I'm not going to apologise for leading again with Randy Moore's Escape from Tomorrow(above), the Sundance-premiered film that was shot in secret at Disney World and Disneyland. I particularly want to draw your attention to It's a mad, mad, more
A selection of interesting videos that I came across during the past week and - well, that's it really... Above is an image from the Saul Bass title sequence to Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954), a film discussed by Christian more
Basil Dearden and Michael Relph's 1959 British noir Sapphire is a fascinating and fractured tale of the murder of a young 'coloured' woman who has been passing for white. She is found murdered on more
Richard II, David Tennant, Greg Doran, Royal Shakespeare Company, from 10 October. PS. Just seen that for fans of this production @EffieSian has come up with the hashtag #R2DT - genius! That's in addition to @TheRSC more
Why is the work of one of our greatest filmmakers - the director Alan Clarke - all but invisible? This is not a new question. Nor do I have anything original by way of an answer. But the issue is much more
In another post from the blog's archive (previously published on 17 July 2010) I take a look at the visual arts on BBC Television between 1936 and 1939. I was reminded of this because I am teaching again at the more
The great story out of Sundance is the shooting at Disneyland and Disney World of Randy Moore's movie Escape from Tomorrow without any location permissions or copyright clearances. Believe me, as one who has tried to film at a Disney more
For this snowy Saturday, the week's selection of freely available online videos. Above, Act III of no. 3 below; no 4 has snowy aspects too. 1. How motion pictures became the movies This is a great innovation from David Bordwell's essential cinema website more
As regulars will know, I occasionally highlight earlier blog posts when they feel newly relevant. My reason today for returning to a 2008 post about the influential documentary maker John Read who died in 2011 is that I am teaching more
So here's my beef. I have booked a ticket for tonight at the ever-excellent Clapham Picturehouse to watch the current Royal Opera House production of La bohème. This is being shown in - as you can see from more