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cinema
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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
Books & arts
Emma rules again
Brian McFarlane
6 March 2020
Cinema
| Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & arts
Genre bending
Andrew Ford
20 February 2020
Music
|
Marriage Story
takes film music into new territory
Summer season
From comedy to drama in a blink
Julie Rigg
18 February 2020
Cinema
| Our reviewer recalls her first meeting with the director of
Parasite
Books & arts
A beautiful time at the cinema
Brian McFarlane
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
Essays & reportage
That quite indescribable miracle
Desley Deacon
10 December 2019
Inspired by Nellie Melba, Judith Anderson carved out a career on stage and screen
Books & arts
There is always a sequel
Jock Given
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
Books & arts
Gangster capitalism
Julie Rigg
19 November 2019
Cinema
|
The Irishman
and
The Report
reviewed
Books & arts
Reluctant monarch
Brian McFarlane
11 November 2019
Cinema
|
The King
confirms David Michôd as a major director
Books & arts
The lie that binds
Brian McFarlane
14 October 2019
Cinema
| Two very different films about family life
Books & arts
Silent witnesses
Julie Rigg
26 September 2019
Cinema
| Ambitious storytelling from directors Rodd Rathjen, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego
Books & arts
Another Palm Beach
Brian McFarlane
13 September 2019
Cinema
| Rachel Ward makes the most of a stellar cast
Books & arts
Metamorphoses
Julie Rigg
13 September 2019
Cinema
| Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in
The Nightingale
Books & arts
Predictable pile-ons
Julie Rigg
9 August 2019
Cinema
| The mob turns nasty in
Diego Maradona
and
The Final Quarter
Books & arts
How Hollywood saw England
Brian McFarlane
1 August 2019
Books
| American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Books & arts
On the road with the Ladies in Black
Sue Milliken
24 July 2019
Screenings across the world are attracting new friends for Australia, reports the film’s co-writer and producer
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