At The Movies for Wednesday 15 December 2021

AT THE MOVIES #862     GETTING BACK

 

Simon Morris looks back in 2021, a year where much of the time we relied on streaming services for our movie hit. It saw the return of the big blockbusters, an Academy Awards ceremony dominated by diversity, and a busy year of New Zealand made films and TV.

 

Get Back showed what Sir Peter Jackson had done during all that lockdown – an exhaustive eight-hour recut of the Beatles’ documentary Let it be that revived a new dose of Beatlemania!

 

 

 

The power of the dog – Dame Jane Campion’s western, shot in Central Otago, is already getting a strong Oscar buzz, particularly for star Benedict Cumberbatch.

 

 

Meanwhile New Zealand-produced films performed strongly too – titles like Cousins, The justice of Bunny King, Juniper and Coming home in the dark.