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Howard Davis
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Educated at Cambridge and UCLA; worked on several major Hollywood feature films and as a Kundalini Yoga instructor in Los Angeles; currently enjoying life in Wellington.
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Review: The Building Blocks of 'Spotlight'
Friday, 5 February 2016, 12:21 pm | Howard Davis
'Spotlight' is a deeply disturbing film for at least three reasons. Not only does it reveal the systemic institutional corruption of the Boston Archdiocese in particular and the Catholic Church in general. It also shows how the process of investigative ... More >>
Documenting Dissent
Thursday, 21 January 2016, 12:19 pm | Howard Davis
Documenting Dissent Review by Howard Davis From time to time, a young photographer emerges whose choice of content and subject matter distinguishes their work from the plethora of amateur iPhone, Photoshop, and Instagram apps. This is indisputably ... More >>
The Revenant
Thursday, 14 January 2016, 11:56 am | Howard Davis
A revenant is someone who has returned from the dead. With a running time of 2 hrs and 36 minutes, audiences for Alejandro Inaritu's latest movie might well feel the same way. It's a chilling ordeal to undergo - but nothing compared to what the cast ... More >>
Tim Burton Finally Grows up
Thursday, 17 December 2015, 2:16 pm | Howard Davis
It took eleven years from development to completion and now Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' has finally reached Antipodean screens. It's a heart-warming tale of the artist Margaret Keane's personal odyssey from dependency to empowerment. That she happened to become ... More >>
Ray Henwood: Wales and Aotearoa meet on Stage
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 3:16 pm | Howard Davis
The son of a Welsh publican, Henwood was born in Swansea in 1937. He was in his twenties when he saw an ad in The Times Educational Supplement for a science and mathematics teacher at Mana College in Porirua and what was originally intended as ... More >>
Houses and Halls
Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 12:25 pm | Howard Davis
Houses and Halls Howard Davis New Zealand is renowned for the natural beauty of its countryside, but three events I was fortunate to attend last weekend underscored that its built environment also deserves to be treasured. More >>
'Black Bird': Lonnie Hutchinson at the Dowse
Monday, 9 November 2015, 11:00 am | Howard Davis
'Black Bird: Lonnie Hutchinson 1997-2013: A Survey' is the first major retrospective of Lonnie Hutchinson's rich and varied practice over seventeen years. Born in 1963, Hutchinson received a Diploma in Textile Printing from AIT in 1992 and a Bachelor ... More >>
Living Traditions of Ngatu and Moko
Monday, 2 November 2015, 11:36 am | Howard Davis
Two stunning displays of indigenous art by Dame Robin White and Marti Friedlander are masterfully juxtaposed at Masterton's Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. White's enormous Nagatu (painted tapa) were first unveiled at Auckland's Two Rooms ... More >>
Fat Freddy’s Drop – Bays
Monday, 19 October 2015, 9:08 am | Howard Davis
New Zealand’s self-styled "seven-headed soul monster," Fat Freddy’s Drop have come a long way from their humble origins in the 90s, as a group of local lads jamming together. They now regularly play sold-out shows across Europe and hold ... More >>
Gifted: The Entangled Lives of Frank Sargeson & Janet Frame
Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 9:02 am | Howard Davis
The Irish author Frank O'Connor has suggested that short stories often originate from "an attitude of mind that is attracted by submerged population groups." It's not difficult to identify short stories by New Zealand writers which have surfaced ... More >>
Radioactive Sundays: Never Overcooked, Rarely Underdone
Monday, 5 October 2015, 3:21 pm | Howard Davis
Tucked away in a pocket-sized studio on Guzhnee St., Radioactive FM transmits a steady stream of adventurous, alternative, and always intriguing sounds. Like all cultural institutions in Wellington, it's sadly underfunded, but compensates for ... More >>
On Shoestrings and Phones: Rossellini and Contemporary Film
Monday, 21 September 2015, 3:15 pm | Howard Davis
Roberto Rossellini's Neo-Realist Rome, Open City provides some fascinating technical parallels to Tangerine an equally revolutionary Independent movie made exactly sixty years later. Both pictures share a gritty vigorous spirit that should encourage novice ... More >>
Fiona Pardington's A Beautiful Hesitation
Friday, 18 September 2015, 1:16 pm | Howard Davis
An aroma of death and decay perfumes this extraordinary survey of Fiona Pardington's work with faint forensic scents of camphor and formaldehyde. Eight large-format still-lifes dominate the main room, while other works reveal progressive developments in style ... More >>
