Sylvia Lawson Sylvia Lawson i(A25711 works by)
Born: Established: 12 Nov 1932 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 6 Nov 2017 Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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1 Untitled Sylvia Lawson , single work review
— Review of Heaven, in a Way Rodney Hall , 1970 selected work poetry
1 Here and Now Sylvia Lawson , single work review
— Review of The Tall Man Tony Krawitz , 2011 single work film/TV ; Toomelah Ivan Sen , 2011 single work film/TV ; Burning Man Jonathan Teplitzky , 2011 single work film/TV

'TWO of the best films made in Australia, in this and most other years, are now finishing short runs at marginal sites in our cities. Many who care for cinema per se, and others who see these stories as central in the landscape, are likely to miss them altogether. They can be sought on DVD, but they repay the big-screen impact and should be allowed more of it, with more talk around them, more energetic promotion.' (Introduction)          

1 The Choice That Matters Sylvia Lawson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2016;

— Review of Goldstone Ivan Sen , 2016 single work film/TV
1 Everyone’s Business Sylvia Lawson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , June 2016;

— Review of Chasing Asylum : A Filmmaker's Story Eva Orner , 2016 single work autobiography
1 Hindesight, 2016 Sylvia Lawson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , February 2016;

— Review of Looking for Grace Sue Brooks , 2015 single work film/TV
'Sylvia Lawson views Looking for Grace through the lens of John Hinde’s classic analysis of Australian film'
1 Newsfront Revisited Sylvia Lawson , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2015;

— Review of Newsfront Phillip Noyce , Bob Ellis , David Elfick , Philippe Mora , Anne Brooksbank , 1978 single work film/TV
'Philip Noyce’s 1978 feature was an antidote to the tasteful costume dramas of the reviving Australian film industry, writes Sylvia Lawson'
1 Archibald, Jules François (1856-1919) Sylvia Lawson , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : A 2014; (p. 23-24)
1 Words for John Flaus Sylvia Lawson , 2014 single work
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , October no. 72 2014;
1 This Is How It Was Sylvia Lawson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2014;

— Review of Message from Mungo 2014 single work film/TV
1 His Country, and Ours Sylvia Lawson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2014;

— Review of Charlie's Country Rolf De Heer , 2013 single work film/TV

'In Charlie’s Country, there’s a key moment that’s both gross and grotesque. David Gulpilil’s Charlie, confronting the admonitions of a police officer, ejects a set of false teeth and says, “I can’t eat with them, I can’t eat without them, I’m starving.” And indeed he looks it; lithe and active, but a fair bag of bones. Sometime, there’ll be a dentist visiting the community. With his mate Black Pete (Peter Djigirr, remembered from Ten Canoes) Charlie goes off shooting buffalo; they’re in search of real sustenance, relief from the junk food in the local store. The rifle, the carcass, and even the carefully crafted wooden spear are confiscated. Charlie’s funds in the ATM, casually disbursed around the place, run out. Relations with local police seem, at the outset, to be made of amiable ritual banter; but things will turn ugly.' (Introduction)          

1 Never Believe the Trailer Sylvia Lawson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , May 2014;

— Review of Healing Craig Monahan , Alison Nisselle , 2014 single work film/TV
1 Heads above Water Sylvia Lawson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , April 2014;

— Review of Tracks Robyn Davidson , Marion Nelson , 2013 single work film/TV
1 Not so Much the Tale as Its Telling Sylvia Lawson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2014;

— Review of Utopia John Pilger , 2013 single work film/TV
1 y separately published work icon The Back of Beyond Sylvia Lawson , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2013 Z1924352 2013 single work criticism

'The Back of Beyond celebrates the life and times of Australia’s best known outback mail man Tom Kruse MBE. Every fortnight he battled isolation, heat, sand dunes and floods to deliver mail and supplies to the families along the 517 kilometre Birdsville Track in central Australia.

'Representing the complex interrelations of the multicultural community and their environs, the film is considered by many to be one of Australia’s premier films, and is an exemplary representation of 1950s Australian transformational culture.' (Publication blurb)

1 Why He Cared so Much Sylvia Lawson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2013;

— Review of Fallout Lawrence Johnson , 2013 single work film/TV ; The Darkside Warwick Thornton , 2013 single work film/TV
1 Silence Made Visible Sylvia Lawson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , November 2013;

— Review of Mystery Road Ivan Sen , 2013 single work film/TV

'Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road is a Western which observes the conventions of its genre: conflict of law and lawlessness in a remote setting; visible wide landscapes; a central character, the man who rides into town with a mission, a man who holds experience and emotion in reserve; a climactic shoot-out; laconic dialogue all round. Seen from behind, Aaron Pedersen’s Jay Swan has a John Wayne kind of walk; and this film, like many Westerns, looks outward across a realm of historical loss.' (Introduction)            

1 Big World Sylvia Lawson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2013;

— Review of The Turning Tim Winton , 2013 selected work film/TV
Also reviews : 

GravityBlue JasmineStories We Tell and The Act of Killing

1 Losing the War Sylvia Lawson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2013;

— Review of The Rocket Kim Mordaunt , 2012 single work film/TV
1 Magnetism and Magic Sylvia Lawson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , August 2013;

— Review of Selective Memory : A Life in Film Sue Milliken , 2013 single work autobiography

'Sylvia Lawson reviews Sue Milliken’s account of a career in Australian film-making' 

1 Between One Geography and Another Sylvia Lawson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2013;

— Review of Satellite Boy Catriona McKenzie , 2012 single work film/TV ; The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann , Craig Pearce , 2013 single work film/TV
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