From the archive
28 September 2022
What explains the Belgian novelist’s enduring popularity?
National affairs
8 December 2021
Why has the National Film and Sound Archive suddenly found political favour?
Books & arts
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
23 July 2021
It’s crunch time for Australia’s film and sound heritage
Books & arts
7 July 2021
Molly Reynolds has documented a remarkable half-century career
Books & arts
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
Books & arts
11 April 2021
Cinema | Gary Oldman brings screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz to vivid life
Essays & reportage
19 March 2021
Mark Baker recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
Books & arts
10 March 2021
Cinema | Sam Neill stands out among a strong cast in Roger Michell’s Blackbird
Books & arts
11 February 2021
Books | A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & arts
15 December 2020
Cinema | Like all the best cinematic remakes, Rams stands on its own feet
Books & arts
26 November 2020
Books | Film critic David Thomson offers an idiosyncratic take on some of cinema’s greatest directors
Books & arts
5 November 2020
Books | Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & arts
30 October 2020
Cinema | What went wrong with this update of Hitchcock’s classic?
Books & arts
9 September 2020
Music | Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & arts
29 July 2020
Cinema | A White, White Day reviewed, and film news from Brisbane and Melbourne
Books & arts
10 July 2020
An unlikely coupling produces a vivid two hours of cinematic storytelling
Books & arts
18 June 2020
Cinema | A new documentary highlights a milestone in the fight for women’s rights
Books & arts
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
2 June 2020
Did Australian drama really go missing during the 1960s, as the standard accounts of theatre history assume?
Books & arts
29 May 2020
Books | The big screen offers a unique perspective on the past
Books & arts
20 May 2020
Australian-based production is beginning its slow recovery
Essays & reportage
23 April 2020
It’s an unsettling time to watch Stanley Kramer’s classic, On the Beach
Books & arts
1 April 2020
Cinema | Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
Books & arts
6 March 2020
Cinema | Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & arts
20 February 2020
Music | Marriage Story takes film music into new territory
Summer season
18 February 2020
Cinema | Our reviewer recalls her first meeting with the director of Parasite
Books & arts
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
Essays & reportage
10 December 2019
Inspired by Nellie Melba, Judith Anderson carved out a career on stage and screen
Books & arts
22 November 2019
Books | As Disney+ sets out to teach Netflix and others about streaming video, the chief executive of Walt Disney’s company shares lessons learned on the way to the top