The first day of the location shoot for our film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Julius Caesar is now just over seven weeks away. We have found our location and we are putting together our crew. BBC Four's funding more
I have been reading the late Tony Richardson's memoir Long Distance Runner. (I know I promised a Julius Caesar update, but that waits on a RSC press release - tomorrow, I hope.) It is not clear whether Richardson's more
We cried, we cheered and we clapped (a bit), and then we cried some more. At 11.30 in the morning we set out with Nicholas, Kate and friends, plus a few enemies, on the wonderful journey that was (and, in more
To BFI Southbank later for all eight hours of the Channel 4/Primetime version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. I've said before that the stage production, seen over a Saturday in the more
Tomorrow Arts Council England and the BBC announce the projects to be funded for this summer's exciting digital arts project The Space (see my earlier post Make it new). I did some initial consultancy for The Space but more
To the V&A for a Sunday afternoon screening of an archival recording of Michael Grandage's 2004-05 production of Schiller's Don Carlos. This came courtesy of the invaluable National Video Archive of Performance, which for the past more
So why is Randall Wright's 90-minute documentary Lucian Freud: Painted Life (on iPlayer until 25 February) the BBC's best film about a visual artist for many a year? The compelling subject helps of course, as do the remarkable more
Yes, I've been super-busy - and, yes, I feel guilty about not posting here for nearly a fortnight. So let me construct a post about a few of the things we're involved in and also about one or two new more
For a project about the First World War to be released later in the year (when I'll blog it), I have been filming in Belgium and France. The weather was bitterly cold and our car got caught in a scary blizzard, more
