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cinema
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
Books & arts
Power play
Sylvia Lawson
8 February 2012
Sylvia Lawson
on Clint Eastwood’s
J. Edgar
and this year’s Australian film awards
Books & arts
Old-fashioned politics
Sylvia Lawson
12 January 2012
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Iron Lady
and
The Ides of March
Books & arts
Real-life melodrama
Richard Johnstone
12 January 2012
Richard Johnstone
’s paperback of the month,
Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
Books & arts
Dissolving borders
Sylvia Lawson
15 December 2011
Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Here and now
Sylvia Lawson
7 December 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Toomelah
,
The Tall Man
and
Burning Man
Books & arts
Soaring above it all
Sylvia Lawson
27 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Woody Allen’s
Midnight in Paris
Books & arts
Rising to the operatic
Sylvia Lawson
5 October 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Eye of the Storm
and enters a controversy about
Red Dog
Books & arts
What will it be like without them?
Sylvia Lawson
20 September 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Page One
and
Pina
Books & arts
Dangerous pleasure
Sylvia Lawson
17 August 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Senna
,
Jane Eyre
and
The Illusionist
Books & arts
Things that cinema can do
Sylvia Lawson
28 July 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews Terrence Malick’s
The Tree of Life
and Kelly Reichardt’s
Meek’s Cutoff
Books & arts
The ages of Gielgud
7 July 2011
Brian McFarlane
reviews a perceptive biography of actor-director-manager John Gielgud
Books & arts
Arguments worth having
Sylvia Lawson
22 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson
at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
Blurred boundaries
Sylvia Lawson
13 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson
reviews a new book about Australian documentaries, and two recent cinema releases
Books & arts
Medea in Port Adelaide
Sylvia Lawson
24 May 2011
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Here I Am
and
Mad Bastards
Books & arts
The list goes on…
Richard Johnstone
4 May 2011
The Internet Movie Database changed the way we think about films, and now it’s influencing the industry itself, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
What we’re left with
Sylvia Lawson
15 April 2011
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews four new releases, including
How I Ended this Summer
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