Blunted Points [updated]
Tomorrow Arts Council England and the BBC announce the projects to be funded for this summer's exciting digital arts project The Space (see my earlier post Make it new). I did some initial consultancy for The Space but more
Tomorrow Arts Council England and the BBC announce the projects to be funded for this summer's exciting digital arts project The Space (see my earlier post Make it new). I did some initial consultancy for The Space but more
To the V&A for a Sunday afternoon screening of an archival recording of Michael Grandage's 2004-05 production of Schiller's Don Carlos. This came courtesy of the invaluable National Video Archive of Performance, which for the past more
So why is Randall Wright's 90-minute documentary Lucian Freud: Painted Life (on iPlayer until 25 February) the BBC's best film about a visual artist for many a year? The compelling subject helps of course, as do the remarkable more
Yes, I've been super-busy - and, yes, I feel guilty about not posting here for nearly a fortnight. So let me construct a post about a few of the things we're involved in and also about one or two new more
For a project about the First World War to be released later in the year (when I'll blog it), I have been filming in Belgium and France. The weather was bitterly cold and our car got caught in a scary blizzard, more
BFI Video has this week released Jack Hazan's 1974 feature about David Hockney and his circle, A Bigger Splash. Available as a dual format DVD and Blu-ray, this fascinating and complex film has never looked better, more
In Sunday's Observer Tim Adams wrote a fascinating article about the the Picasso show at the Tate Gallery in 1960. Suggesting that this was the world's first 'art block-buster', he explored 'the moment when Picasso, and modernism, finally arrived in more
To BFI Southbank for a most engaging day exploring small-screen adaptations of Charles Dickens. Three sessions throughout Saturday featured a host of fascinating clips and a number of engaging guests. In the morning, writer, curator and co-conceiver of more
To the Old Vic to sit with Clare in two eye-wateringly expensive seats to watch an immaculate performance of Michael Frayn's Noises Off. The back-stage comic complications, combined with the high-end prices (top whack £85 a seat - more
Here's a little campaign that is well worth supporting: Save the 35 Ken Russell BBC Films. Or, as the Facebook page (above) also - and more accurately - argues, Free the 35 BBC Films of Ken Russell. more