BFI Video has this week released Jack Hazan's 1974 feature about David Hockney and his circle, A Bigger Splash. Available as a dual format DVD and Blu-ray, this fascinating and complex film has never looked better, more
In Sunday's Observer Tim Adams wrote a fascinating article about the the Picasso show at the Tate Gallery in 1960. Suggesting that this was the world's first 'art block-buster', he explored 'the moment when Picasso, and modernism, finally arrived in more
To BFI Southbank for a most engaging day exploring small-screen adaptations of Charles Dickens. Three sessions throughout Saturday featured a host of fascinating clips and a number of engaging guests. In the morning, writer, curator and co-conceiver of more
To the Old Vic to sit with Clare in two eye-wateringly expensive seats to watch an immaculate performance of Michael Frayn's Noises Off. The back-stage comic complications, combined with the high-end prices (top whack £85 a seat - more
Here's a little campaign that is well worth supporting: Save the 35 Ken Russell BBC Films. Or, as the Facebook page (above) also - and more accurately - argues, Free the 35 BBC Films of Ken Russell. more
At the end of each year our friend and colleague Michael Jackson - formerly Chief Executive of Channel 4 and now living and working in the United States - compiles a list of films he's discovered and appreciated in the more
As I have blogged previously, the Reading Room initiative from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is terrific. This makes available for reading online a selection of the museum's past catalogues. The 'flippingbook' format is more
Although I have no easy way of checking, there must be hundreds of films - and quite likely thousands - that feature David Hockney. By the end of the week, with the opening of David Hockney RA: A more
Yes, my friends, this is another Dickens-themed post (following on from the recent What larks and The film of the films of the books). Or at least the start of it is, because across the jump there's more
Headline: while The Mystery of Edwin Drood, part one of which we saw on BBC Two tonight, has much to recommend it, the television treat of the evening - and indeed most certainly of the year to more