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
Essays & reportage
6 January 2009
We are constantly delivered a double miracle: Aboriginal survival, and the Aboriginal will to forgive us all and share it, writes Sylvia Lawson
Essays & reportage
18 December 2008
Two films made sixty years apart are a reminder of how hard it is to tell the story of Australia, writes Dean Ashenden