Interview: Pico Iyer
Subscriber contentBy Alexander Bisley in Books
Issue 3794 17th Jan 2013
Pico Iyer has much in common with the subject of his “counter-biography”, Graham Greene. And so, too, does Leonard Cohen, he argues.
Michael Winterbottom interview
Subscriber contentBy Alexander Bisley in Film
Issue 3714 16th Jul 2011
The British film director discusses The Trip, a picaresque jaunt with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon through the north of England, screening at the NZ International Film Festival.
A wall was now between us
Subscriber contentBy Alexander Bisley in Film
Issue 3626 7th Nov 2009
Politics was not an abstract thing for East German film-maker Andreas Dresen after his father was exiled to the West for supporting a dissident.
Dark Forces
By Alexander Bisley in Dance
9th Aug 2008
An ominous tone pervades the RNZB's Romeo and Juliet.