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Best films and television of the year and the devastation of cultural life As the year ends, it is not possible to discuss any aspect of artistic life, or life in general, in 2020 without central reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, which the various ruling elites have permitted to ravage the world’s population. In late March, we noted that “the global health and economic calamity” was without precedent. “Whatever the outcome in the short term,” we wrote, “social life and consciousness will never return to their previous states. A Rubicon has been crossed. The existing order, in th...

REVIEW: I was lucky enough to see Anne Frank: Parallel Stories (now streaming on TVNZ Ondemand) late last year. I remember walking in to the screening wondering what more could possibly be said about the life and death of Anne, but left feeling engaged and convinced of the urgency of telling her story again. If Anne Frank had lived, she would have turned 90 last year. Which is as good a reason as any to make a film that introduces Anne to a new generation. But, Anne Frank died, probably of typhoid, in a German concentration camp in 1945. The Frank family were Jewish. They went into hidin...