Last updated: October 2, 2017
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Journey into a nightmare

141025 TWAM EMBARGO FOR TWAM 25 OCT 2014 NO REUSE FEE APPLIES LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 14: Naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough is photographed for the Times on September 14, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Robert Wilson/Contour by Getty Images) Picture: Captioned As
David Attenborough
David Attenborough battled malaria to film a rare great ape in Borneo. Then his guide turned his gun on it.

All the trimmings

A scene from documentary film, Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible Image supplied - The Age, Culture, Melbourne, BILCOCK: Pic of film editor Jill Billcock in her editing studio in Fitzroy. 8 October 2002. Pic by EDDIE JIM/ejz. ejz021008.001.001.jpg
PHILIPPA HAWKER
Jill Bilcock knows what she wants — the ‘innovative, unusual and visually extraordinary’ — and shuns the ‘bogus’.

‘Men are more exiting to watch’

This image released by Fox Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, left, and Steve Carell in a scene from "Battle of the Sexes." (Melinda Sue Gordon/Fox Searchlight Pictures via AP)
DAVID STRATTON
The jaw-dropping chauvinism shown by men in public positions, as seen in Battle of the Sexes, seems almost unbelievable.

The proof is in the painting — or is it?

Brett Whiteley on Trial, a book
Patricia Anderson
A courtroom thriller, the case of the suspected fake Whiteleys electrified the art world and is still debated.

Forever groovy

A new movie about the Australian band The Go-Betweens will perform in Hobart. For Pulse
stephen romei
This beautifully shot, thoughtful documentary has sent me to listen again to The Go-Betweens and their contemporaries.

Deep Throat’s role ‘over-hyped’

** FILE ** In this Aug. 30, 1976, file photo Mark Felt appears on CBS' "Face The Nation" in Washington. Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president, died Thursday Dec. 18, 2008. He was 95. (AP Photo/File)
Boer Deng
A new Watergate movie celebrating the role of the world’s most famous source has drawn criticism from Woodward and Bernstein.

Heart of resilience

Gabin Verdet and Galatea Bellugi in a scene from the film, Heal The Living Image supplied
Philippa Hawker
French filmmaker Katell Quillevere explores the way a single tragedy links many lives.

King Jr hopes for dad’s magic

This cover image released by Scribner shows "Sleeping Beauties," a novel by Stephen King and Owen King. (Scribner via AP)
Stephen Romei
When Stephen King published It, his second son, Owen, was aged nine, a bit too young for a novel in which a mad clown murders teenagers.

Hanging Rock truth rarely told

Hanging Rock
SIMONE FOX KOOB
It’s inextricably linked with the tale of schoolgirls vanishing on a picnic, but there’s another side to its story we never talk about.

Beatriz trumped

Salma Hayek in a scene from the film, Beatriz At Dinner Image supplied by Roadshow
DAVID STRATTON
Beatriz at Dinner frames its polit­ical commentary in the confines of a meal during which personalities bitterly clash.

Conjurer to the stars

Edith Head
GLYNIS TRAILL-NASH
Directors the likes of Alfred Hitchcock turned to Hollywood designer Edith Head to help create their characters.

The face of the future

RYAN GOSLING, HARRISON FORD and Director DENIS VILLENEUVE
Philippa Hawker
Denis Villeneuve, in his sequel to the iconic science fiction hit Blade Runner, ‘felt a bit like a vandal who came into the church’ but had the keys.

A dignified rage

James Baldwin Sitting Smoking A Cigarette
Stephen Romei
The real narrator of I Am Not Your Negro is James Baldwin, speaking 50 years ago — and as relevant today.

Q&A: ‘This is sacrosanct’

TWAM 23 SEP 2017
Megan Lehmann
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders knows he’s going to cop flak for his TV adaptation of Australian classic Wake in Fright.

Why tennis doesn’t work in film

Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe.and Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg.
Kevin Maher
Movies about tennis have never worked; Borg vs. McEnroe isn’t too embarrassing, so that’s a start.

From the east with love

A scene from Anthropoid, with Cillian Murphy.
Philippa Hawker
An Australian’s passion for Czech and Slovak cinema delivers a unique film festival.

Thoughtful director’s final cut

Cris Jones
Philippa Hawker
To producer Melanie Coombs, filmmaker Cris Jones, who died suddenly this month, “was the best-read person I ever met”.

Nationalistic film airs in Sydney

Top Ryde shopping centre Event Cinema movie theatre was hired by a Chinese-Australian businessman to air a Communist propaganda film Wolf Warrior, where Chinese govt supporters and nationalists attended, and stood following the movie to sing the Chinese anthem. Supplied
PRIMROSE RIORDAN
China’s Wolf Warriors II has aired in Australia at a private screening where attendees sang the national anthem | WATCH

Frightfully ugly endurance test

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from "mother!" (Paramount Pictures and Protozoa Pictures via AP)
DAVID STRATTON
It’s been billed as a new classic in horror, but Darren Aronofsky’s new film mother! is pretentious and overwrought.

Love match

(FILES): This file photo taken on June 08, 2017 shows actress Emma Stone attending the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala honoring Diane Keaton at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Oscar-winning Emma Stone capped a perfect 12 months on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 as she knocked Jennifer Lawrence off the top spot on Forbes' 2017 list of the world's highest-paid actresses. Stone, 28, who won best actress for her role as a struggling performer in "La La Land," made $26 million in pre-tax earnings in the year up to June, according to the magazine's prestigious annual chart. / AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck
Philippa Hawker
Despite the pressures of portraying tennis icon Billie Jean King, Emma Stone found much she could identify with.
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