Culture

  • Reaching for a dark rose

    Pan’s Labyrinth
    Written & directed by Guillermo del Toro
    With Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez & Ariadna Gil
    In cinemas

  • On the box

    Sex 'n' Pop: Homosexuality & Pop Music — Hits the dance floor and traces the history of lesbian and gay emancipation. SBS, Friday, March 9, 10pm. Human Cargo — Set in Canada and central Africa, this takes an unflinching look at the world of

  • George W. Bush, 1946-2007

    Death of a President
    Written, produced & directed by Gabriel Range
    Hopscotch Films
    In cinemas from March 1

  • Working the airwaves

    Sydney has long endured right-wing shock jocks taking cash for comment from corporate sponsors, but a new radio program is providing a refreshing change with a focus on working families, strong communities and industrial rights.

  • From the miner

    I went down to the mine to black diamond country
    So the face of the earth would be warm comrade
    For years I silently waved a pick in this prison
    So that my children would smile comrade
    But there is no one smiling in our home

  • On the box

    Australia by Numbers: Sydney 2000 —Traces the birth and life of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs. Features interviews with Chicka Dixon, Gary Foley, Joyce Clague, Esther Carroll and Ray Carroll, combined with previously unseen archival

  • A tale of two rolling heads

    As a schoolboy, Maximilien Robespierre gave a speech of welcome for King Louis XVI in a 1775 coronation ceremony at his college in Paris. Eighteen years later, Louis was decapitated by Robespierre’s revolutionary government. What, asks Ruth Scurr in her biography of Robespierre, had turned the dutiful student into a regicide, whose name in conventional history has left behind “no trace but terror”?