I'm coming rather late to this, but I want to make a short contribution to the Napoléon discussion. Back in 1980 I was among those who thrilled at the London Film Festival screening of Kevin Brownlow's reconstruction of Abel Gance's more
Along with occasional grumpiness about the BBC's treatment of its archive, let's also celebrate how more and more of the Corporation's history is being made available in all kinds of ways. Newly released online, for example, and intended more
Yesterday's post introduced an exhibition organised by The Arts Council for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The show featured 54 paintings, together with a number of sculptures, requested from many of the prominent artists of the day. more
To The British Library for a splendid talk by Dr Luke McKernan (the text of which is now available here) about the life and films of Charles Urban, gloriously accompanied on the keyboards by Mr Neil Brand. Earlier more
Last week the first shrink-wrapped copies of Illuminations' DVD release of An Age of Kings arrived at our offices. The event marked the culmination of at least two years' work by my colleague Louise Machin and I, along with our more
Two weeks ago I composed a compendious round-up of links about Gravity which included Neil Young's essay Satellite of love - Jonás Cuarón's Aningaaq. In this Young writes about the short by Cuarón fils that shows more
The RSC has posted a 5-minute extract from Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon on YouTube and elsewhere, and I am delighted to embed it here. This is part of Act IV Scene 1, the deposition scene, and it gives a more
Last week, as Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon unfolded, there were several moments when I thought of my English teacher at school, the late Brian Jones. Mr Jones, as he was to us in our mid-teens, was a cool poet more
Last night saw the first round of Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon Encore screenings. Which meant that I woke up to another round of wonderfully enthusiastic #RSCRichardII Twitter responses. The RSC has had a brilliant response to its more
Each time I return grumpily to the topic of today's post I feel the need to apologise to regular readers. I know that I have taken on several times before the vandalism represented by forcing 4:3 archive footage into contemporary more