The Auckland International Film Festival kicks off tonight with the New Zealand Premiere of Jane Campion's Bright Star, based on the romance between poet John Keates and Fanny Brawne.
Several of the films featured at the Festival are based on novels or short stories. And of course there are also those, such as Bright Star and Coco Before Chanel, based on real lives, which you can read up on at the library. So here is your quick ready reference of the Auckland Film Festival and the Rodney Library.
Bright Star by Jane Campion - Opening Night. You can find both the biography and a selection of his works in the library by doing a keyword search in our catalogue John Keats. To find out more about Jane Campion and her works, do the same for her. There is a new biography on the way so put your name down for that now.
An Education : Lynn Barber is one of the special presentations at the Festival and tells the story of a 16 year old's youth in 1960's London. This memoir is also on order and should be on the shelves soon.
If you enjoy Coco Before Chanel at the Festival, follow it up by doing some reading on this remarkable woman and her world at the library by doing a keyword search for her name.
Shooting Balibo tells the tale of the making of the movie showing on Sunday 26 July. New Zealand Gary Cunningham was one of the Balibo Five who were killed, not in crossfire in East Timor, but executed by Indonesian invaders.
Other films of novels you can find in Rodney Libraries include:
Disgrace - J M Coetzee
Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cook
The Baader-Meinhoft Complex - Stefan Aust
Coraline (in 3D) - Neil Gaiman
Cheri - Collette
If you do get along to see any of the festival films, enjoy! Most of the Rodney Libraries still have a few Festival programmes left or you can find out more on the Festival Website
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