Gloriana on the big screen
Here was one we made earlier. More than fifteen years ago in fact, and now brought from the archive for an outing at BFI Southbank on NFT1's big screen. The production was Gloriana - A Film and the occasion last more
Here was one we made earlier. More than fifteen years ago in fact, and now brought from the archive for an outing at BFI Southbank on NFT1's big screen. The production was Gloriana - A Film and the occasion last more
At the end of last week, I posted about the Spaces of Television conference at the University of Reading. I greatly enjoyed the three-day event and I learned a lot from many of the presentations. One of the more
With apologies for its late arrival (blame this blog's server), this is a further post about the preparations for the RSC's Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast of Richard II to cinemas on 13 November in the UK (and later more
Courtesy of The Notebook at mubi.com and the Spanish film magazine Transit comes The Melville Variations, great video+text essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin about the films of the great French director Jean-Pierre Melville. more
The modern campus of the University of Reading is a pleasant place, especially when flattered by the late afternoon sun of a mild autumn day. That's where I have been for the last three days, taking part in an enjoyable more
Today is the start of week four of rehearsals for the RSC's Richard II. The cast are beginning to work with director Greg Doran on the detail of each scene, starting this morning with Act I Scene 1. In parallel, more
... why there is no Links for the weekend today. Each Sunday's Links... (go here for the most recent) takes some three or four hours to draw together. I tend to collect things that interest me during the week more
Released today, the Richard II trailer... more about this, and further news from the production, on Monday.
Too good to wait until my Links post at the weekend: Part I has been around a while (long enough to get more than 800,000 views); Part II was posted in July. With thanks to @KevinTPorter. (But I still really like more
This is a little story about the joy of serendipitous discovery in the archives. I am working on a research paper about the ways in which Henry Moore and his works featured on television and in films during his lifetime. Central more