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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 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 The adaptive eye Brian McFarlane 2 May 2013 The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane 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