Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Nice to have so many Welshies in town. Feels like Cardiff again.
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Field Theory: Straight for the throat, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I was thinking of the intercept near-try, where the Irish chappie was bundled out over the touchline just two metres short of the Aussie line.
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It was a magic game, especially the runaway near-try in the last few minutes. Hamilton is buzzing for the Wales/Samoa game this afternoon (but blokes in bright blue wigs is not a good look).
Got to the Japan/AB game on Friday night at the last moment–leaving Queen Street at 4.30 and getting to the Waikato Stadium at 7.45pm.
two hours to get to the end of the motorway–you can feel your will to live draining away whilst stranded in the Auckland rush hour traffic. -
Field Theory: Let the Eagles Soar, in reply to Danielle,
It was a very good intercept try too.
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There sure has been some magnificent rugby this opening weekend--capped by the near-victory of Wales over SA.
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Hard News: Those were different times ..., in reply to Sacha,
Thanks, Sacha. I should have looked more closely.
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Hard News: Those were different times ..., in reply to recordari,
The De Luxe carries on, with Friday and Saturday and school holiday screenings.--but very dependent on community volunteers and fund-raising. You should try and get back there for the annual silent film festival (silent but for the piano and audience laughter) .
The De Luxe is pretty much part of a whole block of olde time celebration, which includes Shaflo0on & Francis grocery store.
Interesting piece in this week's Listener too, about the youth murals in Opotiki.
A sadder story is the Gaiety Theatre in Wairoa. Geoff Hole has sunk so much money and energy into this magificent old cinema and despite great community support, he can't get anything much out of the council.
Sacha: can you send me details about the Te Aro venture?
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Hard News: Those were different times ..., in reply to nzlemming,
Geoff, are you aware of any online history of the original Roxy cinema in Wellington? Or the Princess and any of the other pre-Chase fleapits?
Not online but Wayne Brittenden's The Celluloid Circus: The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre (Godwit Books, 2008) is an excellent source--and it includes photos of the Roxy and the Princess (and The Lido, which I remember bettter).
My interest is not so much in the history of the cinemas* but in those independents which are surviving, and serving local communities. New art house venues too: The Globe (a 39 seat art house cinema) opened in Ahuriri (Napier) last Friday and there is the renovated Roxy in Miramar.
* but I do include some history, such as the De Luxe in Opotiki celebrating its 85 year of operation. -
Well, this is an interesting conversation I have come late to...just been on a round trip Hamilton-Napier-Gisborne-Opotiki, visiting cinemas along the way (for my www.cinemasofnz.info website), ending up at the silent film festival in Opotiki. *
Interesting to experience contrasting versions of New Zealand on display--on one side of the street there were ladies of a certain age dressed up in some imagined past of flappers and shiny cars; across the road there was a large Maori birthday party underway, and a couple of horses hitched to the hotel railing.* the highlight was footage of the 1905 Originals and the 1926 Invincibles , screened by the Film Archive, with Lloyd Jones rteading from his Book of Fame. Not so great was watching Waikato lose the ITM Cup final, at the local Masonic Hotel.
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It would be helpful to have a glossary or Guide for Dummies so we can figure out what you guys are talking about sometimes ;-)