Gentle, friendly face of Indonesia and Islam

WHEN the former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid succumbed to a long battle with kidney disease and diabetes, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for seven days of national mourning. For many millions of Indonesia's 240 million citizens, the mourning is very personal.

Master of the universe

In Avatar, film sorcery has finally caught up with James Cameron's imagination.

For better or for worse

Gloria Swanson famously purred: 'I am big, it's the pictures that got small.' More than a half-century later Garry Maddox finds all is not lost.

LETTERS

Cinema chains let down the disabled

Screening at selected cinemas

Independent Australian films are locked out of cinemas by Hollywood, a documentary claims. Paul Kalina reports.

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Chacun Son Cinema

Why film critics are more dangerous than Godzilla

I have to make an admission. I have been making feature films for 29 years and have never been to the Sydney Film Festival. And I've never watched Citizen Kane, either. At least, not all the way through.