Charles Eggen
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I currently reside in Oregon and am older than "The Bomb". I have a website dedicated to New Zealand feature films and their soundtracks. Drop by for a visit sometime - nzvideos.org
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Príbeh o statočnom hobitovi, ktorý sa postavil silám temna a spolu so svojimi priateľmi sa vydá na ťažkú púť za záchranu sveta. Hobit Frodo totiž zdedí po svojom strýkovi Bilbovi prsteň, ktorý ho postaví do súboja so silami zla, reprezentovanými krutovládcom Sauronom. Ten chce za každú cenu získať prsteň, pomocou ktorého sa môže stať neobmedzeným pánom Stredozemia. V snahe zabrániť jeho plánom sa musí Frodo spojiť s ďalšími bytosťami a spoločne sa vydávajú na cestu, na konci ktorej sa im - ako dúfajú - podarí prsteň raz a navždy zničiť...
Pokračovanie nebezpečného putovania, ktorého cieľom má byť zničenie prekliateho prsteňa moci, sa začína tam, kde sa skončilo Spoločenstvo Prsteňa... Frodo, ako nekorunovaný vodca zvláštnej, špeciálne pre túto neľahkú úlohu vytvorenej deväťčlennej skupinky, zastupujúcej záujmy hobitov, elfov, čarodejníkov, trpaslíkov i ľudí, pokračuje po prvých bolestných stratách priateľov sám, sprevádzaný len verným Samom, v ceste na vrchol sopky - aby tu prsteň raz a navždy zničil..
Ďalšia časť ságy o nebezpečnom putovaní, ktorého cieľom má byť zničenie prekliateho prsteňa moci začína tam, kde prvý skončil. Hlavným hrdinom je opäť Frodo. Ten získal od svojho príbuzného Bilba magický prsteň, po ktorom túži temný Sauron. Z tohto dôvodu sa dostal do samotného centra súboja medzi silami svetla a temnôt. Frodo ako vodca spoločenstva, zloženého z jeho priateľov, kúzelníka, elfa, trpaslíka a ďalších pomocníkov, pokračuje v ceste na vrchol sopky, aby tu prsteň raz a navždy zničil...
A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult.
Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.
The movie that wowed audiences at Expo 70. The film combined scenic images including aerial cinematography with rousing classical music such as Sibelius' Karelia Suite. Using then ground-breaking technology, the film required three separate but synchronised 35mm film projectors which projected their images onto an extra-wide screen. In 2004/2005 Archives New Zealand commissioned a restoration at post production facility, Park Road Post. Hugh Macdonald, the original director, was involved in the restoration and Kit Rollings, the original sound mixer assisted with the updated soundtrack. The remastered film was released for sale on DVD in 2014.
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
Horatio Fisk sa po ranách osudu zmenil na starého frfľoša. Jeho syn Henslowe, pre ktorého otec nemá žiadny cit ani porozumie, sa ho snaží všemožne rozptýliť, žiaľ s pramalým úspechom. Starec sa totiž nikdy nespamätal zo straty druhého syna v búrskej vojne ani zo smrti manželky. Jedného dňa syn zavedie otca na hinduistickú prednášku o reinkarnácii a putovaní duší medzi telami, kde do hry vstupuje dekan Spanley so svojou slabosťou pre pravé tokajské víno, ktoré ho privádza do stavu vytrženia podobnému tomu, aké zažívali veštkyne v antických Tébach. Fisk junior zabezpečí dostatočné množstvo tohto zázračného moku a dekan si v extáze začne spomínať na obdobie, kedy žil ako niekto celkom iný, kedy žil ako pes! A vtedy sa začína nový príbeh, ktorý by mohol znovu spojiť otca a syna. Obaja vykročia na cestu, ktorá pomôže starcovi nájsť svoje srdce aj stratenú lásku k vlastnému synovi.
Pred viac než dvadsiatimi rokmi došlo k prvému kontaktu mimozemskej civilizácie s ľudstvom. Ľudia očakávali desivú bitku alebo významný technologický pokrok. Nedošlo ani k jednému. Mimozemšťania boli utečencami z vlastnej planéty. Stvorenia boli ubytované v núdzových domovoch v juhoafrickom Districte 9, zatiaľ, čo sa štáty sveta dohadovali, čo a ako ďalej. Teraz všetkým dochádza trpezlivosť.
The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
Hobit Bilbo Lazník opúšťa svoju pohodlnú noru a vydá sa na spoločnú púť s čarodejníkom Gandalfom a trinástimi trpaslíkmi, ktorých vedie legendárny bojovník Thorin Duboštín. Cieľom ich výpravy je získať späť stratené kráľovstvo trpaslíkov Erebor pod Osamelou horou, odkiaľ ich kedysi vyhnal drak Smaug, aby sa zmocnil ich bohatstva, zlata a diamantov, ktoré vydolovali v miestnej bani. Výprava je veľmi nebezpečná, pretože vedie cez územia, kde vládnu krvilačné kreatúry, zlí škriatkovia, chamtiví obri, ťažkopádni trollovia, diví Wargovia a príšerný Nekromant. Na brehu podzemného jazera Bilbo stretne Glgúňa - bytosť, ktorá mu navždy zmení život a vnukne mu ohromné životné odhodlanie. Okrem toho Bilbo získa aj vzácny Glgúňov zlatý prsteň, ktorý vládne výnimočnými vlastnosťami a spája osudy Stredozeme. Ale o tom Bilbo zatiaľ ešte nič netuší.
