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Making the private public: ‘The Seventies’ by Michelle Arrow
This new history traces how the decade’s redefined politics shaped modern Australia
A showcase of the unexceptional: the 2019 Berlin Film Festival
This year’s offerings did little to arrest the event’s apparent decline
Hell hath no fury: Karyn Kusama’s ‘Destroyer’
Nicole Kidman confronts in this LA crime thriller
Rats, heroes and Kevin Rudd’s ‘The PM Years’
This memoir answers some questions about his deposal and return but raises others
The Australian artist opens up on the eve of a retrospective exhibition
Streaming highlights: February 2019
Adolescent antiheroes in ‘Sex Education’ and ‘Pen15’, Eric Bana shines darkly in ‘Dirty John’, new ‘Counterpart’, and the irreverent charm of ‘Russian Doll’
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half
A French Western? Jacques Audiard on ‘The Sisters Brothers’
The celebrated director explains how he made a Hollywood staple his own
Clicks, plinks, hoots and thuds: Matmos’s ‘Plastic Anniversary’
The American experimental duo embrace the ‘sounds’ of a ubiquitous material
‘Zebra and Other Stories’ by Debra Adelaide
Difficult-to-grasp characters populate this new collection