Sons and others

Sylvia Lawson reviews The Other Son, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Tabu

30 May 13 | Comments (0)

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)

Taking flight

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

04 Apr 13 | Comments (1)

The man who wasn’t there

Sylvia Lawson on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House

19 Mar 13 | Comments (2)

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)

Some kind of real world

Sylvia Lawson reviews This Must Be the Place and Le Havre

26 Apr 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)

Power play

Sylvia Lawson on Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and this year’s Australian film awards

08 Feb 12 | Comments (0)

Old-fashioned politics

Sylvia Lawson reviews The Iron Lady and The Ides of March

12 Jan 12 | 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)

Here and now

Sylvia Lawson reviews Toomelah, The Tall Man and Burning Man

07 Dec 11 | Comments (0)

Soaring above it all

Sylvia Lawson reviews Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris

27 Oct 11 | Comments (0)