Carmen Gray

Carmen Gray is a freelance journalist, critic and film programmer from New Zealand who is also a British citizen, and now lives in Berlin. Her work mainly focuses on the cinema and politics of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Balkans.

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How Sam Neill’s 1990s documentary Cinema of Unease reckoned with New Zealand’s film history

Beloved for his roles in films from Dead Calm to Jurassic Park, Sam Neill – who has died aged 78 – was a vital figure in New Zealand cinema who, in 1995, made a documentary for the BFI offering thoughtful reflections on the unease and troubled political history permeating his nation’s filmmaking.

By Carmen Gray

How Sam Neill’s 1990s documentary Cinema of Unease reckoned with New Zealand’s film history
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