Impossibly remote in many ways, the late fifties are portrayed with verve and nuance in John O’Grady’s bestselling novel, writes Brian McFarlane
01 May 12 Comments (0)
Boring is good
Margin Call is a reminder that finance is both necessary and dangerous, writes John Quiggin
08 Mar 12 Comments (0)Fragments of a modern Iran
Sylvia Lawson reviews A Separation and The Artist and pays tribute to producer Martin Williams
07 Mar 12 Comments (1)Along the pot-holed track
Visiting Alice Springs opens up other journeys captured on film and in prose and poetry, writes Sylvia Lawson in this extract from her new book
16 Feb 12 Comments (2)Going to the movies, writing about the movies
Brian McFarlane on the life and work of the formidable American critic, Pauline Kael
15 Feb 12 Comments (0)Power play
Sylvia Lawson on Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and this year’s Australian film awards
08 Feb 12 Comments (0)
Real-life melodrama
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
Comments (0)Dissolving borders
Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes Sylvia Lawson
15 Dec 11 Comments (1)
Rising to the operatic
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Eye of the Storm and enters a controversy about Red Dog
05 Oct 11 Comments (2)
Things that cinema can do
Sylvia Lawson reviews Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
28 Jul 11 Comments (0)The ages of Gielgud
Brian McFarlane reviews a perceptive biography of actor-director-manager John Gielgud
07 Jul 11 Comments (0)
Blurred boundaries
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews a new book about Australian documentaries, and two recent cinema releases
13 Jun 11 Comments (0)
