Bill Gosden is the director of the 2011 New Zealand International Film Festival, which began last night in Auckland with Florian Habicht’s New York-set film, Love Story (Check the official NZFF site for dates that the festival will be in your neck of the woods). We asked Bill a couple of quick questions…
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FLICKS: Hello from Flicks! How are you and what have you been up to today?
GOSDEN: I’m feeling fine, thank you. Today I inspected the work underway to refurbish the Regent Theatre in Dunedin , left my imprint backstage in wet concrete (which I subsequently heard will be carpeted) and posed, perched nonchalantly atop a pallet of Dunedin’s Film Festival brochures, for the Otago Daily Times.
FLICKS: Describe your most memorable cinema experience?
How about a bad one? Being berated for my abominable taste in documentaries by Australian documentary filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke in front of a full house at the Paramount, Wellington. There has never been a more mesmerized crowd at a Festival Q+A.
FLICKS: What is your favourite film scene?
Recently: the amazing drama that unfolds in a single shot featuring a truck, some goats, a procession and a dog in Le quattro volte.
FLICKS: What is the last great film you saw?
Las Acacias, a great little film.
FLICKS: What are your two picks for the 2011 New Zealand International Film Festival?
Hey! I picked them all – give or take a couple of dozen other masterpieces selected by Ant and Sandra.
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