To BFI Southbank for the London Film Festival's Archive Gala screening of The Informer. Produced in 1929 during the transitional period when the industry was changing from silent film to sound, this intense tale of love, friendship and betrayal more
Tonight RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcasts Gregory Doran's production of King Lear with Antony Sher in the title role. If we can achieve something of what we got in the second camera rehearsal yesterday, then I think it will more
On Wednesday this week RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcasts Gregory Doran's production of King Lear to cinemas across Britain. As preparation for this, my work as producer has meant that I've watched the staging half a dozen times more
I wish, I wish I had been in Pordenone for the 35th edition of that northern Italian town's Silent Film Festival. I have been on several occasions in the past, and the event's intense week of screenings combined with Italian more
I missed a links post last Sunday and other entries over the past fortnight have been only sporadic. I can only plead busy-ness in the preparation for the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcasts of Cymbeline, ten days ago, and King Lear, more
Tonight it's the Last Night of the Proms for me. I know most people celebrated this oddly English and - especially in the current climate - deeply contradictory occasion a month ago. But for me Saturday 8 October is the more
Perhaps I've mentioned that I am writing a book about screen adaptations of Royal Shakespeare Company productions? I'm currently in the middle of researching and drafting the first of six chapters, which is intended both to introduce the key ideas of more
To start Sunday links, this... • My vote: Roger Angell for The New Yorker. ... and this... • The road ahead: Kirk Douglas for The Huffington Post. ... and this, from Joss Whedon and friends (which you'll have seen but which is more
The usual weekly offering of links to articles and videos that I have found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as usual to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in other ways, and more
We're absolutely delighted that Robert Hanks has written a review for the October issue of Sight&Sound our DVD box set of 1965 BBC-RSC History plays cycle, The Wars of the Roses. More details of the set, as well as more