COVID scars
Even JobKeeper 3.0 may not be enough
May 2020
Arts & Letters
Consolations in isolation: ‘The Platform’ and ‘Free in Deed’
What is the future of cinema without cinemas?
The Platform
May 2020
America’s imperfect angels: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Post Black Lives Matter, the hit musical already feels like a souvenir from a vanished pre-Trump America
Milk it: ‘First Cow’
Kelly Reichardt’s restrained frontier film considers the uneasy problems of money and resources
A unitary theory of cuts
The Morrison government is using the COVID-19 crisis to devastate the public service, the ABC, the arts and tertiary education
What lessons will we learn from the virus?
Hope is essential, but optimism can be deadly
The ripple effect: Cable Ties’ ‘Far Enough’
A big year turned on its head for the Melbourne band
Another month of plague
Voices from the coronavirus outbreak
‘Fathoms: The World in the Whale’ by Rebecca Giggs
The Australian writer’s lyrical consideration of our relationship with whales is a new and ambitious kind of nature writingAmerica’s imperfect angels: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Post Black Lives Matter, the hit musical already feels like a souvenir from a vanished pre-Trump America
What are the odds?: Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’
The Australian philosopher’s rational exploration of existential risk is bracing but ultimately hopeful
Broadmeadows
Poetry from the author of ‘The Boat’
The death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
Re-watching the films of the most successful screen actor of the 20th centuryAmerica’s imperfect angels: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Post Black Lives Matter, the hit musical already feels like a souvenir from a vanished pre-Trump AmericaThe death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
Re-watching the films of the most successful screen actor of the 20th century
Her too: ‘The Assistant’
Melbourne-born, New York–based filmmaker Kitty Green’s powerfully underplayed portrait of Hollywood’s abusive culture
Properly British: Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’
A multicultural vision underscores the acclaimed British satirist’s endearing Dickensian rompMilk it: ‘First Cow’
Kelly Reichardt’s restrained frontier film considers the uneasy problems of money and resources
The summer’s tale: On Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet
Addressing climate crisis and global pandemic, the concluding book in Ali Smith’s quartet reminds us that an ending is also a beginning
Political maverick
Joel Fitzgibbon is starting to resemble Barnaby Joyce in his deliberate departure from the political mainstream
MIFF 68 ½ at home
Films by Kelly Reichardt, Ulrike Ottinger, Ja’Tovia Gary and Djibril Diop Mambéty captivate, despite a radically different festival format
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