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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 13 November 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews Ivan Sen’s masterly Mystery Road
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 17 October 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Turning, Gravity, Blue Jasmine, Stories We Tell and The Act of Killing Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 12 September 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Gatekeepers and The Rocket Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 22 August 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews Sue Milliken’s account of a career in Australian film-making Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 25 July 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews Satellite Boy, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks and The Great Gatsby
From the archive Sylvia Lawson 17 July 2013 This 1954 documentary has “a kind of radiance” that captivated audiences around the world
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 27 June 2013 Sylvia Lawson looks back at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 20 June 2013 Sylvia Lawson at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 30 May 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Other Son, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Tabu Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 28 April 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 4 April 2013 Sylvia Lawson reviews Rust and Bone and looks at the continuing controversy over Zero Dark Thirty
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 19 March 2013 Sylvia Lawson on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 27 February 2013 New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 2 January 2013 New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 29 November 2012 New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 6 September 2012 Sylvia Lawson on Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace and the French film-maker Chris Marker
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 25 July 2012 Sylvia Lawson reviews Elena and Where Do We Go Now? and Hysteria, and pays tribute to Paul Willemen Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 28 June 2012 A Sydney Film Festival postscript from Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 14 June 2012 Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 30 May 2012 Sylvia Lawson reviews Silent Souls, Wish You Were Here and Love Letters from Teralba Road
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 26 April 2012 Sylvia Lawson reviews This Must Be the Place and Le Havre
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 7 March 2012 Sylvia Lawson reviews A Separation and The Artist and pays tribute to producer Martin Williams Essays & reportage Sylvia Lawson 16 February 2012 Extract | Visiting Alice Springs opens up other journeys captured on film and in prose and poetry Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 8 February 2012 Sylvia Lawson on Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and this year’s Australian film awards Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 12 January 2012 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Iron Lady and The Ides of March
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 15 December 2011 Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 7 December 2011 Sylvia Lawson reviews Toomelah, The Tall Man and Burning Man Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 27 October 2011 Sylvia Lawson reviews Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 5 October 2011 Sylvia Lawson reviews The Eye of the Storm and enters a controversy about Red Dog Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 20 September 2011 Sylvia Lawson reviews Page One and Pina