I am delighted that this week the new issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Television and Radio has published my article 'Exploring the lost television and technique of producer Fred O’Donovan'. The article is developed more
Cheek by Jowl are currently livestreaming their production of The Winter's Tale from the Barbican. Below is a bunch of background links and now I am intending to live blog through the evening. The stream will have subtitles in English, French and Spanish, more
On Sunday 23 April Barbican cinema presents a six-hour screening of a recently restored version of Henri Fescourt's 1925 film Les Misérables from Victor Hugo's novel. As the Barbican promises the new print has 'all the riches of the various more
Until 23 April MoMA in New York is running a season of Czech cinema from 1927-43. It looks like a wonderful series of almost unknown films. • Ecstasy and irony: Czech cinema, 1927-43: the MoMA programme page, with notes about more
After that final episode, if you're anything like me, you need to read about it, so here are links to Stateside reaction. • Homeland finale - showrunner Alex Gansa talks Season 6, Carrie’s future and planning the end game: from Variety's Cynthia more
I have been wrestling with how best to contribute regularly to this blog while I am much preoccupied with a number of productions and several more extended pieces of writing. Sunday links columns like this have been the only ones more
Three current shows in the States, each featuring American women artists, that I really really wish I could see. • A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism': Christopher Knight for L.A. Times reviews the more
Today is the last day of the run at the Almeida of Robert Icke's staging of Hamlet with Andrew Scott as the Prince. The production transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre, 9 June - 2 September. These are more
Long ago, back in 1971, I went one Sunday afternoon to what was then The Tate Gallery to see the exhibition of work by Eduardo Paolozzi. It was one of the very first contemporary art shows that I had ever more
As usual (or given recent experience, on occasions), a list of links to articles and videos that have engaged me over the past week. Many thanks to those who alerted me to a number of them. • Senses of Cinema more