Sunday links
John Wyver writes: another Sunday, another lot of links, starting out with a couple of essential lists to help you catch up with the year's highlights. • The 50 best films of 2021: who can resist this more
John Wyver writes: another Sunday, another lot of links, starting out with a couple of essential lists to help you catch up with the year's highlights. • The 50 best films of 2021: who can resist this more
John Wyver writes: It must have been the summer of 2000 when I took a call from Antony Sher's agent. The actor was coming to the end of nearly a year's run in Macbeth. The exceptionally more
John Wyver writes: As you may have noticed, I have almost immediately failed to fulfil my resolution to write three non-links posts each week. There's just SO much else to write at the moment: a grant application, a television series more
John Wyver writes: this week's links. That's it, that's the introduction - apart from an expression of thanks to those in my Twitter timeline for some great recommendations. • The bad guys are winning: read Anne Applebaum's more
John Wyver writes: despite, or because of, the disappointing compromise in Glasgow last night, the state of the world is no better this weekend than last, but instead of gloom-and-doom political pieces I thought I'd begin this week's list of more
John Wyver writes: Todd Haynes' music documentary The Velvet Underground, about the legendary band and the cultural context of the United States in the 1960s and '70s, has had a limited theatrical more
John Wyver writes: I'm pleased that I seem to have re-started regular Sunday links, and now my aim is to return to posting more regularly on topics that I've mused about before, including television and film, more
John Wyver writes: back now in the groove, here's a new collection of articles and a video or two that have engaged me over the past week. As ever, I am most grateful to those in my Twitter feed who more
John Wyver writes: Let's do this (once again). • Multimedia lectures on film (Ep. 1) - They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948): this is a fascinating initiative by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin, a dynamic more
John Wyver writes: along with everything else, including a nasty cough with a slew of negative tests and a fall that left me with a wounded knee, I had been struggling for weeks, indeed months, to finish the draft of more