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Subgenre Sampler

 
Leading Edge, TheLeading Edge, The (1986)
Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Billy T. James
Adventure docu–drama that's little more than an excuse to show off some wonderful South Island scenery and awesome ski theatrics. Billy T.…
Queen City RockerQueen City Rocker (1986)
Dir. Bruce Morrison
Feat. Matthew Hunter, William Edwardson, Sarah Douglas
Four days in the life of a young Auckland punk looking to escape the treadmill of violence and crime.
Leave All FairLeave All Fair (1985)
Dir. John Reid
Feat. John Gielgud, Jane Birkin
A rewarding drama set among the memories of John Middleton Murray (John Gielgud), husband of NZ writer Katherine Mansfield (Jane Birkin). Well worth…
Lost Tribe, TheLost Tribe, The (1985)
Dir. John Laing
Feat. John Bach, Darien Takle, Martyn Sanderson
John Bach's performance is the highlight of this mysterious drama in which he plays a man suspected of murdering his anthropologist brother who has…
Mesmerized (1985)
Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy
Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
Should I Be Good or Should I Be Evil?Should I Be Good or Should I Be Evil? (1985)
Dir. Graham McLean
Feat. Beaver , Harry Lyon
Musos Beaver and Harry Lyon from Hello Sailor have a bash at acting in a story based on the Mr Asia drug–ring. Music by Hammond Gamble.
SylviaSylvia (1985)
Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Eleanor David
Eleanor David plays Sylvia Ashton–Warner, educational cruasader and best–selling author in the 1940s.
Among the CindersAmong the Cinders (1984)
Dir. Rolf Haedrich
Feat. Paul O'Shea, Derek Hardwick, Yvonne Lawley
A tender chronicle of a 16–year–old's rite–of–passage who finds first love with an older woman embittered by her experience…
Grasp Of Wind, AGrasp Of Wind, A (1984)
Dir. Robert Franken, Russell Campbell
Feat. Neal Gunn
Dutch born New Zealand visual artist Robert Franken's one–and–only directorial effort is a quietly surreal, wordless fable in which a…
Heart of the StagHeart of the Stag (1984)
Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Terence Cooper, Bruno Lawrence
A harrowing drama that deals frankly yet sensitively with the subject of incest. Terence Cooper plays a brutish farmer whose dreadful secret is soon…

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