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cinema
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True stories
Sylvia Lawson
27 February 2015
Cinema
|
Sylvia Lawson
reviews the Oscar-winning
Citizenfour
Books & Arts
Lives in motion
Sylvia Lawson
28 January 2015
Cinema
|
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Wild
,
Birdman
and
The Imitation Game
Books & Arts
The compulsion in the quest
Sylvia Lawson
18 December 2014
Cinema
|
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Particle Fever
,
The Dark Horse
and
Finding Vivian Maier
, and farewells Margaret and David
Books & Arts
Worlds beyond the window
Sylvia Lawson
26 November 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Two Days, One Night
and
Winter Sleep
, and dips into three film festivals
Books & Arts
Documentary? Just call it cinema
Sylvia Lawson
30 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Rocking the Foundations
,
The 50-Year Argument
and
The Land Between
Books & Arts
Ubiquitous Uncle Vanya
Brian McFarlane
2 October 2014
Brian McFarlane
revisits Chekhov’s remarkable play, on screen and away from Russia
Books & Arts
This is how it was
Sylvia Lawson
2 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Immigrant
and
Message from Mungo
Books & Arts
La vita difficile
Angela Daly
30 September 2014
Away from the holiday playgrounds, Europe is running on low-paid labour, writes
Angela Daly
Books & Arts
The making of a great biography
Brian McFarlane
23 September 2014
Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says
Brian McFarlane
Books & Arts
Somewhere along the line, we’re implicated
Sylvia Lawson
20 August 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Once My Mother
and
A Most Wanted Man
Books & Arts
His country, and ours
Sylvia Lawson
30 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Charlie’s Country
Books & Arts
Too much talked of sin, too little of virtue
Sylvia Lawson
17 July 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Omar
and
Calvary
Books & Arts
The spaces between the facts
Sylvia Lawson
20 June 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reports from the Sydney Film Festival
Books & Arts
This is now, and the battles continue
Sylvia Lawson
5 June 2014
Sylvia Lawson
on the Sydney Film Festival,
My Sweet Pepper Land
and
Ida
Books & Arts
Never believe the trailer
Sylvia Lawson
15 May 2014
Sylvia Lawson
looks at National Film and Sound Archive cuts and reviews
The Grand Budapest Hotel
and
Healing
Books & Arts
Heads or tails?
Jock Given & Marion Mccutcheon
7 May 2014
Does the future of entertainment lie with superstars or in the “long tail,” ask
Jock Given
and
Marion McCutcheon
Books & Arts
What about the rabbit?
Brian McFarlane
26 April 2014
In London,
Brian McFarlane
reviews three valiant attempts to make the transition from celluloid to the theatre
Books & Arts
Heads above water
Sylvia Lawson
3 April 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Hannah Arendt
,
The Missing Picture
,
Tracks
and
The Great Beauty
Books & Arts
Not so much the tale as its telling
Sylvia Lawson
5 March 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Past
and
Utopia
Books & Arts
It’s about America
Sylvia Lawson
6 February 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Wolf of Wall Street
and
Inside Llewyn Davis
Books & Arts
Buried alive
Sylvia Lawson
16 January 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Railway Man
,
Philomena
and
American Hustle
Books & Arts
Why he cared so much
Sylvia Lawson
12 December 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Fallout
,
The Darkside
and
After May
Books & Arts
Silence made visible
Sylvia Lawson
13 November 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Ivan Sen’s masterly
Mystery Road
Books & Arts
Big world
Sylvia Lawson
17 October 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Turning
,
Gravity
,
Blue Jasmine
,
Stories We Tell
and
The Act of Killing
Books & Arts
“Unfounded attack on Dad and Dave comedies!”
Julieanne Lamond
9 October 2013
By the time Ken G. Hall filmed
Dad Rudd M.P.
, his film-making had come to reflect international popular culture as well as Australian traditions, writes
Julieanne Lamond
Books & Arts
If content is king then distribution is King Kong
Annabelle Sheehan
2 October 2013
The film and TV landscape has changed forever.
Annabelle Sheehan
reviews a timely guidebook
Books & Arts
Losing the war
Sylvia Lawson
12 September 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Gatekeepers
and
The Rocket
Books & Arts
Magnetism and magic
Sylvia Lawson
22 August 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Sue Milliken’s account of a career in Australian film-making
Books & Arts
Between one geography and another
Sylvia Lawson
25 July 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Satellite Boy
,
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
and
The Great Gatsby
From the archive
Watching The Back of Beyond
Sylvia Lawson
17 July 2013
This 1954 documentary has “a kind of radiance” that captivated audiences around the world
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