10 #ROHdonna thoughts
I have spent the evening in the front row of Screen 4 at Clapham Picturehouse watching the Royal Opera House live broadcast of Rossini's La donna del lago. I thought it truly splendid, and the best ROH broadcast more
I have spent the evening in the front row of Screen 4 at Clapham Picturehouse watching the Royal Opera House live broadcast of Rossini's La donna del lago. I thought it truly splendid, and the best ROH broadcast more
The question is, Is this the end of television as we know it? Henry Jenkins at Confessions of an aca-fan asks it with more acuity than most, highlighting a video (that I have embedded below) of an hour-long more
... and one that I just don't understand - but we'll get to that. The re-hang of Tate Britain is complete and unquestionably and unreservedly is a cause for celebration. The main circuit of the galleries is now more
No doubt about the key cultural event of the week: the opening of the completed re-hang of 500 years of British art at Tate Britain. Tomorrow's post will be 10 things I already love there - more
Another of our colleague Todd MacDonald's weekly selections of interesting and intriguing videos... Todd MacDonald: It's all about in-camera techniques and masking tape this week, starting with some beautiful footage of London in 1927 - IN COLOUR! London in more
By making available in perpetuity programmes without too many rights issues, the online BBC archive collections are proving to be invaluable resources for researching television history. A parallel archive release from BBC Four (oddly unlisted on the more
Todd MacDonald's choice of interesting new videos is a couple of days late this week but as he explains that's the company's fault, not his. Todd MacDonald: This week I have been shooting films a lot more than watching more
So you've probably seen this already, even though it was only posted six days ago. Since when it has clocked up more than 3.7 million YouTube views. Yes, it's the video illustrating part of the audio recording of more
Has there ever been a better time to love the cinema? Sure, it would have been cool to hang out on the Left Bank in '56 and argue about Ray and Fuller with Jean-Luc, Francois and the gang. And I more
Back in 2009 we ran a blog post that was based on an article in the New York Times which claimed that the 'latest digital fad a chain-letter-cum-literary exercise called "25 Random Things About Me".' For a while it more