14: Morning Tea with BG
NZIFF director Bill Gosden visits Rancho Notorious for freshly baked muffins and freshly brewed coffee and to chat about this year's event which opens in Auckland on Thursday. Dan also interviews… Read more Audio
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Prince on Film
Dan Slevin chats to Jesse Mulligan about Prince’s cinematic efforts and why his best film is only available in Australia and New Zealand. Read more Video, Audio
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Online viewing picks of the week (1 July)
The best* online video we’ve been watching over the last seven days, including an appreciation of the animated Batman, Werner Herzog plays football and heroes from 32 different sci-fi movies unite to… Read more Video, Audio
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Bill Cunningham and New York fashion
28 Jun 2016Dan Slevin talks to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons about influential fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (subject of 2010’s Bill Cunningham New York) and other documentary portraits of the New York… Read more Video, Audio
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Widescreen’s best of the web (24 June)
Our pick of the best* and most interesting screen-related articles and features from around the web – special close reading edition – including Rohmer’s swimsuits, Ridley Scott’s typography, and An… Read more
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Rancho Notorious 4/13: Well and Truly Launched
Newstalk ZB’s Darren Bevan sits in for Kailey this episode to help Dan Slevin discuss the NZIFF programme while Dan interviews the director of Labyrinth of Lies. Read more Audio
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NZIFF 2016 Programme Launch – First look
Widescreen’s Dan Slevin chats to Jon Bridges for Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan about this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival programme which was launched yesterday. Read more Video, Audio
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Football at the Movies
To celebrate the current Euro 2016 and Copa America Centenario championships, Dan Slevin chats to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons about how football has been portrayed in the movies. Read more Video, Audio
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Online viewing picks of the week (9 June)
The best* online video we’ve been watching over the last seven days including putting the needle on the record, who earns what on a blockbuster and a superb Star Wars/North by Northwest mash-up. Read more Video
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Rancho Notorious 4/12: The Other Nice Guys
Kailey and Dan make an unstructured (if not shambolic) return to podcasting after an extended break. Read more Audio
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Muhammad Ali on the Big Screen
Widescreen’s Dan Slevin chats to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons about the big screen portrayals of the boxer who was larger than life. Read more Video, Audio
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Online viewing picks of the week (24 May)
The best* online video we’ve been watching over the last seven days including Jackie Chan: the master of action comedy, Hollywood homages Citizen Kane and Knight of Cups gets the ‘City Symphonies’… Read more Video
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Widescreen’s best of the web (20 May)
Our pick of the best* and most interesting screen-related articles and features from around the web, including the rise of Justin Lin, Peak TV, Magic Mike v Gene Kelly and Anna Karina on life with… Read more
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Online viewing picks of the week (17 May)
The best* online video we’ve been watching over the last seven days, including Star Wars reimagined as James Bond, Cannes favourites since 2010 and how an editor thinks and feels. Read more Video
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Rancho Notorious 4/11: DocEdge Special Edition
While Dan moves house and the Ranch is all in boxes, we have a special interim edition of the podcast - the full interview with DocEdge co-director Dan Shanan that was recorded last week for At the… Read more Audio
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Widescreen’s best of the web (6 May)
Our pick of the best* and most interesting screen-related articles and features from around the web including the perils and pitfalls of shared universes, Idris Elba unmasked and a reassessment of … Read more
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Review: Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky gives our leaders – and those who fight for them – the benefit of the doubt regarding their intentions, even as it breathlessly interrogates their consciences, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video, Audio
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Rancho Notorious 4/10: I Wanna Be Like You-oo-oo
Kailey and Dan chat about a bunch of current cinema releases, but especially The Jungle Book, while Dan chats to Paolo Rotondo about his first feature, Orphans & Kingdoms. Read more Video, Audio
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Home Video: Our Brand Is Crisis and Truth review
Two new films abut politics fail to capture what makes the topic so fascinating... and entertaining, says Dan Slevin. Read more Video
Widescreen
Widescreen is a curated corner of the RNZ website dedicated to what’s on our screens. Producer and presenter Dan Slevin reviews the biggest and the smallest new cinema releases, highlights the best and worst of the direct-to-video and streaming sectors plus interviews with fascinating film people, podcasting with some of New Zealand’s smartest film brains and highlights of all the great movie content produced by other bits of Radio New Zealand.
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