Books & arts
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
23 February 2011
CINEMA | Pete Postlethwaite left behind a remarkable Australian film, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
19 January 2011
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson at The King’s Speech and two cinema conferences in Sydney
Podcasts
23 December 2010
Brian McFarlane talks to Peter Clarke about a lifetime at the movies
Books & arts
23 November 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reports from the third Palestinian Film Festival
Books & arts
18 November 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews Winter’s Bone, The Social Network and Genius Within
Books & arts
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
22 September 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson at the Wheeler Centre, the Silent Film Festival and the local movie-house
Books & arts
18 August 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews The Ghost Writer and Animal Kingdom
Books & arts
22 July 2010
DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
Books & arts
13 July 2010
Ben Goldsmith reviews Edward Jay Epstein’s compelling behind-the-scenes account of how money moves in Hollywood
Books & arts
16 June 2010
CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
10 June 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson walks past the Opera House, through the writers’ festival and into the 2010 Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
12 May 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews the Message Sticks Film Festival – including the “utterly unexpected” Boxing for Palm Island
Books & arts
1 April 2010
CINEMA | The Hurt Locker doesn’t ask the question, but the audience must, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
25 February 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews A Prophet and Precious
Essays & reportage
11 February 2010
Media companies’ campaign against internet piracy suffered a major setback last week when a federal court judgement let internet service providers off the hook for their…
Books & arts
4 February 2010
CINEMA | The Australian film industry might not be as stricken as some commentators suggest. Sylvia Lawson looks back at a year’s output
Books & arts
4 December 2009
The convenors of the “Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Reviewed” conference look at the film’s engagement with Indigenous history
Books & arts
3 November 2009
Sylvia Lawson discusses this year’s Palestinian film festival
Books & arts
23 September 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Beautiful Kate and Blessed
Books & arts
25 August 2009
Robert Connolly’s Balibo draws together more than three decades of committed investigation and writing
Books & arts
5 August 2009
Sylvia Lawson discusses the re-release of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright
Books & arts
7 July 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews highlights of the Sydney Film Festival and the soon-to-tour Arab Film Festival
Books & arts
19 May 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah and this year’s Message Sticks festival
Books & arts
4 May 2009
No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes…
Books & arts
15 April 2009
Lauded overseas, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a flawed account of an important part of modern German history, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
17 March 2009
Part of the international success of Bernard Schlink’s novel, The Reader, reflects a mistaken view of contemporary Germany, writes Klaus Neumann
Books & arts
11 March 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Laurent Cantet’s The Class and David Field’s The Combination
Books & arts
21 January 2009
Screen Australia arrives in the world amid a renewed debate about the film industry