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cinema
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
Books & Arts
Out of the danger zone
Julie Rigg
2 November 2018
Cinema
| Julie Rigg reviews
Backtrack Boys
and
Beautiful Boy
Books & Arts
The light and the dark
Julie Rigg
3 October 2018
Cinema
| Julie Rigg reviews
Ladies in Black
and
Custody
Books & Arts
How Spike does history
Julie Rigg
31 August 2018
Cinema
|
BlacKkKlansman
is a testament to Lee’s mastery of rapidly shifting moods
Books & Arts
On the edge
Julie Rigg
24 July 2018
Cinema
| New films from Italy and Australia capture life on the
periferia
Books & Arts
Two novels, two films
Brian McFarlane
16 July 2018
Cinema
| Translating short works to the screen has its special challenges
Books & Arts
Cover-up
Julie Rigg
25 June 2018
Cinema
| Samuel Maoz’s
Foxtrot
and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s
Shoplifters
reviewed
Books & Arts
Neither here nor there
Brian McFarlane
30 May 2018
Extract
| Australian film-makers do best when they don’t try to beat Hollywood at its own game
Books & Arts
Sons and others
Julie Rigg
5 May 2018
Cinema
|
Julie Rigg
reviews
Breath
and
Loveless
Books & Arts
Citizen Jones
Brian McFarlane
1 May 2018
Cinema
| As much a performance as a documentary, this new film captures a remarkable mind
Books & Arts
Scenes from an old country
Brian McFarlane
28 March 2018
Cinema
| The British Film Festival has been an unexpected hit with Australian audiences
Books & Arts
Pygmalion subverted
Julie Rigg
7 March 2018
Cinema
| Of this year’s Oscar contenders,
Phantom Thread
seems most likely to endure
Books & Arts
Confounded expectations
Julie Rigg
19 January 2018
Cinema
| Archetypes are challenged in Warwick Thornton’s latest film
Books & Arts
Demanding the impossible
Tom O'Regan
8 November 2017
An appreciation of journalist, critic and film industry activist Sylvia Lawson, who died this week
Books & Arts
Cinema in a time of war
Brian McFarlane
4 September 2017
How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war?
Books & Arts
Two for the road — and two on the road
Brian McFarlane
11 August 2017
Cinema
| Two undemanding but shrewdly written films have hidden depths
Books & Arts
The sense of an adaptation
Brian McFarlane
25 May 2017
Cinema
|
The Sense of an Ending
reveals another way of translating fiction onto the screen
Books & Arts
The adaptable Winifred Holtby
Brian McFarlane
20 March 2017
Out of the unpromising material of local government, Winifred Holtby created a fine novel that went on to be filmed three times
Books & Arts
Hanging on
Brian McFarlane
8 February 2017
Cinema
| Kenneth Lonergan’s latest film steers clear of sentimentality and easy comedy
Books & Arts
Comic turn
Brian McFarlane
22 January 2017
Cinema
| Like all good comedy,
The Edge of Seventeen
takes its job very seriously
Books & Arts
Daughter, sister, friend, poet
Brian McFarlane
23 December 2016
Cinema
| Terence Davies’s
A Quiet Passion
captures Emily Dickinson in a rich social setting
Books & Arts
Ken Loach’s wasteland
David Hayes
2 December 2016
Cinema
| The veteran director’s tender dive into the indignity of Britain’s welfare system tries too hard to avoid complication
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