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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 17 August 2011 Sylvia Lawson reviews Senna, Jane Eyre and The Illusionist
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 28 July 2011 Sylvia Lawson reviews Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 22 June 2011 Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 13 June 2011 Sylvia Lawson reviews a new book about Australian documentaries, and two recent cinema releases Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 24 May 2011 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews Here I Am and Mad Bastards
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 15 April 2011 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews four new releases, including How I Ended this Summer
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 7 April 2011 Resistance and collaboration were rarely clearcut in occupied France Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 24 March 2011 CINEMA | As Charles Ferguson’s new documentary shows, much of the liveliest cinema falls outside feature films, writes Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 23 February 2011 CINEMA | Pete Postlethwaite left behind a remarkable Australian film, writes Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 19 January 2011 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson at The King’s Speech and two cinema conferences in Sydney
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 23 November 2010 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reports from the third Palestinian Film Festival
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 18 November 2010 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews Winter’s Bone, The Social Network and Genius Within Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 20 October 2010 CINEMA | Taika Waititi’s Boy draws on a decades-old tradition of Maori political and cultural activism, writes Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 22 September 2010 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson at the Wheeler Centre, the Silent Film Festival and the local movie-house Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 18 August 2010 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews The Ghost Writer and Animal Kingdom
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 22 July 2010 DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 16 June 2010 CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with Sylvia Lawson Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 10 June 2010 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson walks past the Opera House, through the writers’ festival and into the 2010 Sydney Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 12 May 2010 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews the Message Sticks Film Festival – including the “utterly unexpected” Boxing for Palm Island Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 1 April 2010 CINEMA | The Hurt Locker doesn’t ask the question, but the audience must, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 25 February 2010 CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews A Prophet and Precious
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 4 February 2010 CINEMA | The Australian film industry might not be as stricken as some commentators suggest. Sylvia Lawson looks back at a year’s output Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 3 November 2009 Sylvia Lawson discusses this year’s Palestinian film festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 23 September 2009 Sylvia Lawson reviews Beautiful Kate and Blessed Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 25 August 2009 Robert Connolly’s Balibo draws together more than three decades of committed investigation and writing
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 5 August 2009 Sylvia Lawson discusses the re-release of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 7 July 2009 Sylvia Lawson reviews highlights of the Sydney Film Festival and the soon-to-tour Arab Film Festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 19 May 2009 Sylvia Lawson reviews Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah and this year’s Message Sticks festival Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 11 March 2009 Sylvia Lawson reviews Laurent Cantet’s The Class and David Field’s The Combination Essays & reportage Sylvia Lawson 6 January 2009 We are constantly delivered a double miracle: Aboriginal survival, and the Aboriginal will to forgive us all and share it, writes Sylvia Lawson