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July, 2022
Olivier Assayas revisits his 1996 film in a delicious palindromic limited series, in which a frazzled director remakes his ‘Irma Vep’ film into a TV series
July, 2022
The American novelist Hernan Diaz audits the silence of great wealth in a story of four parts presented as novel, autobiography, memoir and diary
July, 2022
Writer/director Alex Garland’s latest film is an unsubtle but ambitious pastoral horror, mixing the Christian with the classical
June, 2022
Battle lines: Terence Davies’ ‘Benediction’
The English director’s latest film, exploring the life of war poet Siegfried Sassoon, possesses both a visual and a moral clarity
June, 2022
Cannes Film Festival 2022 highlights: part two
Un Certain Regard’s outstanding selection included Davy Chou’s ‘Return to Seoul’, Hlynur Palmason’s ‘Godland’ and Thomas M. Wright’s ‘The Stranger’
June, 2022
Bodily resistance: ‘Jurrungu Ngan-ga’
The new dance theatre work by Marrugeku interrogates Australia’s history as a nation of jailers
June, 2022
John Darnielle’s ‘Devil House’
The Mountain Goats frontman’s diffuse third novel interrogates the true crime craze
June, 2022
Spirit moves: ‘How to Live (After You Die)’
Lynette Wallworth’s one-woman show, exploring her past in a Pentecostal cult, continues her lifelong search for meaning
June, 2022
‘An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life’
Alienations and fantasies of escape unify the stories in Australian author Paul Dalla Rosa’s debut collection