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cinema
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
Books & arts
Who knows, and who can judge?
Sylvia Lawson
7 April 2011
Resistance and collaboration were rarely clearcut in occupied France
Correspondents
The elusive Mr Logue
Frank Bongiorno
28 March 2011
In London
Frank Bongiorno
looks at why Lionel Logue is portrayed as an Aussie larrikin in
The King’s Speech
Books & arts
Drama, real and imagined
Sylvia Lawson
24 March 2011
CINEMA | As Charles Ferguson’s new documentary shows, much of the liveliest cinema falls outside feature films, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Pete’s legacy
Sylvia Lawson
23 February 2011
CINEMA | Pete Postlethwaite left behind a remarkable Australian film, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Of kings and conferences
Sylvia Lawson
19 January 2011
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
at
The King’s Speech
and two cinema conferences in Sydney
Podcasts
“I needed to know all about them. And, more than that, I needed to write about them”
Peter Clarke
23 December 2010
Brian McFarlane
talks to
Peter Clarke
about a lifetime at the movies
Books & arts
Breaking the stereotypes
Sylvia Lawson
23 November 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reports from the third Palestinian Film Festival
Books & arts
No steady ground
Sylvia Lawson
18 November 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Winter’s Bone
,
The Social Network
and
Genius Within
Books & arts
A long inheritance
Sylvia Lawson
20 October 2010
CINEMA | Taika Waititi’s
Boy
draws on a decades-old tradition of Maori political and cultural activism, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
Yesterday, today and next week
Sylvia Lawson
22 September 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
at the Wheeler Centre, the Silent Film Festival and the local movie-house
Books & arts
Playing the game
Sylvia Lawson
18 August 2010
CINEMA |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Ghost Writer
and
Animal Kingdom
Books & arts
Arguing for peace
Sylvia Lawson
22 July 2010
DOCUMENTARY |
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Hope in a Slingshot
, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
Books & arts
Hollywood economics
Ben Goldsmith
13 July 2010
Ben Goldsmith
reviews Edward Jay Epstein’s compelling behind-the-scenes account of how money moves in Hollywood
Books & arts
Adventuring
Sylvia Lawson
16 June 2010
CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with
Sylvia Lawson
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