Videos for the weekend
The first of this week's videos - which, by the way, is totally delightful and should be watched now - is discussed by the academic Jason Mittell in his post The Scared is Spread at his essential blog more
The first of this week's videos - which, by the way, is totally delightful and should be watched now - is discussed by the academic Jason Mittell in his post The Scared is Spread at his essential blog more
Network's new double DVD set from the 1960s ABC TV arts series Tempo is, as I posted last week, a wonderful collection of archival jewels. After last week's introduction, I intend to post over more
I have said this here before but it definitely bears repeating: over the past seven years or so a series of BFI screenings, publications and DVD releases has rewritten the history of the British documentary. This is an achievement that more
I posted yesterday about my discovery of the remarkable book The Film: Its Economic, Social and Artistic Problems, which published in English by The Focal Press in 1948. Do take a look at that blog for an introduction more
One afternoon in Canterbury recently I stumbled upon The Chaucer Bookshop, a second-hand treasure house that I realised I had last entered as a schoolboy some forty years ago. I was delighted to find that it was thriving in more
On Friday Netflix made available simultaneously all thirteen episodes of its House of Cards re-make (above). The serial, starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher, has had a mixed press - Alessandra Stanley for The more
I have my colleague Todd Macdonald to thank for the weekend's first clip: a timelapse panorama of the courtyard observed by Jeff (James Stewart, above) in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Todd was laid up with a bug for much more
Thanks to the eclectic and extraordinarily extensive DVD releases from Network we can now see a remarkable range of ITV programmes from the past forty or so years. Who would have thought that the obscure serial more
Another post from our archives, this time from 8 March 2011, when I was about to teach a very similar class to the one that I will give at the Royal College of Art tomorrow. I am delighted to be contributing more
I thought others might do this to mark the anniversary today of the publication of Jane Austen's great and glorious Pride and Prejudice. But as I've yet to see such an anthology, I thought I would make one for myself - more