John Wyver writes: this week's collection of links to interesting articles and videos, with grateful thanks to all those who alerted me via Twitter and in other ways. The great American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank died this week. As for more
John Wyver writes: The director and television drama executive James Cellan Jones died recently at the age of 88. He was a very fine studio director who started working with the BBC in 1963, and who later became Head more
Thrilling news from our friend and colleague Keith Griffiths, who writes the following on his Facebook page: After three years of painstaking animation and production, tonight, Wednesday 11 September, sees the world premiere of The Doll's Breath, the new 22-minute more
John Wyver writes: I'm never entirely certain if it's interesting to post here about artworks or architecture that I've encountered, or about films and television I've watched, or books that I've read. Indeed, after well over a decade, on and more
John Wyver writes: The summer is nearly over, the Ashes nearly lost (again), series 2 of the wonderful Succession (above, HBO/Sky Atlantic) is with us and there's not much going on in politics. So it feels like a good moment more
John Wyver writes: So it's the official publication day for Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History. My thanks to The Arden Shakespeare for taking this on, to Gregory Doran and other colleagues at the RSC for all more
Publication day for my book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History looms, and so here's another instalment in my chapter-by-chapter breakdown. The third chapter, 'Making Movies, 1964-73' is really an essay of two halves. The second part considers more
John Wyver writes: I've been pre-occupied with other stuff for the last few weeks, but I want now to offer two or three 'links' posts rounding up articles that have engaged me recently - to start with, here are pieces more
My book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History is published this coming week by Bloomsbury as part of The Arden Shakespeare series. I own to being very pleased about this, and I am writing a series of more
John Wyver writes: Today would have been the 100th birthday of Sam Wanamaker (pictured above as Iago in Stratford in 1959), the American actor and director who conceived the idea and campaigned for many years to build the replica more