‘It’s in Films That I Try to Say Everything’: Andrei Tarkovsky on Women, Spirituality and the Autonomy of the Filmmaker

A Stealthy Revolution: Tradition and Destabilisation in Ousmane Sembéne’s Moolaadé

Bearing Witness: Black Lives Matter Protests as Media, and Mediated, Event

Warwick Thornton and Kath Shelper on Making Samson and Delilah

A Dense Web of Relationships: How Film Culture Sustains the Screen Industries

Counterfeit Images: A History of Blackface on Australian Television

Alvin Purple

‘The Show Must Go On’: Transgression and the Carnivalesque in Moulin Rouge!

Entangled Lives: Trauma, Attachment and Survival in My Brilliant Friend and Pachinko

Sounding ‘Unstable Terrain’ in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock

Shame

Taking Shakespeare Slam-Dancing: Re-Viewing William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet

Fast and Furious Filmmaking: YouTube’s Prospects for Budding and Veteran Screen Content Producers

Reframing the Past: The Emotional Histories of Raoul Peck and Adam Curtis

War Stories: Media Coverage of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Out of the Frying Pan: Screen Australia and the Producer Offset

Stoking the Fire: The Rousing Fictions of RRR

Telling Our Love Story: AIDS, Adaptation and Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man

You and Me Against the World: Revisiting Puberty Blues

Poetry in Pieces: The Carnal and the Divine in Michael Lee’s The Mystical Rose

Intimacy and Betrayal: A Study Guide on The Hunting

World Without a Map: The Flattening Perspective of Jennifer Peedom’s River

Fish in and Out of Water: The Embodied Erotics of Class and Sport in Barracuda

Howling III: The Marsupials

Long Way Home: Ben Lawrence and Gabriel Shipton on Ithaka and the Campaign to Free Julian Assange

People Are the Opposite of Silence

‘Mixed Up with Other People’s Dreams’: The Tangled Webs of Time in Summer

Australian Gothic: To Have and To Hold

Hard Times and Ordinary Lives: Warehouse Work on the Big Screen

Hidden Treasures: Adolescent Adventures in Dora and the Lost City of Gold: A live-action reboot of the popular children’s TV series Dora the Explorer, James Bobin’s film ages up its protagonists and places them within a high-stakes adventure narrative. By pairing familiar characters with high school dramas and issues surrounding exploration and cultural sensitivity, the film provides plenty of conversation starters for an upper primary and junior secondary audience who may have enjoyed the show in younger years, writes Carolyn Leslie.

Alien in Australia: Science Fiction, Refugee Politics and The Stranger

Suburban Fragments: Community and Bricolage in Tim Barretto’s Bassendream

Hitting Home: Violence and Morality in Mr Inbetween

Cinema’s New Waves: An Interview with Albie Thoms

I’m Not There: The Future of the Musical Biopic

Romance, Fantasy and Female Sexuality in Feeling Sexy

Flies on the Locker-room Walls: The Managed Candour of Making Their Mark

Dreams and Nightmares: The Animated Worlds of Satoshi Kon

The Simpsons: Culture, Class and Popular TV

At the Threshold of Revival: Australian Cinema and the Moment of 2000 Weeks