Reviews & Previews
Helene Wong - New Zealand Listener
September, 2008
In The Hollow Men, Alister Barry (Someone Else's Country, In a Land of Plenty, A Civilised Society) continues his steadfast chronicling of the big picture of contemporary New Zealand politics.
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Nina Fowler - The Lumiére Reader
27 July, 2008
One part comedy, two parts horror as Nicky Hager's controversial expose takes to the big screen.
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The Hollow Men film being well received
24 July, 2008
TV3 interview with Alister Barry and Nicky Hager
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Graeme Tuckett - Dominion Post
22 July, 2008
The Hollow Men (G) Rated: Four Stars
Alister Barry is one of the under-sung heroes of the New Zealand film world. In a lot of countries, the independent director of Someone Else's Country, In a Land of Plenty and A Civilised Society would be regarded as something of a hero, and maybe have a library or three named after him.
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Tom Cardy - Dominion Post
21 July, 2008
Hollow Men doco a winner at film fest
A sold-out premiere for The Hollow Men at the Wellington Film Festival has buoyed hopes that the documentary will get a general release this year.
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Gordon Campell
For nearly a year, Alister Barry had been working on a film about the spin doctoring techniques used by the New Right during the 2005 election campaign, and was using Someone Else's Country II as his rough working title. Then, the news broke that investigative journalist Nicky Hager had been working on virtually the same topic, in a book called The Hollow Men. Ever since, Hager has provided creative input and a critique of Barry's project.
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Bill Gosden
The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country)
new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008.
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Hollow Men to premiere next month
20 June, 2008
The Hollow Men was a book, then a play and now its a film. Maggie Tait of NZPA talks the book's author, the film's maker and the reluctant star Don Brash.
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The Unionist
19 June, 2008
Nicky Hager told The Unionist this afternoon that viewers would see new material in the film.
"For someone who has read the book they will get it brought to life in pictures, and they will get some new information which I dug out for the film."
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