What’s TV’s problem with theatre?
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
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
Film fans, happiness is coming (this to be sung to a jaunty tune with optional hand-clapping). If you've seen Pablo Larraín's remarkable film No, about the rival media campaigns in the 1988 referendum in Chile, you might perhaps pick up the more
Today's lesson (which I reflect upon across the jump) comes in the shape of a substantial quote from a Times interview by Libby Purves (£) last week with the director of the National Theatre Nick Hytner. Talking of more
The best - and best-value - show of modern painting in London right now is not the overblown and distinctly patchy Manet: Portraying Life at the Royal Academy (until 14 April; entrance fee £15). Rather, it is more
Let's start with the first trailer, released this week, for Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing (a still from which is above). Might he just have pulled off something truly special? For further background on the film, which opens in more
We have hugely enjoyed producing four short videos and a trailer for the exhibition Barocci: Brilliance and Grace which is at London's National Gallery until 19 May. The films about the work of the late Renaissance more
Listen up. Let's talk about The Sound and the Fury, the final part of which remains on BBC iPlayer until 9 March. Let's talk about it because it has been one of the best BBC arts and music offerings of more