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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
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
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