Rubbing shoulders with Kiwi cinematic history

Hidden inside one of the New Zealand International Film Festival’s smallest venues is a secret chamber filled with the faded grandeur of cinema’s glory days. Built in 1930, Masterton’s Regent 3 Cinemas is one of the stalwarts on the festival’s provincial circuit, taking part in its various incarnations for the past 38 years – making it one of the longest-running regional venues, festival director Bill Gosden said.

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Robin Williams and the curse of the clown

There is a common belief that comedians are funny to escape their sadness; that often, behind the jokes, pratfalls and silly voices, there hides a depressed, tortured clown, squeezing laughs from audiences in an attempt to evade crippling melancholia. This stereotype, which may have its roots in commedia dell’arte’s tear-faced Pierrot, is not, of course, true of every comic

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