Links for the weekend [updated]
The big background story of the week has to be how big data helped Obama win big. Start with Michael Scherer's fascinating piece for Time, Inside the secret world of the data crunchers who helped Obama win. What more
The big background story of the week has to be how big data helped Obama win big. Start with Michael Scherer's fascinating piece for Time, Inside the secret world of the data crunchers who helped Obama win. What more
As I hope we'll have occasion to reveal at the appropriate point, I have a particular interest at present in Uncle Vanya. So the opportunity to see two - very different - productions on the same day seemed too good more
Wednesday morning, and to kill time I'm wandering around Stratford-upon-Avon. Oxfam Books is - as ever - alluring, and I make for the modest Film and Television section. Not that my shelves at home (or indeed the floors) have any more more
After celebrating East End boy Alfred Hitchcock through the summer, the BFI is now looking to the west of London - to Ealing Studios. As you can see from the trailer, this month and next there is a compendious (and tremendous) more
Even though I was giving a paper at the Channel 4 and British film culture conference on Friday, the thirtieth anniversary of the switch-on rather snuck up on me. Then it was 4.20pm and I realised that it more
I have lost count of the number of times that I have linked to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's exemplary blog about the history and art of film. Now David Bordwell has scripted and narrated a video essay, more
... till it's gone. Today, Wednesday 31 October, is the last day of the first six months of The Space. Fortunately, this Arts Council England/BBC collaboration has been such a success that the project is continuing (see more
I have seen a future for dance film and its name is All This Can Happen. Siobhan Davies and David Hinton's new 50-minute film premiered at Dance Umbrella recently and was revealed as thrilling and touching more
I have been staying in The Athenaeum on the Caltech campus. A faculty club for the university, it was completed in 1930 and is a gloriously sturdy and determinedly old-fashioned institution of English descent. Jackets and more
Just before 12.30 the technician comes to switch on Metropolis II. Crowded around a room-size contraption that is part Heath Robinson, part Meccano mountain, is an expectant group of young children, older men and perhaps even an art more