Architecture | Britannica
1 April 2001
Brendan MacFarlane, Kiwi half of design duo Jakob and MacFarlane continues to dazzle the Parisian architecture scene: “The only work of architecture raising Parisians’ eyebrows was Jakob and MacFarlane’s “blobby” rooftop restaurant, crowning the…
Film & TV | Telegraph (The)
31 March 2001
Russell Crowe and Crouching Tiger herald a takeover of Hollywood by the rest of the world.
Film & TV | Age (The)
31 March 2001
Russell’s main rival for the little naked gold man was “Tom Hanks, who wears very little for much of Castaway. To the Academy this shameless overexposure smacked of desperation, an all-shorts-off attempt to counter…
Music | Independent (The)
31 March 2001
Playing with Neil Finn: “It may well be hair-raising, disastrous, funny or sublime, but it will certainly be an adventure…” Finn on the Auckland all-star band: “The idea is that over the course of…
Writers | Age (The)
31 March 2001
“Very different and very daring” – Auckland University Professor Albert Wendt. “For a New Zealander to win an Australian prize seems absolutely incredible,” says Knox. “The only time we can ever get…
Visual Arts | International Herald Tribune
30 March 2001
Thematic arrangement, fresh technology and festival atmosphere put Te Papa at the cutting edge of history.
Film & TV | Times (The)
30 March 2001
An examination post-golden Gladiator coverage on both sides of the Tasman.
Music | Dotmusic.com
28 March 2001
Neil Finn speaks about his new-found love of the internet and his brilliant new album, One Nil.
Film & TV | Ananova
28 March 2001
“No, no leave him alone, don’t hurt him,” yelled Joy Wemyss, Crowe family matriarch at a private screening in Auckland. Also, Audrey Crowe touched by mention of her husband.
Film & TV | Australian (The)
28 March 2001
“From the beginning he was destined to be a star,” says Martin Bedford, Russell Crowe’s agent of 17 years.
Music | Ha'aretz
27 March 2001
Henry Wong-Doe demonstrates his “stylistic flexibility” at the 10th Arthur Rubenstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv.
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Music | Billboard
27 March 2001
Kiwi boys Zed gig with Bon Jovi in Melbourne.
Film & TV | BBC News | Hollywood
26 March 2001
Winning the world from the edge, Russell Crowe walks away with Hollywood’s biggest award. It was the day the boy from the west Auckland suburbs achieved the dream that once seemed “kind of ludicrous…
Writers | Boston Globe
24 March 2001
Ngaio Marsh is among the few mystery writers whose houses merit preservation as “literary shrines”.
Music | Sunday Times
24 March 2001
“Life without a band suits Neil Finn – his second solo album is phenomenal”
Film & TV | Washington Post
23 March 2001
“The gorgeous landscapes of New Zealand provide the backdrop for this peculiarity, which is like nothing else that’s played in months”
Film & TV | Hoovers
22 March 2001
The Price of Milk is nothing at promotional showings of the New Zealand movie with a “cult-like” following.
Music | Age (The)
22 March 2001
King Kapisi spins the crowd: “Taking the crowd through a full turntable tutorial, including “the crab” and other techniques, Kapisi has them in the palm of his hand”.
Music | Los Angeles Times
21 March 2001
“Pragmatic and visionary” New Zealander Grant Cooper scores a sugar plumb of a job, conducting New York’s Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.
Film & TV | Australian (The)
20 March 2001
Will it be “Crowe, Russell Crowe” next time 007 hits the big screen? “To play Bond, you need a man who has great screen presence and is believable in the part. Looking at him,…
Music | Yahoo! News
20 March 2001
Despite facing the sixth anniversary of the day Neil Finn saved his life by pulling him from a Piha rip, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder is preparing to return to New Zealand for the…
Film & TV | Honolulu Star-Bulletin
19 March 2001
Price of Milk plays at the Hawaii International Film Festival.
Film & TV | Miami Herald
19 March 2001
Xena meets her doom in the finale of the wrapped series that turned Lucy Lawless stellar.
Film & TV | Guardian (The)
18 March 2001
The greatest winners of all time. For best actress: Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Simone Signoret and Holly Hunter in The Piano.
Music | Philippine Star
15 March 2001
German-based lolli-pop group ATC, including Kiwi member Joe, hit Manila with their Europop/R&B blend.
Music | Age (The)
15 March 2001
Neil Finn, international star and “nice guy” of New Zealand pop, has invited a few friends to perform his “unmistakable” sound in Auckland.
Music | MTV
15 March 2001
“The concept for these shows is to invite friends whose music I admire to collaborate with me in presenting a week-long musical extravaganza which I optimistically expect to be a blast.”
Film & TV | Miami Herald
15 March 2001
Russell Crowe laughs off kidnap threat: “Quite frankly, if they had to spend that much time in a small room with me… one of them might end up saying, ‘Look, pass the hat around,…
Film & TV | CNN News
15 March 2001
Sam Neill transmits tension in The Dish, the story of how Neill Armstrong came to be broadcast from a giant dish in the middle of the Australian desert.
