New Zealand Films and Soundtracks - November Update
Charles
The 2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards have come and gone. The
feature films results are as follows: 'Boy' cleaned up with a total of
seven awards - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor
(Taika Waititi), Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography
and Best Original Music. The next highest total of awards was
collected by 'The Vintner's Luck'. It's three awards were for Best
Lead Actress ( Vera Farmiga), Best Production Design and Best Costume
Design. 'Home by Christmas' received awards for Best Lead Actor (Tony
Barry) and Best Sound and 'Under the Mountain'</a> received awards for
Best Visual Effects and Makeup Design. Finally 'Russian Snark'
received an award for Best Supporting Actress (Stephanie Tauevihi).
'Home By Christmas' has its own page added to the database, including
a link to the original soundtrack information with mp3 audio samples
of all tracks. More soundtrack upgrades have occurred with images of
most all CD back covers now present and more mp3 soundtrack sample
clips of older films that are not available on CD. The site now has
links to over 185 soundtrack samples.
There now is a page for the soundtrack of 'The Insatiable Moon', with
a link to track samples - well worth checking and can be purchased
either as a CD or a download. I received news that the DVD releases of
'Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree' and 'Send a Gorilla' is being delayed
with a new release date sometime in February 2011. There has been a
rumour floating around that 'The Frighteners' was to be released on
Blu-ray last week - not so. What is so is that all of the Peter
Jackson features not yet on Blu-ray - 'The Frighteners', 'Bad Taste',
'Braindead' and 'Meet the Feebles' - will be coming to Blu-ray, but no
official release dates have yet been set for any of these titles.
Blu-ray users will find that it is now a bit easier to locate discs.
I have added links to Google listings of worldwide resellers at my "HD
& Blu-ray Discs" page. Gradually, I will be adding more Blu-ray info
at this page, including forthcoming release details. This and many
other details regarding New Zealand feature films and their
soundtracks
can be found at the informational website:
Enjoy,
Charles