It’s a question to ponder, perhaps, as you finish your ice-cream, wait for the lights to go down and the curtain to come up: in the 50-year-plus history of the New Zealand International Film Festival and its forerunners, which directors – foreign and domestic – have had the most films?
It springs to mind when looking through the programme for this year’s festival, which spreads across the country in July. It’s full of works by arthouse perennials such as Wim Wenders (who has two this year: Japan-set drama and artist documentary ), the king of, this year’s closing-night film) and American stylist Todd Haynes (, starring Julianne Moore as the survivor of a tabloid scandal, and Natalie Portman as the actress about to play her in a movie).
