The past week has been particularly rewarding for those of us who follow the writings on film of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. To start with, The Criterion Collection released the opening (embedded below) of a video essay about more
In the diary next week are two Hamlets. On Monday afternoon I am introducing the 1964 television Hamlet at Elsinore at BFI Southbank, and then on Wednesday I have a ticket to the Royal Shakespeare Company's new more
Just after I had taken the photos above and below of these aged newspaper clippings I tossed them into a recycling sack. They followed hundreds - thousands - of others that had lain in piles in my bedsits and studies more
The Screen Plays season of television adaptations of Jacobean tragedies begins tonight at BFI Southbank. We open with a remarkable 1965 production of Thomas Middleton's play from 1621 Women Beware Women, which I have written about more
Links... is perhaps a little light this weekend, at least in this iteration. I have returned to my college for a gaudy, to which all those who started there between 1974 and 1977 are invited. Such a reunion is held more
I have written before about NT Live - the National Theatre's immensely successful live to cinema broadcasts - including about their showings of Hamlet, Frankenstein and Phedre, as well as general pieces here and more
I re-worked last week's post as a piece for the Guardian. You can read it here - and do please comment if you feel you would like to continue the discussion. There are currently 19 comments, most of which more
Early television programmes do not get anything like the attention they deserve. In part this is because very few such programmes - and I am thinking here of television before the mid-1950s - have been preserved. But even those that more
In 1964 Studio Vista published a handsome hardback celebrating the ABC TV arts series Tempo. With a profusion of plates on high quality photographic paper, plus a quirky text from critic and novelist Angus Wilson (on yellowy-beige interleaving), more
Let's hear it for LACMA! On the Unframed blog at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Amy Heibel revealed this week that the museum is making available for pretty much unrestricted use another 18,000 or so digital more