Sunday links
Links spotted or recommended to me (for which thanks, and apologies for the lack of name-checks) over the past week. • Lost colours: The estimable Luke McKernan has added to his flickr site a wealth of images from filmmaker more
Links spotted or recommended to me (for which thanks, and apologies for the lack of name-checks) over the past week. • Lost colours: The estimable Luke McKernan has added to his flickr site a wealth of images from filmmaker more
With just over a week until our release of the 1965 BBC-Royal Shakespeare Company production The Wars of the Roses as a 3-disc DVD box set, we are delighted to present here The Making of The Wars of the Roses. more
To Stockholm for meetings with colleagues on the 2-IMMERSE research project, and to dinner on the 28th floor of the television tower known as Kaknastornet. This truly splendid example of 1960s brutalism is 155 metres tall and remains a major hub more
On Monday I wrote about the recording of the Rambert dance work Tomorrow that is featured on the Shakespeare Lives 2016 website. I am following that up today with a pointer to a quite different page that I curated for more
We are delighted to confirm that our exclusive 3-disc DVD of The Wars of the Roses will be released on Tuesday 28 June. Adapted from the Henry VI plays and Richard III by William Shakespeare, this is the Royal Shakespeare Company production filmed by the more
Over the past week I have contributed in a small way to two events involving screenings of television documentaries about architecture. On Thursday I introduced at BFI Southbank two films written and presented by Kenneth Clark, Great Temples of the World: more
I want to begin outlining some thoughts and some questions about the idea of 'performance capture'. And I want to do so partly in response to a 'capture' of Rambert's dance work, Tomorrow, which is choreographed by Lucy Guerin more
It's been a week of Hamlet, the live cinema broadcast of which I produced for the RSC on Wednesday, and also of talking about Kenneth Clark's television at a BFI Southbank screening on Thursday and a Broadcasting the Arts: more
Links to interesting stuff that I have discovered over the past week. A day late, I fear, in part accounted for by the preparations for the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast of Hamlet on Wednesday. • Hillary Clinton more
So I logged on to Facebook today and this is what I found... 34th anniversary! How can that be? What I think must be the case is that we incorporated Illuminations Television Ltd 34 years ago. My then-colleague Geoff Dunlop and I more