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RNZ News
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Regional Wrap: Warkworth with local Ursula Christel
culture arts 1:50 pm today Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa for our Regional Wrap. This week Culture 101 heads 45-minutes north of Auckland to Warkworth. It's located at the head of the Mahurangi Harbour with Matakana, Goat Island and Tawharanui regional park and beach nearby. The local museum features speakers each month telling stories of pioneering families. A permanent light installation in the forest launched last year before Matariki and during the winter a sound piece set up by artists from Ngati Manuhiri tells the Maori creation story along with music. The community also has a pipe band, brass band and an inclusive theatre group. Art historian, artist and museum volunteer Ursula Christel joins Culture 101 .
RNZ News
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Taking improv competitions into the workplace
culture arts 39 minutes ago For most people, the concept of getting up on stage for improvisation is the stuff of nightmares, let alone doing it at work with your colleagues. But Covert Theatre's founder and artistic director Wade Jackson has been making it his mission to take the fear out of improv and focus on the connection. He started doing improv at university in the '90s and has been taking theatre into corporate spaces for 32 years. Five years ago, despite being in the height of the pandemic, he started Office Comedy Clash; an inter-office improv competition. Wade is also an author, speaker and high performance coach and speaks to Culture 101 about taking theatre into workplaces, encouraging senior leaders and executives to play and not be afraid to show their humanity.
RNZ News
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Italian Film Festival: 10 years of bringing Italy to Aotearoa
media culture about 1 hour ago It's been 10 years of the Italian Film Festival in Aotearoa and what started out as a way for Paolo Rotondo to showcase and preserve his culture here - is now a 9-month celebration across the country from April to January each year. Since 2015, more than 200 films have been shown and this year's programme is promising a curated selection of gripping dramas, heartwarming comedies and diversity. There will also be iconic films including The Talented Mr Ripley and the English Patient. If that's not enough to convince prospective movie-goers, there will be two new gelato flavours on offer during the festival to celebrate a decade of Italian cinema in New Zealand; combining what the Italians love - food, craft and passion. Filmmaker, actor and artistic director Paolo Rotondo speaks to Culture 101 about what else is in store for this year's festival. Tags: arts culture media Italy arts and culture cinema food
RNZ News
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Fast Favourties with comedian Josh Thomson
media arts 38 minutes ago Josh Thomson has been in Wellington with his comedy festival show Old Mate which travels to Tamaki Makaurau this coming week. In his new set, he's coming to grips with his mortality, being a middle-aged parent and realising he's no longer the cool young buck he thought he'd always be. The comedian and actor has appeared across both New Zealand and international films and television including Gary of the Pacific, Wellington Paranormal, The Office - Australia, 7 Days, The Project NZ and won awards for his show webseries Subject Dad. He joins Culture 101 for Fast Favourites.
Otago Daily Times
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
The search for Orson Welles' missing masterpiece
In 1942 Orson Welles was the biggest name in Hollywood. His masterpiece Citizen Kane came out in 1941, and he had an unheard-of deal with studio RKO giving him final cut creative control. Citizen Kane however was not a great commercial success, and for his next project The Magnificent Ambersons , RKO clipped Welles' creative wings, eventually taking his cut and "mutilating it," Josh Grossberg told RNZ's Culture 101 . The studio took his cut and removed almost an hour of footage, including changing and re-shooting the ending. Welles' original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons is considered one of the great lost films, and it's long been thought a copy may still exist. Grossberg documents his quest to find it in a new documentary, The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons . Welles was in Brazil working on a government film project when the RKO got its hands on his cut, and audience screenings did not go well, Grossberg said. "Welles was out of the loop at this point, and try as he might, cabling editing suggestions left and right, those were ignored, and RKO cut the footage down and held another test screening. "And subsequent to that, they released the film in an 88-minute form. They completely re-shot the ending and what was considered by those who saw the original version to be a masterpiece that even excelled the level of artistry in Citizen Kane , ended up being essentially mutilated." RKO ordered Welles' print be destroyed but there are no first-hand accounts of that happening, he said. "There's no tangible evidence, no accounts that someone saw the actual print being destroyed. There was documentation that RKO ordered the print destroyed, but there is no official confirmation that it actually was destroyed. "So, this print's essentially missing. It's gone into the ether. And my thought was, well, if we can find it in the world, in the words of the great, late director William Friedkin, it would be like finding the holy grail of cinema." The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons funded by Turner Classic Movies follows Grossberg's travels around the globe searching to for the 43 minutes that the studio hacked from Welles' original. The journey ends in Brazil where Welles' had been working at the time. "I think this is a story that needs to be told. People need to understand what the original version of Ambersons entailed, because the studio did Orson Welles a great disservice in cutting it," he said. The documentary is more broadly about the preservation of cinematic cultural heritage, he said. "So many of our films are being lost to time. So, I think it's important to emphasise how do we save our cultural heritage in cinema." As to whether he finds the missing print, wait and see, he said. "Will I find the print? Will they turn up any evidence or any footage or any stills? And we're going to answer that question in the documentary. "I can't talk about that now, but you're definitely going to have some answers as to the fate of the print."
