From the archive
17 July 2013
This 1954 documentary has “a kind of radiance” that captivated audiences around the world
Books & arts
27 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson looks back at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
20 June 2013
Sylvia Lawson at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
30 May 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Other Son, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Tabu
Books & arts
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane
2 May 2013
The world’s largest refugee settlement is now telling its own stories, writes Clar Ni Chonghaile
Essays & reportage
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
28 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No
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
4 April 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Rust and Bone and looks at the continuing controversy over Zero Dark Thirty
Books & arts
27 February 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
2 January 2013
New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
29 November 2012
New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
6 September 2012
Sylvia Lawson on Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace and the French film-maker Chris Marker
Books & arts
25 July 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews Elena and Where Do We Go Now? and Hysteria, and pays tribute to Paul Willemen
Books & arts
28 June 2012
A Sydney Film Festival postscript from Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
14 June 2012
Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
30 May 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews Silent Souls, Wish You Were Here and Love Letters from Teralba Road
Books & arts
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
27 April 2012
Iain Topliss revisits Marcel Carné’s classic, Les Enfants du Paradis
Books & arts
26 April 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews This Must Be the Place and Le Havre
Books & arts
8 March 2012
Margin Call is a reminder that finance is both necessary and dangerous, writes John Quiggin
Books & arts
7 March 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews A Separation and The Artist and pays tribute to producer Martin Williams
Books & arts
15 February 2012
Brian McFarlane on the life and work of the formidable American critic, Pauline Kael
Books & arts
8 February 2012
Sylvia Lawson on Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and this year’s Australian film awards
Books & arts
12 January 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Iron Lady and The Ides of March
Books & arts
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
15 December 2011
Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
7 December 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Toomelah, The Tall Man and Burning Man