The magnificently messy ‘House of Cards’
Culture / Film & Television / Television
The show that made Netflix a major player comes to a satisfying and ludicrous end
The magnificently messy ‘House of Cards’
Culture / Film & Television / Television
The show that made Netflix a major player comes to a satisfying and ludicrous end
Orson Welles’s ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and Morgan Neville’s ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’
Culture / Film & Television / Film
The auteur’s messy mockumentary and the documentary that seeks to explain it are imperfect but better together
Twisted sisters: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’
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Sentimentality ruins the magic of this otherwise unsettling and actively cruel film
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Reflections on weddings after the legislation of marriage equality – an extract
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➊ The magnificently messy ‘House of Cards’
The show that made Netflix a major player comes to a satisfying and ludicrous end
➋ Orson Welles’s ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and Morgan Neville’s ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’
The auteur’s messy mockumentary and the documentary that seeks to explain it are imperfect but better together
➌ ‘The Old Man and the Gun’ and the outlaw Robert Redford
David Lowery’s new film pays too much tribute to the Sundance Kid
➍ Eddie Perfect goes to Broadway
The Australian composer has two musicals – ‘Beetlejuice’ and ‘King Kong’ – opening in New York
‘Killing Commendatore’ by Haruki Murakami
Art, music and mystery abound in the Japanese author’s latest novel
Inside the hunt for the Black Saturday arsonist – an extract
‘The End’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The ‘My Struggle’ series arrives at a typically exhausting conclusion
The alluring world of Liane Moriarty
Australia’s bestselling author isn’t interested in repeating herself
‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk
Offbeat intrigue from a Booker Prize winner
‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’ by Rick Morton
A social affairs reporter turns the pen on himself
A bigger, shinier cage: Julia Holter’s ‘Aviary’
A classically schooled composer seeks shelter from the cacophony of modern life
The Monthly music wrap: October 2018
Charli XCX explores pop’s frontiers, new releases from Kim Petras and Robyn, and soundtracks to ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Suspiria’
The queen of reinvention turns her attention to the works of ABBA
Leonard Bernstein: show tunes and symphonies
Centenary celebrations highlight the composer’s broad ambitions and appeal
Low’s ‘Double Negative’: studies in slow transformation
Twelve albums in, the Minnesota three-piece can still surprise in their unique way
The Queen is dead; long live the Queen
The personal is political in ‘The Insult’
Ziad Doueiri’s tense film excavates Lebanon’s violent past
Lady Gaga mesmerises in the uneven ‘A Star Is Born’
After a beguiling first act, director Bradley Cooper struggles to maintain momentum
‘Custody’ finds the terror in the everyday
Director Xavier Legrand and actor Denis Ménochet discuss making their acclaimed thriller
A man and his bear: Marc Forster’s ‘Christopher Robin’
Adults will find this new tale of Winnie the Pooh surprisingly moving
A golden age of popular Indigenous storytelling
Against the blinding whiteness on Australian stage and screens
‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’: a return to quintessential Gus Van Sant
The veteran director discusses his unconventional biopic and eclectic career
‘American Masters’ at the National Gallery of Australia
The best of the US, drawn from Canberra’s own collection
‘How are you today’ at the Ian Potter Museum of Art
Audio messages from Manus Island reveal what it sounds like to live in limbo
‘A Lightness of Spirit is the Measure of Happiness’ at ACCA
Ten new works unsettle preconceptions about contemporary Indigenous art
The artistic revival at Papunya Tjupi Arts
Women painters are bringing the focus back to the birthplace of the Western Desert movement
‘MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art’
An eye candy-laden, educational treasure hunt of an exhibition
‘John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New’ at the MCA, Sydney
The celebrated bark painter’s ethos guides this retrospective exhibition
Geoff Sobelle is making a house a ‘Home’ at Sydney Festival
The creator of this participatory performance is keen for the audience to add their own stories
‘Watt’ at the Melbourne International Arts Festival
Beckett’s knotty novel is masterfully interpreted for stage by Barry McGovern
‘The Harp in the South’ at Sydney Theatre Company
Kate Mulvany’s adaptation proves that Ruth Park’s epic endures
‘Blackie Blackie Brown’ at STC and Malthouse Theatre
Playwright Nakkiah Lui’s latest delivers comedy and carnage at a bracing pace
Technology intensifies the Brechtian in a recent series of productions
‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’: history is an infinite loop
The Sydney Theatre Company production brings Brecht’s parable closer to home
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company is bringing light and shade to Australia
A conversation with members of the Italian company ahead of their tour to Brisbane
Bangarra’s latest production explores Aboriginal Australians’ sophisticated farming practices
Dance and the digital: An interview with Wayne McGregor
The Sydney Festival-bound show’s choreographer loves mixing the body with technology
‘Bennelong’ by Bangarra Dance Theatre
Sydney Opera House (touring Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne)
Body Electric’s jazz ballet for adults
The best of Australian arts 2014
Critics give their picks for the year’s top ten
Two worlds at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
The consumption of space, land and habitat is Australia’s focus at the world’s pre-eminent architecture event
A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people
Beautiful on the outside … the tragedy of Bennelong Point
Brutalist masterpiece or harbour eyesore? Sydney’s Sirius building faces an uncertain future
The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it is
Durbach Block Jaggers is a practice in argument
Victoria Lee takes on the Victoria’s Secret runway
‘The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier’ at the National Gallery of Victoria
‘Modern Love: Fashion visionaries from the FIDM Museum LA’
At the Bendigo Art Gallery
The iconic Australian brand has a new co-owner
Romance was born - ‘The Oracle’, 2011
Unfinished business: A short story
Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?
Hamish Hamilton; $32.99
The pencil and the damage done
The perverse attraction of autobiographical fiction
‘Golden Boys’ by Sonya Hartnett
Penguin; $29.99
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr
HarperCollins; $29.99
Barron Field and the myth of terra nullius
How a minor poet made a major historical error
Clive James’ ‘Sentenced to Life’ and Les Murray’s ‘Waiting for the Past’
A century of Dylan Thomas
Meeting Ko Un
'Radar' by Kevin Brophy and Nathan Curnow
Peter Steele (1939–2012)