Media Coverage
There's been a lot of media coverage lately on the Tangiwai feature, so here is a collection of some of the pieces.
Jim Mora: Afternoons - Radio New Zealand
Click here to listen to the week's TV Review
Dominion Post
Powerful retelling of a tragedy
LINDA BURGESS
REVIEW: It was hard to watch last night's Tangiwai, hard to look at the luminously gorgeous Rose McIver playing 19-year- old Nerissa Love, without ignoring the voice in the back of the brain that kept reminding me that soon she would be dead.
Read more here.
LINDA BURGESS
REVIEW: It was hard to watch last night's Tangiwai, hard to look at the luminously gorgeous Rose McIver playing 19-year- old Nerissa Love, without ignoring the voice in the back of the brain that kept reminding me that soon she would be dead.
Read more here.
Sunday Star Times: TV Section
Tangiwai - both tragedy and love story
STEPHANIE HOLMES
Hollywood experience and personal pain help television actors recreate a dark day for New Zealand and a famous cricket test, writes Stephanie Holmes.
In a Wellington churchyard on a sunny morning, Rose McIver is intently watching herself on screen. She has just been filming an emotional scene for telefeature Tangiwai and, as the footage rolls, her face betrays no trace of approval or disapproval for her performance. Co-star Ryan O'Kane wanders among the gravestones, pausing every now and then to read an inscription or to gaze into the distance.Click here to read more.
STEPHANIE HOLMES
Hollywood experience and personal pain help television actors recreate a dark day for New Zealand and a famous cricket test, writes Stephanie Holmes.
In a Wellington churchyard on a sunny morning, Rose McIver is intently watching herself on screen. She has just been filming an emotional scene for telefeature Tangiwai and, as the footage rolls, her face betrays no trace of approval or disapproval for her performance. Co-star Ryan O'Kane wanders among the gravestones, pausing every now and then to read an inscription or to gaze into the distance.Click here to read more.
Good Morning TVNZ
Click here to watch the interview with Rose McIver on the Good Morning show.
NZ Herald Online
TV Pick of the Week: Tangiwai
Playing in this week's Sunday Theatre slot, Tangiwai tells the story of just one of the victims of the train crash that claimed 151 lives on Christmas Eve 1953
Read the rest of the article here.
Playing in this week's Sunday Theatre slot, Tangiwai tells the story of just one of the victims of the train crash that claimed 151 lives on Christmas Eve 1953
Read the rest of the article here.
New Zealand Listener
The full article is available in the issue of the Listener magazine, though there is also a brief note on their website here.
Dominion Post
Weta creates train for Tangiwai film
Finely detailed replica of original locomotive
BRONWYN TORRIE
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Finely detailed replica of original locomotive
BRONWYN TORRIE
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Marcus Lush on RadioLive
Click here to listen to Marcus chat with Richard Boock on the sporting elements to the story.
Kathryn Ryan Nine to Noon: Radio New Zealand
Click below to listen to her interview with Bob Blair
Newstalk ZB
Click here to listen to Newstalk ZB and the sporting element to the story.
NZ Herald Weekend TimeOut Magazine
TV Guide
