Books & arts
17 August 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Senna, Jane Eyre and The Illusionist
Books & arts
28 July 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
Books & arts
7 July 2011
Brian McFarlane reviews a perceptive biography of actor-director-manager John Gielgud
Books & arts
22 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
13 June 2011
Sylvia Lawson reviews a new book about Australian documentaries, and two recent cinema releases
Books & arts
24 May 2011
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews Here I Am and Mad Bastards
Books & arts
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
15 April 2011
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews four new releases, including How I Ended this Summer
Books & arts
7 April 2011
Resistance and collaboration were rarely clearcut in occupied France
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
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