Looking for an ‘on this day’ post I was delighted to find a film to recommend that is actually available – at least in New Zealand and Australia.
I posted this review of Life in Movement on 16 October 2012:
In 2007, just before taking up her surprise appointment as the new director of the Sydney Dance Company, Tanja Liedtke was hit by an early morning garbage truck and died in hospital. She was only 29. Life in Movement – a brilliant documentary by Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason – follows her colleagues over the next couple of years as they take her work on one final tour around the world and at the same time try and make sense of their loss. Well chosen extracts from Liedtke’s two main choreographic works show an artist trying understand herself through her work and it’s fascinating to see how that work is still interrogating – and explaining – her today.
Also in that Capital Times column: The Secret World of Arrietty (Studio Ghibli’s adaptation of The Borrowers); Liam Neeson in Taken 2; Walter Salles adapts Kerouac’s On the Road; the much more well-known documentary, Searching for Sugar Man; Coasta Botes’ documentary, The Last Dogs of Winter; and the “sub-literary nonsense” of The Words starring Bradley Cooper.
Where to watch Life in Movement
Aotearoa & Australia: Streaming on DocPlay
Rest of the world: Currently unavailable