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cinema
Books & Arts
Does anyone have a pencil?
Jamie Hanson
27 April 2023
Two men, five books, one film
Essays & Reportage
An industry awakens
Tina Kaufman
24 April 2023
A busy industry was waiting impatiently for the revival of Australian feature film-making in the early 1970s
Books & Arts
A kind of alchemy
Jane Goodall
22 November 2022
Rationalism and magical thinking contend in
The Wonder
Essays & Reportage
Twelve vexed Canberrans
Jeremy Gans
21 November 2022
What did we learn about juries from the abrupt conclusion to last month’s trial of a ministerial staffer?
Essays & Reportage
Re-creation and regret
Richard Johnstone
3 November 2022
While Melburnians watch
The Lost City of Melbourne
, Sydneysiders debate Barangaroo
Essays & Reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
From the archive
The simplicity of Simenon
Richard Johnstone
28 September 2022
What explains the Belgian novelist’s enduring popularity?
National Affairs
Promises, promises…
Ray Edmondson
8 December 2021
Why has the National Film and Sound Archive suddenly found political favour?
Books & Arts
Churchill on — and sometimes behind — the screen
Brian McFarlane
8 October 2021
Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda
Essays & Reportage
Time for another visionary moment at the NFSA
Ray Edmondson
23 July 2021
It’s crunch time for Australia’s film and sound heritage
Books & Arts
Being David Gulpilil
Brian McFarlane
7 July 2021
Molly Reynolds has documented a remarkable half-century career
Books & Arts
Holding on
Brian McFarlane
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
Books & Arts
Raising Kane
Brian McFarlane
11 April 2021
Cinema
| Gary Oldman brings screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz to vivid life
Essays & Reportage
How the world spins
Mark Baker
19 March 2021
Mark Baker
recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
Books & Arts
Chronicle of a death foretold
Brian McFarlane
10 March 2021
Cinema
| Sam Neill stands out among a strong cast in Roger Michell’s
Blackbird
Books & Arts
Reckless game
Brian McFarlane
11 February 2021
Books
| A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & Arts
Figures in a landscape
Brian McFarlane
15 December 2020
Cinema
| Like all the best cinematic remakes,
Rams
stands on its own feet
Books & Arts
Strangers in the dark
Brian McFarlane
26 November 2020
Books
| Film critic David Thomson offers an idiosyncratic take on some of cinema’s greatest directors
Books & Arts
On the offensive
Susan Lever
5 November 2020
Books
| Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & Arts
There’s no going back
Desley Deacon
30 October 2020
Cinema
| What went wrong with this update of Hitchcock’s classic?
Books & Arts
The sun also rises
Andrew Ford
9 September 2020
Music
| Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & Arts
Cold case
Julie Rigg
29 July 2020
Cinema
|
A White, White Day
reviewed, and film news from Brisbane and Melbourne
Books & Arts
Iannucci gets inside Dickens
Brian McFarlane
10 July 2020
Cinema
| An unlikely coupling produces a vivid two hours of cinematic storytelling
Books & Arts
Nothing inspires like success
Julie Rigg
18 June 2020
Cinema
| A new documentary highlights a milestone in the fight for women’s rights
Books & Arts
Cinema in a time of coronavirus
Julie Rigg
15 June 2020
Cinema
| Back from a different kind of isolation, our critic catches up on
Hearts and Bones
,
Motherless Brooklyn
and the screen landscape
Books & Arts
TV drama and the revival of Australian theatre and film
Susan Lever
2 June 2020
Did Australian drama really go missing during the 1960s, as the standard accounts of theatre history assume?
Books & Arts
Film as history
Brian McFarlane
29 May 2020
Books
| The big screen offers a unique perspective on the past
Books & Arts
Screen production in a time of pandemic
Nick Herd
20 May 2020
Australian-based production is beginning its slow recovery
Essays & Reportage
Off the beach
Robert Milliken
23 April 2020
It’s an unsettling time to watch Stanley Kramer’s classic,
On the Beach
Books & Arts
Downhill — but not all the way
Brian McFarlane
1 April 2020
Cinema
| Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
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