Books & arts
2 May 2025
A deep dive into the archives of controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl has some startling moments
Books & arts
20 November 2024
Two powerful films, a documentary and a feature, offer urgent perspectives on people, place and power
Books & arts
29 August 2023
Politics wasn’t far away when Blood, Sweat & Tears brought the house down in Romania
Books & arts
23 June 2023
Utopia darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & arts
27 June 2020
Television | Filmmaker Warwick Thornton turns the camera on himself
Books & arts
4 June 2020
Television | Does Road to Now’s attempt to find connections simply show that things fall apart?
Essays & reportage
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
Books & arts
9 August 2019
Cinema | The mob turns nasty in Diego Maradona and The Final Quarter
Books & arts
19 July 2019
Television | Etched in Bone tells its story with restraint and empathy
Books & arts
26 November 2018
Cinema | Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma reviewed, and a tribute to documentary-maker Curtis Levy
Books & arts
1 May 2018
Cinema | As much a performance as a documentary, this new film captures a remarkable mind
Books & arts
27 September 2016
Television | A new documentary reveals the steely resolve of Barack Obama
Books & arts
22 September 2016
Fascinated by cities, Chinese artist and documentary-maker Cao Fei constantly returns to urban landscapes
Essays & reportage
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
25 June 2015
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson looks back on this year’s Sydney Film Festival
Books & arts
18 June 2015
Cinema | From the Sydney Film Festival Sylvia Lawson reviews The Pearl Button and The Look of Silence
Books & arts
8 May 2015
Television | “Poverty porn” it isn’t, but the aims of Struggle Street still worry Jane Goodall
Books & arts
30 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Rocking the Foundations, The 50-Year Argument and The Land Between
Books & arts
2 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Immigrant and Message from Mungo
Books & arts
20 August 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Once My Mother and A Most Wanted Man
Books & arts
14 August 2014
Angela Daly reviews an award-winning documentary about a technology that could fundamentally change manufacturing
Books & arts
5 March 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Past and Utopia
From the archive
17 July 2013
This 1954 documentary has “a kind of radiance” that captivated audiences around the world