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Arts Pasifika Award recipients for 2002.
Johnny Penisula
The Iosefa Enari Memorial Award
is being awarded to Ben Makisi. Both men are pictured
together singing. Ben Makisi is on the left.
Richard Cooper
Richard Cooper’s Manukau
Sculpture
Richard Cooper’s Manukau
Sculpture
Howard Davis: Joel Coen's Monochromatic Macbeth
The Bard of Avon may well be smirking up the sleeves of his lace doublet at the irony of Will Smith's Oscar debacle, but now that the initial furore has dissipated, it's worth revisiting the movie for which Denzel Washington was also nominated. More>>
Howard Davis: Kenneth Branagh’s Black & White Belfast
Branagh has assembled a wonderful cast, including Ciarán Hinds, a gently formidable actor who well deserves his Oscar nomination, and Judi Dench, who steals every scene she’s in. More>>
Howard Davis: Dennis Villeneuve’s Dune - A Brief History
So many elements of Herbert’s novel have since become tropes of popular SciFi that Villeneuve’s film sometimes seems deceptively derivative. What makes all this nonsense essential viewing is his astonishing visual sensibility. More>>
Howard Davis: Jill Trevelyan's Rita Angus
Although Angus has become one of Aotearoa’s best-loved painters, the story of her life remained little known and poorly understood before Jill Trevelyan's acclaimed and revelatory biography, which has been republished by Te Papa press. More>>
