2006 Telecom New Zealand International Film Festival Coverage

The Telecom New Zealand International Film Festival is over in Auckland and Wellington but is still travelling around New Zealand. Karate Party reviewed films during the Wellington run. For more information visit the Film Festival Home Page

• 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) - ***
• 13 (Tzameti) (2005) - ****
• American Cannibal: The Road to Reality (2006) - **
• Ballets russes (2005) - ***1/2
• Battle in Heaven (2005) - ****1/2
• Bittersweet Life, A (2005) - ****
• Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, The (2005) - ***
• Brick (2005) - ****
• Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005) - ***
• Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The (2005) - *****
• Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) - ****
• Fearless (2006) - ****1/2
• Hard Candy (2005) - ***
• His Big White Self (2006) - ****
• How Much Do You Love Me? (2005) - ***
• Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) - ****
• Keane (2004) - ****
• Last Train to Freo (2006) - ****
• Lonesome Jim (2005) - **1/2
• Mind Game (2004) - ****
• New World, The (2005) - *****
  
• One Day in People's Poland (2006) - ***
• Police Beat (2005) - ****
• Princess (2006) - ***
• Pulse (2001) - **1/2
• Requiem (2006) - ****
• Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, The (2006) - **
• Scanner Darkly, A (2006) - ****
  
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) - ****1/2
• Thank You for Smoking (2005) - ****1/2
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) - ****
• Vampires Vs Sheep Man (2006): What We Do in the Shadows... - ***;  Sheep Man - **1/2