The adaptive eye

The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane

02 May 13 | Comments (0)

Tales of the unexpected

The world’s largest refugee settlement is now telling its own stories, writes Clar Ni Chonghaile

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Old medium, new century

By the end of the year, Australia’s cinema industry will no longer be a film industry. Jock Given looks at what this means for storytelling on the big screen

30 Apr 13 | Comments (2)

Such a bloody wonderful place

Sylvia Lawson reviews John Hughes’s documentary about the poet Judith Wright, and Pablo Larraín’s No

28 Apr 13 | Comments (1)

Ken Loach’s dreamland

The renowned director’s new film, which uses the socialist mood of 1945 to assail the world Margaret Thatcher created, is bad history and worse politics, says David Hayes

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Taking flight

Sylvia Lawson reviews Rust and Bone and looks at the continuing controversy over Zero Dark Thirty

04 Apr 13 | Comments (1)

Gripped tight

New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson

27 Feb 13 | Comments (0)

Inside or out?

New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson

02 Jan 13 | Comments (0)

A cautious kind of hope

New cinema releases reviewed by Sylvia Lawson

29 Nov 12 | Comments (0)

Vast landscapes in tumult

Sylvia Lawson on Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace and the French film-maker Chris Marker

06 Sep 12 | Comments (0)

Living places

Sylvia Lawson reviews Elena and Where Do We Go Now? and Hysteria, and pays tribute to Paul Willemen

25 Jul 12 | Comments (0)

Small armies

A Sydney Film Festival postscript from Sylvia Lawson

28 Jun 12 | Comments (1)

Rough passages

Sylvia Lawson at the Sydney Film Festival

14 Jun 12 | Comments (0)

Unwasted moments

Sylvia Lawson reviews Silent Souls, Wish You Were Here and Love Letters from Teralba Road

30 May 12 | Comments (0)

How weird does this mob still seem?

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)

The desire of the crowd

Iain Topliss revisits Marcel Carné’s classic, Les Enfants du Paradis

27 Apr 12 | Comments (1)

Some kind of real world

Sylvia Lawson reviews This Must Be the Place and Le Havre

26 Apr 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)