Kaleidoscope (1987)
35m
Running Time
July 26, 1987Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Merata Mita
Subject

Roger Donaldson
Subject

John Barnett
Subject

Geoff Murphy
Subject

Larry Parr
Subject

Gaylene Preston
Subject

Don Reynolds
Subject

Vincent Ward
Subject

Denis Harvey
Producer

Alison Parr
Presenter

Bernie Wright
Sound Recordist

Allan Honey
Editor

Howard Taylor
Director
