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“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
Books & arts
One screen at a time
Sylvia Lawson
27 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson
looks back at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Virtual travels
Sylvia Lawson
20 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson
at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Sons and others
Sylvia Lawson
30 May 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Other Son
,
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
and
Tabu
Books & arts
The adaptive eye
Brian McFarlane
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues
Brian McFarlane
Correspondents
Tales of the unexpected
Clar Ni Chonghaile
2 May 2013
The world’s largest refugee settlement is now telling its own stories, writes
Clar Ni Chonghaile
Essays & reportage
Old medium, new century
Jock Given
30 April 2013
By the end of the year, Australia’s cinema industry will no longer be a film industry.
Jock Given
looks at what this means for storytelling on the big screen
Books & arts
Such a bloody wonderful place
Sylvia Lawson
28 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s
No
Correspondents
Ken Loach’s dreamland
David Hayes
28 April 2013
The renowned director’s new film, which uses the socialist mood of 1945 to assail the world Margaret Thatcher created, is bad history and worse politics, says
David Hayes
Books & arts
Taking flight
Sylvia Lawson
4 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Rust and Bone
and looks at the continuing controversy over
Zero Dark Thirty
Books & arts
Gripped tight
Sylvia Lawson
27 February 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Inside or out?
Sylvia Lawson
2 January 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
A cautious kind of hope
Sylvia Lawson
29 November 2012
New cinema releases reviewed by
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Vast landscapes in tumult
Sylvia Lawson
6 September 2012
Sylvia Lawson
on Sergei Bondarchuk’s
War and Peace
and the French film-maker Chris Marker
Books & arts
Living places
Sylvia Lawson
25 July 2012
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Elena
and
Where Do We Go Now?
and
Hysteria
, and pays tribute to Paul Willemen
Books & arts
Small armies
Sylvia Lawson
28 June 2012
A Sydney Film Festival postscript from
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Rough passages
Sylvia Lawson
14 June 2012
Sylvia Lawson
at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Unwasted moments
Sylvia Lawson
30 May 2012
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Silent Souls
,
Wish You Were Here
and
Love Letters from Teralba Road
Books & arts
How weird does this mob still seem?
Brian McFarlane
1 May 2012
Impossibly remote in many ways, the late fifties are portrayed with verve and nuance in John O’Grady’s bestselling novel, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
The desire of the crowd
Iain Topliss
27 April 2012
Iain Topliss
revisits Marcel Carné’s classic,
Les Enfants du Paradis
Books & arts
Some kind of real world
Sylvia Lawson
26 April 2012
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
This Must Be the Place
and
Le Havre
Books & arts
Boring is good
John Quiggin
8 March 2012
Margin Call
is a reminder that finance is both necessary and dangerous, writes
John Quiggin
Books & arts
Fragments of a modern Iran
Sylvia Lawson
7 March 2012
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
A Separation
and
The Artist
and pays tribute to producer Martin Williams
Essays & reportage
Along the pot-holed track
Sylvia Lawson
16 February 2012
Extract
| Visiting Alice Springs opens up other journeys captured on film and in prose and poetry
Books & arts
Going to the movies, writing about the movies
Brian McFarlane
15 February 2012
Brian McFarlane
on the life and work of the formidable American critic, Pauline Kael
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