Pod vedením legendárneho bojovníka Thorina sa Hobit Bilbo s čarodejníkom Gandalfom a trinástimi trpaslíkmi vydali na dlhú a nebezpečnú výpravu s cieľom získať späť svoje stratené kráľovstvo trpaslíkov Erebor pod Osamelou horou, odkiaľ ich kedysi vyhnal drak Smaug, aby sa zmocnil ich bohatstva, zlata a diamantov, ktoré vydolovali v miestnej bani. Keď sa im v boji proti drakovi Smaugovi podarí dobyť späť svoju vlasť, nechtiac vypustia do sveta smrtiace sily. Aj keď Thorinov úpadok doženie Bilba k zúfalému rozhodnutiu, to najväčšie nebezpečenstvo ich ešte len čaká. Sauron, o ktorého krokoch okrem čarodejníka Gandalfa nikto netuší, tajne vyslal obrovskú armádu Škriatkov, aby zaútočila na Osamelú horu. Mračná rastúceho konfliktu sa hromadia zo všetkých strán a trpaslíci, elfovia aj ľudia sa musia rozhodnúť, či sa zjednotia a spoja svoje sily v boji proti zlu, alebo sa ním dajú poraziť a zničiť.
Pod vedením legendárneho bojovníka Thorina sa Hobit Bilbo s čarodejníkom Gandalfom a trinástimi trpaslíkmi vydali na dlhú a nebezpečnú púť. Cieľom ich výpravy je získať staré stratené kráľovstvo trpaslíkov Erebor, odkiaľ ich kedysi vyhnal drak Smaug. Výprava pokračuje smerom na východ a cestu zákerným lesom Severného Temnohvozdu jej križujú hrozivé obludy, ako je Beorn, meniaci kožu, či armáda obrovských pavúkov. Keď sa trpaslíkom podarí uniknúť zo zajatia nebezpečných lesných elfov, pokračujú k Jazernému mestu a nakoniec k samotnej Osamelej hore, kde musia čeliť najväčšiemu nebezpečenstvu svojho života - samotnému drakovi Smaugovi. Stretnutie s najstrašnejším netvorom preverí, či sú naozaj takí odvážni, ako si myslia a či ich priateľstvo vydrží. Súboj s netvorom napokon vyjaví, či len nepremárnili svoj životný čas a ich misia bude mať nejaký význam.
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.
Skupina filmárov sa vydáva do Tichomoria hľadať legendárny ostrov, na ktorom podľa povestí kedysi žilo gigantické monštrum menom King Kong. Výprava, v ktorej figuruje excentrický režisér Carl Denham (Jack Black), krásna herečka Ann Darrow (Naomi Wattsová) a scenárista Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), tajomný ostrov naozaj nájde. Monštrum, o ktorom chceli natočiť hraný dokument, stále žije, dokonca spoločne s radou ďalších prehistorických monštier. Výprava sa tak mení na zápas o holý život.
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
Životný príbeh Novozélanďana, ktorý strávil 40 rokov upravovaním svojej motorky Indian z roku 1920, aby s ňou prekonal svetový rýchlostný rekord na soľných jazerách v Utahu. Film V zajatí rýchlosti je inšpirujúci príbeh mimoriadneho muža, ktorý sa nikdy nevzdal svojho sna. Po 42 rokoch zdokonaľovania milovanej motorky sa Munro prakticky bez peňazí vydal na dobrodružnú cestu cez polovicu sveta, aby premenil svoj celoživotný cieľ na skutočnosť. Nikto neveril, že sa mu to podarí, ale nakoniec nielen vytvoril svetový rekord, ale stal sa aj motocyklovou legendou.
In the near future, police detective Richard Manning is investigating the most difficult case of his career – the seemingly impossible locked room murder of a wealthy property investor. The more Richard investigates, the more complex the case seems to become. He soon realizes his own future and survival depend on him solving everything – and quickly.
Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.
When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to release it to the world. Knowing that they make more money from chemotherapy drugs than the cure, the company does everything it can to stop her.
When a brother dies in a car accident, blame and bitterness take their toll as love and loyalty are tested amongst friends and family. Nevertheless, it is still possible to fall in love, to laugh again, to play soccer and to sing. But it takes courage to move on and unless you take the first step, you can't take the next.
Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside Alf's house, it explodes. It is soon apparent that persons unknown want them dead, but the police are either skeptical or in the pay of those responsible. They play hide and seek around New Zealand with the stalkers, all the while coping with car chases, plane crashes, bullets and explosions.
