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
As part of the Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television research project which I am co-ordinating with Dr Amanda Wrigley at the University of Westminster, I have curated a BFI Southbank season of television adaptations more
We are delighted to present a short film that we have made for The Hepworth Wakefield about the three exhibitions of work by Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Alice Channer and Linder on view there until 12 May more
I think the BBC's role in bringing to people's attention the great things being done by arts organisations across the country and artists is phenomenally important... Do I think the BBC should take the arts seriously? Of course. But I more
I have just finished reading Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge. Or at least that's what it feels like. In fact I have been viewing on my iPad downloads of the five-part six-hour BBC Two film. I have more