Bagnall

The title Alison Bagnall gives to her second feature-- The Dish & The Spoon-- brings to mind the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" in which the dish runs away with the spoon.

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General bibliographic reference tools such as Bagnall's New Zealand National Bibliography to 1960 and its successor the annual current National Bibliography are useful starting points for Pacific Island language material, together with (for periodical articles) the Index to New Zealand Periodicals and associated electronic databases.

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

That desire pays off for Bagnall and audiences alike, as Gerwig and Alexander have a bittersweet chemistry that makes The Dish & The Spoon a moving and humorous exploration of betrayal.

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During the course of the film I fell in love with both characters, as Bagnall establishes a sweet, junior high kind of romance between these two wounded souls.

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Bagnall first emerged as the co-writer of the seminal Buffalo '66 in 1999, but an appearance in Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's 2008 feature Nights and Weekends lured her back into filmmaking.

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Bagnall says that her previous feature made in 2003, wasn't really that fun to make.

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In less capable hands than Bagnall, and with actors less attuned to each other than Gerwig and Alexander, The Dish & The Spoon could be an awkward and uncomfortable journey.

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As Bagnall told me in an interview which we'll have up early this coming week, the story is about how sometimes what should be the worst times of your life wind up, in retrospect, being the best.

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We have to hope that audiences discover this film so that we get to see Bagnall run away with Gerwig and Alexander again soon.

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U.K. and other foreign troops, and by other Iraqis in sectarian violence, Peter Bagnall, who analyzed the documents for Iraq Body Count, said in an interview.

Website Claims 15,000 Unreported Iraq War Deaths Jeanne Whalen 2010