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cinema
Books & Arts
Iannucci gets inside Dickens
Brian McFarlane
10 July 2020
Cinema
| An unlikely coupling produces a vivid two hours of cinematic storytelling
Books & Arts
Nothing inspires like success
Julie Rigg
18 June 2020
Cinema
| A new documentary highlights a milestone in the fight for women’s rights
Books & Arts
Cinema in a time of coronavirus
Julie Rigg
15 June 2020
Cinema
| Back from a different kind of isolation, our critic catches up on
Hearts and Bones
,
Motherless Brooklyn
and the screen landscape
Books & Arts
TV drama and the revival of Australian theatre and film
Susan Lever
2 June 2020
Did Australian drama really go missing during the 1960s, as the standard accounts of theatre history assume?
Books & Arts
Film as history
Brian McFarlane
29 May 2020
Books
| The big screen offers a unique perspective on the past
Books & Arts
Screen production in a time of pandemic
Nick Herd
20 May 2020
Australian-based production is beginning its slow recovery
Essays & Reportage
Off the beach
Robert Milliken
23 April 2020
It’s an unsettling time to watch Stanley Kramer’s classic,
On the Beach
Books & Arts
Downhill — but not all the way
Brian McFarlane
1 April 2020
Cinema
| Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
Books & Arts
Emma rules again
Brian McFarlane
6 March 2020
Cinema
| Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & Arts
Genre bending
Andrew Ford
20 February 2020
Music
|
Marriage Story
takes film music into new territory
Summer season
From comedy to drama in a blink
Julie Rigg
18 February 2020
Cinema
| Our reviewer recalls her first meeting with the director of
Parasite
Books & Arts
A beautiful time at the cinema
Brian McFarlane
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
Essays & Reportage
That quite indescribable miracle
Desley Deacon
10 December 2019
Inspired by Nellie Melba, Judith Anderson carved out a career on stage and screen
Books & Arts
There is always a sequel
Jock Given
22 November 2019
Books
| As Disney+ sets out to teach Netflix and others about streaming video, the chief executive of Walt Disney’s company shares lessons learned on the way to the top
Books & Arts
Gangster capitalism
Julie Rigg
19 November 2019
Cinema
|
The Irishman
and
The Report
reviewed
Books & Arts
Reluctant monarch
Brian McFarlane
11 November 2019
Cinema
|
The King
confirms David Michôd as a major director
Books & Arts
The lie that binds
Brian McFarlane
14 October 2019
Cinema
| Two very different films about family life
Books & Arts
Silent witnesses
Julie Rigg
26 September 2019
Cinema
| Ambitious storytelling from directors Rodd Rathjen, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego
Books & Arts
Another Palm Beach
Brian McFarlane
13 September 2019
Cinema
| Rachel Ward makes the most of a stellar cast
Books & Arts
Metamorphoses
Julie Rigg
13 September 2019
Cinema
| Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in
The Nightingale
Books & Arts
Predictable pile-ons
Julie Rigg
9 August 2019
Cinema
| The mob turns nasty in
Diego Maradona
and
The Final Quarter
Books & Arts
How Hollywood saw England
Brian McFarlane
1 August 2019
Books
| American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Books & Arts
On the road with the Ladies in Black
Sue Milliken
24 July 2019
Screenings across the world are attracting new friends for Australia, reports the film’s co-writer and producer
Books & Arts
Look what they’re doing to each other
Julie Rigg
6 July 2019
South Korean cinema maintains the rage with
Burning
and
Parasite
Books & Arts
The filmmaker’s gaze
Julie Rigg
28 June 2019
Cinema
| French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
Books & Arts
Paradise lost
Julie Rigg
26 June 2019
Cinema
|
Happy as Lazzaro
is the latest work from a highly original talent
Books & Arts
Adaptation and adaptability
Brian McFarlane
20 June 2019
Cinema
| To mine Shakespeare’s life and work successfully, filmmakers need to find something new
Books & Arts
Landscape with figures
Brian McFarlane
5 April 2019
Cinema
| Bill Nighy delivers a characteristically ambiguous performance in
Sometimes Always Never
Books & Arts
Fun while it lasted
Brian McFarlane
12 March 2019
Cinema
|
Stan & Ollie
looks at what came after the comedy
Recovered Lives
An Australian in silent Hollywood
Anne Rees
8 March 2019
Sylvia Breamer (1897–1943)
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