Books & Arts
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
International
15 March 2024
How India’s filmmakers have tracked the national mood
Cinema
15 January 2024
What One Life may achieve
Books & Arts
15 September 2023
Past Lives convincingly explores how the past lives on in the present
Books & Arts
29 August 2023
Politics wasn’t far away when Blood, Sweat & Tears brought the house down in Romania
Books & Arts
23 August 2023
Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland invites the viewer to pay close attention
Books & Arts
2 August 2023
Driving Madeleine reviewed
Books & Arts
4 July 2023
How Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman crossed the psychic gangway between Sydney and Hollywood
Books & Arts
27 April 2023
Two men, five books, one film
Essays & Reportage
24 April 2023
A busy industry was waiting impatiently for the revival of Australian feature film-making in the early 1970s
Books & Arts
22 November 2022
Rationalism and magical thinking contend in The Wonder
Essays & Reportage
21 November 2022
What did we learn about juries from the abrupt conclusion to last month’s trial of a ministerial staffer?
Essays & Reportage
3 November 2022
While Melburnians watch The Lost City of Melbourne, Sydneysiders debate Barangaroo
Essays & Reportage
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
From the archive
28 September 2022
What explains the Belgian novelist’s enduring popularity?
National Affairs
8 December 2021
Why has the National Film and Sound Archive suddenly found political favour?
Books & Arts
8 October 2021
Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda
Essays & Reportage
23 July 2021
It’s crunch time for Australia’s film and sound heritage
Books & Arts
7 July 2021
Molly Reynolds has documented a remarkable half-century career
Books & Arts
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
Books & Arts
11 April 2021
Cinema | Gary Oldman brings screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz to vivid life
Essays & Reportage
19 March 2021
Mark Baker recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
Books & Arts
10 March 2021
Cinema | Sam Neill stands out among a strong cast in Roger Michell’s Blackbird
Books & Arts
11 February 2021
Books | A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & Arts
15 December 2020
Cinema | Like all the best cinematic remakes, Rams stands on its own feet
Books & Arts
26 November 2020
Books | Film critic David Thomson offers an idiosyncratic take on some of cinema’s greatest directors
Books & Arts
5 November 2020
Books | Are Australians unusually prone to bad language?
Books & Arts
30 October 2020
Cinema | What went wrong with this update of Hitchcock’s classic?
Books & Arts
9 September 2020
Music | Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & Arts
29 July 2020
Cinema | A White, White Day reviewed, and film news from Brisbane and Melbourne