Tonight's NT Live broadcast of DV8 Physical Theatre's John was not exactly business as usual. Absent was a live introduction by the bubbly Emma Freud. Instead we were treated to a video message from a serious-looking Nick Hytner telling more
I watched some terrific television over the weekend, and not all of it on television. Much of Sunday I spent at BFI Southbank with two screening programmes of the estimable Missing Believed Wiped project. This is the name that the BFI applies to showings more
I am touched and encouraged by the expressions of enthusiasm for this supposedly weekly offering, and I will now endeavour over the coming months to post it consistently. As before it is a selection of articles and more that have engaged me more
So I loved this week's episode of The Newsroom on Sky Atlantic. It was Episode 4 of Series 3 (only two more to go) and - spoiler! - it culminates in a wedding and a more-or-less simultaneous arrest more
All producers, I am certain, harbour films on which they would have loved to have had a credit. I should have produced The Godfather and, of course, It's a Wonderful Life. One step back from the realms of complete fantasy (yeah, right), I more
You have just one week to catch the truly remarkable Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, which closes on 14 December. In recognition of this we have posted on our YouTube channel a more
Just exactly one year ago, Illuminations, working with the Screen Plays research project, released a DVD box-set of the BBC's 15-part series from 1960, An Age of Kings. The series is an extraordinarily ambitious live studio production of all more
To the Clapham Picturehouse for an evening with David Hockney. First up was Randall Wright's new film biography of the artist, Hockney, which has been co-produced by the BBC. This was followed, to make it more of a more
Since we have been offline for a month and more, this is a longer (and later)-than-usual selection of articles and more that have engaged me over during that time, with the usual apologies for not including appropriate thanks to more
It's been a hugely frustrating month and more. One night, entirely unprovoked by us, our web site apparently started 'attacking' other sites. Our developers quite rightly felt that the only thing to do was to take a large part of the more