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cinema
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
Books & Arts
Look what they’re doing to each other
Julie Rigg
6 July 2019
South Korean cinema maintains the rage with
Burning
and
Parasite
Books & Arts
The filmmaker’s gaze
Julie Rigg
28 June 2019
Cinema
| French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
Books & Arts
Paradise lost
Julie Rigg
26 June 2019
Cinema
|
Happy as Lazzaro
is the latest work from a highly original talent
Books & Arts
Adaptation and adaptability
Brian McFarlane
20 June 2019
Cinema
| To mine Shakespeare’s life and work successfully, filmmakers need to find something new
Books & Arts
Landscape with figures
Brian McFarlane
5 April 2019
Cinema
| Bill Nighy delivers a characteristically ambiguous performance in
Sometimes Always Never
Books & Arts
Fun while it lasted
Brian McFarlane
12 March 2019
Cinema
|
Stan & Ollie
looks at what came after the comedy
Recovered Lives
An Australian in silent Hollywood
Anne Rees
8 March 2019
Sylvia Breamer (1897–1943)
Books & Arts
Reconciliation without tears
Julie Rigg
2 March 2019
Cinema
| Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and
At Eternity’s Gate
reviewed
Books & Arts
Dangerous oppositions
Brian McFarlane
6 February 2019
Cinema
| Two remarkable women receive two great portrayals in
Mary Queen of Scots
Books & Arts
Dangerous liaisons
Julie Rigg
4 February 2019
Cinema
|
Green Book
and
Loro
reviewed, and a second look at
The Favourite
Books & Arts
Running hot and cold
Julie Rigg
3 January 2019
Cinema | Julie Rigg
reviews Adam McKay’s
Vice
and Pawel Pawlikowski’s
Cold War
Books & Arts
Just the ticket
Brian McFarlane
3 January 2019
Cinema
| Somewhere between her time and ours, Queen Anne takes to the screen in
The Favourite
Books & Arts
An adaptation for grown-ups
Brian McFarlane
6 December 2018
Cinema
|
The Children Act
succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative
Books & Arts
Remembered intimacies
Julie Rigg
26 November 2018
Cinema
| Alfonso Cuarón’s
Roma
reviewed, and a tribute to documentary-maker Curtis Levy
From the archive
Suspended between life and death
Richard Johnstone
16 November 2018
Peter Jackson’s vivid account of the Great War is also a tribute to the art of the cinema
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