Siggy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is a teenage "bad girl" who lives and works in a red-light district of Auckland, New Zealand. Just like her fellow streetwalkers, Siggy constantly dreams of leaving "the life" behind. When she learns one day that her pimp is planning a big drug score, Siggy decides to seize the day -- and her future -- by grabbing the loot.
An emotionally traumatized stage magician has "escaped" into a fantasy world where he has real magical powers, but his career has taken him to performing at childrens' birthday parties. However, if he can find another stage assistant, his sleezy manager will give him another stage opportunity. Mostly he needs to find his way out of his mental state and that path is guided by some unexpected people he meets.
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. When Ed's leave is cancelled at the last minute he takes the dangerous decision to go absent without leave to be with Daisy on her journey home. As a deserter, Ed is hunted, captured and imprisoned. Life inside is bad enought without the worry of what is going on outside. The film is based upon a true story.
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The publisher's girlfriend Marie (who physically resembles Mansfield) and Murry become friends. Marie gradually learns that Murry not only profited greatly from his publication of Mansfield's writings, but that as her editor he sacrificed the real Mansfield to his own romantic dream, and even that he published her letters and journals against her expressed wishes.
As everyone in town gears up for the annual Hokitka Wild Foods Festival, Magik and Rose are locked in a poignant and funny off-beat tale of friendship and fertility. The result could end a good marriage, redefine the "perfect man", as well as discover what it means to be mother and daughter.
A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers that his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case.
The 2005 discovery of a cannonball, buried for 138 years in a paddock, throws Waimate into turmoil. It is all the Maori locals need to confirm their long-held belief that they were forcibly removed from their tribal lands, in a bloody 1866 battle. The hotly contested claim eventually ends up in the District Court and on the lens of cameraman Dave who captures all the arguments, frauds and forgeries of the townspeople, in a cinema verité mockumentary style.
In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success Belinda craves. Suzanne lives with Tony (Lovatt), an actor frustrated by his dead-end role in a soap, who is looking for a way out. Soon Belinda is caught up in a love triangle - which is just the experience she needs to inspire her first novel. This is about sex and love, success and failure, creativity and careers.
A touching story about the relationship of an American pilot named Ray Walker with a boy and his family on a ranch in New Zealand. Bill, the grandfather of the family, knows that only Ray can teach flying to his grandson.
Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life.
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats" (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip), questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the selectors at Saturday's rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Cooch's prize stag from the depths of Blackwater Station, home of the Murphys, their vicious dogs and deadly croco-pigs? All this and more will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen.
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
GOOD FOR NOTHING is an adventurous romp set in the sweeping Old West from Mike Wallis in his directorial debut. Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns and celebrating the Western genre with an interesting twist, the film follows an odd romance and the resulting emotional confusion of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings for a woman he has kidnapped.
Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.
When Arthur, self-proclaimed son of God, sets off on a mission to find the Queen of Heaven, his world changes.
Dougov šťastný a predvídateľný život sa rozpadne, keď ho jedného rána náhle opustí jeho priateľka Susan. Doug, oddaný fanúšik skupiny Queen, je zničený a nevie si predstaviť, čo bude robiť ďalej. Potom sa jeho život opäť obráti naruby, keď sa ujme zastrelenej kačice, ktorú nájde na streche svojho domu. Keď mu kamaráti nevedia poradiť, čo má robiť, a ich najlepším nápadom je zjesť ho, Doug sa prestane ľutovať a rozhodne sa Pierra, ako kačicu pomenuje, vyliečiť. Od odborníka na vtáky sa dozvie, že Pierre nie je kačica, ale rajská hus. Je to vták, ktorý je zvyknutý žiť v pároch a potrebuje niekoho, kto sa oňho postará. Doug sa ho rozhodne prijať. Veterinár nájde Pierrovi miesto na kačacej farme. Keď ho tam Doug vezme a vidí, v akých podmienkach žijú kačice s bláznivým majiteľom, vráti sa poň a rozhodne sa ho ponechať. Všade ho berie so sebou...
Filmová adaptácia spisovateľky Alici Seboldovej zobrazuje príbeh Susie Salmonovej, ktorá ma štrnásť rokov. Susie bola znásilnená, zavraždená a vrah rozrezal jej telo na kusy. Susie sa dostane do neba, ktoré má podobu strednej školy. Odtiaľ má možnosť sledovať život svojej rodiny, ale aj osud vraha, ktorý ju pripravil o život a sleduje aj jeho nový plán s úmyslom vraždy.
It is the 1960s. Two Maori families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, make a living shearing sheep on the east coast of New Zealand. The two clans, who are bitter enemies, face each other as rivals at the annual sheep shearing competitions. Simeon is a 14-year-old scion of the Mahana clan. A courageous schoolboy, he rebels against his authoritarian grandfather Tamihana and his traditional ways of thinking and begins to unravel the reasons for the long-standing feud between the two families. Before long, the hierarchies and established structures of the community are in disarray because Tamihana, who is as stubborn as he is proud, is not prepared to acquiesce and pursue new paths. The story is adapted from Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
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