If the experience of watching Green Room feels like getting knocked around the world's nastiest mosh pit, that's entirely by design.

Jim Jarmusch has two movies in this year's festival including one about the band which changed his life and gave the world Iggy Pop.

Paul Dano likes a good fart joke. Which is lucky, because his new film is full of them.

Sporting knee-high boots, super-long eyelashes and with her blond hair stacked high, Odessa Young is hardly your average 18-year-old.

The world premiere of Poi E: The Story of Our Song opened the New Zealand International Festival at the Civic last night to a sell-out

Tonight's opening movie of the New Zealand International Film Festival captures a magical moment in our pop culture.

An Australian classification ruling could prevent younger Kiwi movie-goers from watching a documentary encouraging women to accept their bodies.

Tearepa Kahi's documentary Poi E: The Story of Our Song debuts at the NZ International Film Festival this month in time for Matariki, the Maori New Year.

COMMENT: Once again, with heartening reliability, Bill Gosden and the NZIFF gang have delivered a sumptuous variety of pleasures in the line-up for this year's International Film Festival.

The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced five of the music-themed movies in the programme for the July event.

The countdown to the 2016 New Zealand International Film Festival has begun with the announcement of the first five films in its programme.

Isabella Rossellini is a film-maker and actress.

Letters home give a revealing insight into Janis Joplin, a complicated woman.

Has Michael Moore stopped being American cinema's great agitator? He talks about his latest doco Where to Invade Next?

The most talked-about movie at the film festival, Amy hits cinemas this week. Kathryn Bromwich talks to the manager who tried to 'make her go to rehab', and others whose lives were touched by the doomed soul singer.

Wondering what to see at the International Film Festival? Here are our latest reviews from the Auckland leg of the nationwide event.

A baffled Joaquin Phoenix shines in Inherent Vice.

Musician Lawrence Arabia may have a classic movie-ish name but now he's putting his to a soundtrack for a vintage flick to be performed live at this year's film festival.

In Grandma, Lily Tomlin, takes a rare lead film role as a foul-mouthed hippy lesbian poet and yes, grandmother.

You wait for another Viggo Mortensen arthouse Western to come along and what do you know? Two show up at once.

Dinner and a movie is the best way to spend a wintery evening during the film festval, writes Dionne Christian.

Dominic Corry talks to actor Michael Ironside about starring in Kiwi film, Turbo Kid.

Meet the cast of 90s punk/hip-hop caper comedy Dope.

Director of new film on Amy Winehouse says: "Everyone thought they knew everything about her."

The New Zealand International Film Festival is upon us. Dominic Corry sifts out some of the best movies to see.

The writer and director of the brilliant AI film, Ex Machina, talks to Michael O'Sullivan.

The festival's opening night film stars some familiar faces but it's remarkably original writes Helen Barlow.

Jason Lei Howden's blood-soaked horror movie Deathgasm will make its NZ debut at the festival. The first time director chats to Chris Schulz about filming gore on the fly.

Peter Calder examines the local docos delving deep into Maori stories.