Each day I highlight three things. Sometimes there are connections between them, oftentimes there not. • Complex TV - the poetics of contemporary television storytelling: a really exceptional website (screengrab of the home above), with oodles of extracts, created more
• 10 great modern films shot in Academy ratio: Leigh Singer for the BFI makes a choice that is exactly what it says on the tin - and does so really well. • The Angelic Cinema of Manoel de more
• The Last Hours of Laura K: an interactive online murder mystery from the Writersroom at the BBC; background here - well worth exploring. • Stranger than fiction: Honour Bayes for The Space writes about more
• Love and marriage - an ultimate journey: Adrian Martin at Fandor on Vigo, Rossellini and 'a sense that second chances for married lovers are forever possible' - lovely piece. • Cries and Whispers - love and more
• Shedding her skin: The Good Wife, currently running on More4 (with, among others, Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma, above) is simply the best thing on TV - did you see last week's show with the prison consultant? more
• Alice Guy's Paris films - film by film, location by location: a truly wonderful and wonderfully visual post from The Cine-Tourist about the scenes in silent films by the pioneering filmmaker. • The eeriness more
A time there was when I would post a list of links on a Sunday morning, but over the past week I have been experimenting with a new approach by which I highlight just three things each day. Even collectively, more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • Live and direct - the definitive oral history of 1980s digital icon Max Headroom: from Bryan Bishop for The Verge, and more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • Tom Cruise's 10 greatest movie stunts: fascinating Vulture article in which stuntman Randy Butcher talks Bilge Ebiri through moments of the more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 1932 - MGM invents the future (part 1): one of David Bordwell's exceptional posts about cinema history and poetics, in this more