Talented Australians have been winning Oscars for decades. So why don't we make better films? Michael Bodey reports Movie marathon
This week's reviewed authors include Martin Indyk, Fernando Baez, Jimmy Carter and Bel Schenk Book reviews
Art galleries and libraries have had to come to terms with the new order of the internet, writes Christopher Allen Museum and labyrinth
This week's reviewed films: The Reader, The International, Rrozen River Film reviews
The creative spirit of the famed Ballets Russes is reborn in a new production ofFirebird, writes Michelle Potter Phoenix rising
A powerful semi-autobiographical novel set against tumult in the Balkans captures war's random violation of children's lives, writes Natasha Cica Roar at innocence lost
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"MY friends moved, and I didn't want to be the last person left in Leipzig," says the softly spoken Sasa Stanisic, explaining why he now...
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Roar at innocence lost
"MY friends moved, and I didn't want to be the last person left in Leipzig," says the softly spoken Sasa Stanisic, explaining why he now...
Next stop perdition
FEW predicted the calamity of the global financial crisis, yet some new films in coming months appear uncannily prescient.
A touch of Madness
THE Liberty of Norton Folgate sounds like one of those Ealing comedies made in the 1950s or '60s starring Peter Sellers or George Cole a...
Brazilians boom under the influence of the greats
Sonantes
Sonantes
Six Degrees/Fuse
Binario
Binario
Far Out/Planet
SAMBA and bossa nova tend to dominate mo...
The clown prince of suburbia
Graeme Blundell ON the bus between shows, Barry Humphries invented Dame Edna Everage.
Binoche on her toes for new role
Rosalie Higson A STIFF breeze off Sydney Harbour couldn't dim the luminosity of French film star Juliette Binoche, although it did take a posse of styl...
Museum and labyrinth
HAVE you forgotten who declared "war is a continuation of diplomacy by other means"? Was it Bismarck?
February contents
Contents of the February 2009 edition of the Australian Literary Review
A touch of Madness
THE Liberty of Norton Folgate sounds like one of those Ealing comedies made in the 1950s or '60s starring Peter Sellers or George Cole a...
Man behaving badly
"SERIOUS sport is about hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in watching violence," wrote George...
