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Makeshift screens, censored films and ASIO: how the Melbourne International Film Festival began 70 years ago

Featured picture: Author provided. On the Australia Day weekend in 1952, a group of die-hard film buffs put on a film festival. They had selected...

Sunday essay: how a ‘gonzo’ press gang forged the Ned Kelly legend

Destruction of the Kelly Gang. Drawn by Thomas Carrington during the siege. State Library of Victoria Washington Post publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously declared that journalism...

Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock’s famous fright film broke all the rules

Image: Psycho/IMDB November 1959. Film director Alfred Hitchcock is at his commercial and critical peak after the successes of Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest (1959). So what does he do...