Arts & Music
A pound of Douglas’s flesh by Amy Prebble
That rarest of programming creatures – a New Zealand arts documentary – plays on primetime TV this week. Is Leanne Pooley’s film about dancer Douglas Wright an early sign of TVNZ responding to the charter?Theatre Organ donors by Natasha Hay
THE VIAGRA MONOLOGUES, written and directed by Geraldine Brophy; Native Tongue, Herald Theatre, Auckland (to August 9).Music Made in Japan by Jim Pinckney
ZONGAMIN, Zongamin (XL/Shock)
BLAIR WITCH & BU$H OF GHOST PROJECT, Toshio Nakanishi and Kensuke Shiina (Postage, Japan)Film Gwyneth does a little light slumming by Helene Wong
VIEW FROM THE TOP
Directed by Bruno Barreto; PG Contains coarse language
DARK BLUE
Directed by Ron Shelton; R16 Contains violence and offensive languageArt Small but perfectly formed by William McAloon
IT’S A SMALL WORLD, Pataka, Porirua (to September 21).Art A visit to Venice by Jon Bywater
A farm vehicle and a wall of butter boxes are New Zealand’s contribution to the Venice Biennale.
Books
Writing yesterday by Steve Braunias
A superb history of our colonial past, which ought to win a major prize at next week’s national book awards, raises issues about how to treat race – both Pakeha and Maori – in New Zealand historical writing.Once upon a time in the south by Greg Fleming
WHITE DOVES AT MORNING, by James Lee Burke (Orion, $35).Gotta watch Wapner. Gotta watch Wapner by Damian Christie
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, by Mark Haddon (Random, $36.95).A quick and gruesome Dash around Australia by Barry Reay
BATAVIA’S GRAVEYARD, by Mike Dash (Phoenix, $27.95).Two good shots and you're Tiger Woods by Roy Colbert
IN SEARCH OF TIGER: A Golfing Odyssey, by Ian Stafford (Random House, $34.95).Cover story by Steve Braunias
FRONT PAGE: Covers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Stephane Duperray and Raphaele Vidaling (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, $75).
