Film

Bad Girl to haunt US college night owls
There's more than one way to grab a cinema audience in the US. Even if its 10.30 on a Thursday…

The nation's archivists - What do we do with what we're saving? - Part one.
The Digital Directions Symposium in Canberra unearthed some wonderful ways of engaging users in the gallery, library, archive and museum…

The nation's archivists - What do we do with what we're saving? - Part two
The users of national collections are more than users - they have the political power to save and resource the…

Collective and personal - prose, screenwriting and the heart of life
Let's talk about personal writing from a screen perspective. it's all about revelation, hunger and professional discipline.

What's On: Spierigs + Fassbinder + new films & fests + Screen Forever
Thor Ragnarok is directed by Taika Waititi, the imp of New Zealand, headlining the long list of cinema treasures around…

Cultural participation: the USA versus Australia
Within a matter of months, two major research studies have been released on cultural participation. How different are they, and…

Podcasts galore, weaponised in the war against intellectual extinction
What are the crucial (and entertaining) podcasts which inspire Australian film tragics? Here are some of the most substantial.

National Ratings from Sunday 22 October 2017 - the whole batch
The Ex-PM brings the ABC up from awful to erk, while Ten drinks cheap champagne from the shoes of disappointed…

Walkleys 2017 - journalism evolves towards rich and strange
How does investigative journalism and excellent reporting adapt to digital times? Here are some hints from The Walkleys.

Screen Forever - Meet the buyers, guess what they have in their pockets
Bread and butter humans at Screen Forever in the vital Meet the Buyer sessions.