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Kaleidoscope (1987)

Name: Kaleidoscope
Director: Howard Taylor
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1987-07-26
Duration: 35 min
Cast: Merata Mita, Roger Donaldson, John Barnett, Geoff Murphy, Larry Parr

NZ Cinema, the Past Decade

TMDB 0.00h 35mDocumentary

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Plot Summary

This Kaleidoscope documentary timed in with the release of Nicholas Reid’s book A Decade of New Zealand Cinema. The book cherrypicked Reid's favourites from the renaissance in local movies that began with Sleeping Dogs in 1977. Reid and a who’s who of local filmmakers discuss many of the 50+ features from the previous decade (with Bruno Lawrence ever present). They ponder the uniqueness (or otherwise) of Kiwi film. A fondness for rural and small town settings, and forceful, often conflicted, male leads is explored. Neglected areas — Māori film and more of a voice for women — are traversed.