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documentaries
Books & arts
What goes up must come down
Brett Evans
29 August 2023
Politics wasn’t far away when Blood, Sweat & Tears brought the house down in Romania
Books & arts
Daily humiliations
Jane Goodall
23 June 2023
Utopia
darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & arts
On the beach
Jane Goodall
27 June 2020
Television
| Filmmaker Warwick Thornton turns the camera on himself
Books & arts
Chaos is come again
Jane Goodall
4 June 2020
Television
| Does
Road to Now
’s attempt to find connections simply show that things fall apart
?
Essays & reportage
Inflammatory exchanges
Jane Goodall
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
Books & arts
Predictable pile-ons
Julie Rigg
9 August 2019
Cinema
| The mob turns nasty in
Diego Maradona
and
The Final Quarter
Books & arts
Coming home
Jane Goodall
19 July 2019
Television
|
Etched in Bone
tells its story with restraint and empathy
Books & arts
Remembered intimacies
Julie Rigg
26 November 2018
Cinema
| Alfonso Cuarón’s
Roma
reviewed, and a tribute to documentary-maker Curtis Levy
Books & arts
Citizen Jones
Brian McFarlane
1 May 2018
Cinema
| As much a performance as a documentary, this new film captures a remarkable mind
Books & arts
The fierce urgency of now
Jane Goodall
27 September 2016
Television
| A new documentary reveals the steely resolve of Barack Obama
Books & arts
Whose utopia?
Madeleine O’Dea
22 September 2016
Fascinated by cities, Chinese artist and documentary-maker Cao Fei constantly returns to urban landscapes
Essays & reportage
Menzies and the making of postwar Australia
Tim Colebatch
17 September 2016
Howard on Menzies
makes for compelling viewing. But its flaws echo the shortcomings of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister
Books & arts
At the end of the line
Sylvia Lawson
25 June 2015
Cinema
|
Sylvia Lawson
looks back on this year’s Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
The steady gaze
Sylvia Lawson
18 June 2015
Cinema
| From the Sydney Film Festival
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Pearl Button
and
The Look of Silence
Books & arts
An ethical tightrope across Struggle Street
Jane Goodall
8 May 2015
Television
| “Poverty porn” it isn’t, but the aims of
Struggle Street
still worry
Jane Goodall
Books & arts
“War goes to sleep, but with one eye always open”
Sylvia Lawson
29 April 2015
Cinema
|
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
and remembers film-maker David Perry
Books & arts
Documentary? Just call it cinema
Sylvia Lawson
30 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Rocking the Foundations
,
The 50-Year Argument
and
The Land Between
Books & arts
This is how it was
Sylvia Lawson
2 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Immigrant
and
Message from Mungo
Books & arts
Somewhere along the line, we’re implicated
Sylvia Lawson
20 August 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Once My Mother
and
A Most Wanted Man
Books & arts
The American dream, in 3D
Angela Daly
14 August 2014
Angela Daly
reviews an award-winning documentary about a technology that could fundamentally change manufacturing
Books & arts
Not so much the tale as its telling
Sylvia Lawson
5 March 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Past
and
Utopia
From the archive
Watching The Back of Beyond
Sylvia Lawson
17 July 2013
This 1954 documentary has “a kind of radiance” that captivated audiences around the world