On Screen: March 2022 – French Film Festival
Lynden Barber finds corruption and lost illusions a major theme in this year’s Alliance Francaise French Film Festival.
March 16, 2022
Lynden Barber
Lynden Barber is a film and TV commentator of three decades standing and a screen studies teacher. His credits include reviewing for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Guardian, and the artistic directorship of the Sydney Film Festival. He has reviewed films for Limelight since 2007.
Articles by Lynden Barber
On Screen: February 2022
Lynden Barber finds Australian elements increasingly popping up in streaming TV.
February 24, 2022
Review: The Duke (Roger Michell)
A British true story captures the spirit of the great Ealing comedies.
February 21, 2022
On Screen: January 2022
Lynden Barber surveys the TV fashion for holiday stories, where exotic settings add some visual appeal, and characters are pushed out of their comfort zones.
January 24, 2022
On Screen: December 2021
Lynden Barber surveys some of the top films in cinema over the holiday period.
December 17, 2021
Review: Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
Kenneth Branagh’s evocation of his life as a boy during Northern Ireland’s Troubles is a triumph.
December 17, 2021
Review: The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
Featuring an exquisite performance by Renate Reinsve, this romantic drama is a complex tragicomedy.
November 22, 2021
On Screen: cinema releases and streaming teleseries from November 2021
In November's On Screen column, Lynden Barber recommends a Tom Hanks maritime thriller, a Netflix drama on domestic abuse and a crazily scattergun Romanian film satire.
November 19, 2021
On Screen: streaming teleseries from October 2021
In this month's column, Lynden Barber recommends two police series and the ABC's drama on the 2019–2020 Australian bush fire emergency.
October 18, 2021
On Screen: streaming teleseries from September 2021
In this month's column, Lynden Barber surveys a beautiful yet brutal slave drama and a well-crafted thriller.
September 21, 2021
On Screen: streaming and free-to-air from August 2021
Lynden Barber surveys a trio of female-led stories in long-form television, both streaming and free-to-air.
August 11, 2021
On Screen: streaming and free-to-air teleseries from July 2021
Lynden Barber surveys British heritage TV and the continuing fascination with the world of Jane Austen.
July 21, 2021
Review: Buckley’s Chance (Tim Brown)
This outback family adventure story turns the Crocodile Dundee fish-out-of-water story inside out.
June 28, 2021