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
To Stratford-upon-Avon Picturehouse for a live broadcast of the Royal Ballet's Manon, choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan. Very splendid it was too, with Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli as the principals, and with screen director Ross MacGibbon providing a master-class in how more
An idiosyncratic selection of articles and more that have engaged me over the past few days, with the usual apologies for not including appropriate thanks to those who alerted me to some of them. • Le Giornate del Cinema more
Long ago and far away - in the autumn of 1971, I believe, and in Canterbury - I fell in love. The obscure object of my desire was Cinema, and two inamorata vied for my affections. One was the collective more
Collective self-portraits from the BBC are always compelling. And that's exactly what the new video for BBC Music is, even as it features an all-star cast singing the 1966 Beach Boys hit 'God Only Knows'. There's already some good analysis more