Links for the week
Being in Pordenone (see my initial post here) inevitably means that I am thinking a lot about moving image archives - but there is more to my current focus of interest than that. This feels like a moment more
Being in Pordenone (see my initial post here) inevitably means that I am thinking a lot about moving image archives - but there is more to my current focus of interest than that. This feels like a moment more
So I'm excited. Over the weekend I booked my flight, and today I have confirmed my hotel reservation. This time next week I'll be in Pordenone for the best part of a week of early and silent cinema. Which to more
This really does feel like the end of an era. On Saturday, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger died at the age of 86. That's him above, with another American media giant, Katharine Graham, proprietor of the The Washington Post, in more
I know I am coming late to this, but tonight I am off to the Clapham Picturehouse to see Joe Wright's Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley (above). Despite the so-so reviews, I am intrigued to see how more
To Shakespeare's Globe - or at least to the Sackler Studios just round the corner - for a wonderfully jolly staged reading on Sunday of Philip Massinger's comedy A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Probably more
Today we film for Sky Arts the first of four (and, we hope, more) Rosenblatt Recitals from Wigmore Hall. The American bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee, accompanied by painist Iain Burnside, is giving more
A time there was when I posted weekly a group of links to things that I recently read or watched online. Then I stopped for a while. And now - I think - I am going to start again. Maybe more
I have to admit to squeezing in another late summer cultural mini-break (see here for my Shakespeare trip last month). Last week I was in the French town of Arles for a couple of nights, catching the end more
You will have noticed that I have not been blogging much over the past two months. I have been planning posts, writing parts of them in my head, even jotting down drafts. There is one that I want to offer more
To the London Olympics and the York Mystery Plays on the same evening, although both only virtually. I spent Saturday night somewhere between 2012 and the medieval world, as I watched athletics and diving on the BBC and Pilot Theatre's more