Film & TV | Jerusalem Post
14 March 2001
The Piano, Jane Campion’s “hard to ignore” and “genuinely strange” masterpiece is the star in Jerusalem’s Festival of piano-films – celebrating the filmic attraction of tormented pianists.
Music | Age (The)
13 March 2001
The yodeling Topp Twins rock 25th Port Fairy Folk Festival in Melbourne.
Music | Times (The)
13 March 2001
New Zealand soprano soloist Rebecca Ryan sings world premier of re-discovered Handel work.
Writers | Times (The)
12 March 2001
The 13 of March is the birthday of novelist, Sir Hugh Walpole, born in Auckland in 1884.
Music | CD Now
12 March 2001
Jeremy Eade, lead singer of New Zealand peppy-punkers Garageland, tours the US doing acoustic from latest release Do What You Want.
Music | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
11 March 2001
One Nil is the result of a musician “looking for collaborative work, where someone else is bringing something to the table”, but it’s still vintage Finn: still “rooted in the form and structure of…
Writers | Guardian (The)
10 March 2001
UK Poet Charles Boyle’s The Age of Cardboard and String features “a poet who leads a double life in England and New Zealand”.
Film & TV | National Post
9 March 2001
“Never doubt you can accomplish the task given to you,” says Canadian film-maker Sean Buckley. “I had barely been on a horse before, but there I was in New Zealand, needing a job. I…
Media | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
3 March 2001
Denis Dutton’s “admirable venture,” Cybereditions, allows publications to be constantly updated, exploiting the interactivity and flexibility of the net to deliver superior content.
Film & TV | Guardian (The) | New Statesman
3 March 2001
Controversy and acclaim for edge-director Roger Donaldson’s nuke-spook Kennedy paean 13 Days.“Yet, despite these difficulties, the film works and ought to be essential viewing for those too young to have been around in October 1962,…
Film & TV | Scotsman (The)
3 March 2001
Russell: Charismatic, attractive and talented, but also fearless, said Sharon Stone years back. He proves her right on the screen and in the jungles of Ecuador.
Music | Miami Herald
2 March 2001
“Barton’s encore – her own variations on the New Zealand national anthem, inspired by a tour of that country made at the invitation of James Judd – was full of devilish pyrotechnics, skittery bowings…
Film & TV | Age (The)
1 March 2001
More stories from across the globe: “this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings” quotes The Advertiser; Crowe “shocked and emotional” in the LA Times; “I was thinking this is one of those bad…
Film & TV | Oyster Magazine
1 March 2001
NYNZer Brendan Donovan scores Best Cinematography award for his short film Here at the Angelciti Film Festival LA and his star Lee Majors wins Best Actor at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. Majors…
Film & TV | BBC News | Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts
27 February 2001
Crowe-band Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts gig Milan for Children in Crisis fund-raiser.
Film & TV | BBC News
23 February 2001
Future films Flora Plum and John Nash biopic will “stretch Crowe to show the extent of his capability and range”.
Music | Dotmusic.com | Guardian (The)
22 February 2001
Neil Finn tours the UK and Ireland later this year in support of his album One Nil. His current mini-tour is rarking it up in London: “This one-off gig felt like a party where…
Music | Mi2n
21 February 2001
Auckland indie-poppers Garageland team with UK distributors foodchainrecords to release Do What You Want Stateside.
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Visual Arts | Scotsman (The)
20 February 2001
The new Museum of Scotland launches itself with Altogether a Delightful Country, a display focusing on immigrant Scots in Otago.
Film & TV | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
20 February 2001
New Zealander Kerry Fox wins Silver Bear (best actress) at the Berlin Film Festival for her “searing and explicit” performance in Intimacy, winner of the Golden Bear for best film. Fox was unable to…
Film & TV | Empire Magazine
20 February 2001
‘I’ve never met or worked with a director with a more comprehensive artillery of qualities for a big project like this than Peter Jackson. Someone should give him a medal pretty damn quickly” -…
Writers | International Herald Tribune
18 February 2001
Cultural export poet Andrew Johnston pushes poetry on the web.
Film & TV | Sunday Times
18 February 2001
Gladiator, filmed in Morocco, Malta and the UK, directed by a Brit, scored by a German and “sexed up by the hottest New Zealander on the planet” is a new breed of block-buster, a…
Film & TV | Independent (The)
16 February 2001
Intimacy is a smouldering film about a man who is living in a basement in south London who has a sex affair with a woman at his place every Wednesday afternoon. They don’t talk,…
Film & TV | IndieWIRE
15 February 2001
Director Harry Sinclair explains the magic behind The Price of Milk: “We put a window frame on a dolly and sat Danielle Coramck and the camera on the dolly. And they were moving along Karl…
Film & TV | Individual.com
14 February 2001
Russell Crowe named “Male Star of the Year” at ShoWest 2001, the largest motion picture industry convention.
Film & TV | CNN News
13 February 2001
“What we do in life/echoes in eternity.” Russell “Maximus” Crowe gets a second Best Actor nomination (last year was for The Insider), continuing a fine run of Wellington actors and filmmakers who have been…