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Sylvia Lawson

Sylvia Lawson (1932–2017) was Inside Story’s film writer from 2009 to 2016. Her books include the multi-award-winning The Archibald Paradox, a study of the early Sydney Bulletin and its first editor; How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia, which won the Gleebooks prize for 2003; The Outside Story, a novel centred on the Sydney Opera House; and Demanding the Impossible: Essays on Resistance. Peter Browne pays tribute to her here, and Tom O’Regan’s tribute is here.

Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 22 September 2016 Cinema | Clint Eastwood’s Sully reaches beyond its real-life plot
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 22 July 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Goldstone and The Measure of a Man. Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 7 June 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Chasing Asylum Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 25 May 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Rams and The Man Who Knew Infinity Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 8 April 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Son of Saul and The Daughter
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 29 February 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson views Looking for Grace through the lens of John Hinde’s classic analysis of Australian film
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 3 February 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Spotlight and The Big Short Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 15 December 2015 Cinema | Philip Noyce’s 1978 feature was an antidote to the tasteful costume dramas of the reviving Australian film industry, writes Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 25 June 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson looks back on this year’s Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 18 June 2015 Cinema | From the Sydney Film Festival Sylvia Lawson reviews The Pearl Button and The Look of Silence
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 21 May 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson on Canberra’s last Electric Shadow, George Brandis and the Australia Council, and Testament of Youth and X+Y
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 29 April 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews German Concentration Camps Factual Survey and remembers film-maker David Perry Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 2 April 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Leviathan and Selma Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 27 February 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews the Oscar-winning Citizenfour Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 28 January 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Wild, Birdman and The Imitation Game
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 18 December 2014 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Particle Fever, The Dark Horse and Finding Vivian Maier, and farewells Margaret and David
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 26 November 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews Two Days, One Night and Winter Sleep, and dips into three film festivals Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 30 October 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews Rocking the Foundations, The 50-Year Argument and The Land Between Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 2 October 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Immigrant and Message from Mungo Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 20 August 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews Once My Mother and A Most Wanted Man
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 30 July 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews Charlie’s Country
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 17 July 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews Omar and Calvary Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 20 June 2014 Sylvia Lawson reports from the Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 5 June 2014 Sylvia Lawson on the Sydney Film Festival, My Sweet Pepper Land and Ida Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 15 May 2014 Sylvia Lawson looks at National Film and Sound Archive cuts and reviews The Grand Budapest Hotel and Healing
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 3 April 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews Hannah Arendt, The Missing Picture, Tracks and The Great Beauty
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 5 March 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Past and Utopia Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 6 February 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Wolf of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn Davis Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 16 January 2014 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Railway Man, Philomena and American Hustle Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 12 December 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews Fallout, The Darkside and After May