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
Below are links to articles and other online offerings that have engaged me in the past few days. I extend my usual apologies to those who have recommended some of these, whether on Twitter or elsewhere, and which I fail more
I have come to the end of the first week of my MOOC. Having taken an assessment test and scored 34 from a possible 36 points (and with one of those I dropped being highly questionable), I'm feeling sufficiently pleased more
I have been reading with great pleasure the excellent Library of America anthology The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner. Edited by Laurence Senelick, this features numerous essays, reviews and poems across the more
Today is World Ballet Day, a remarkable online collaboration of ballet companies around the world. Since 3am this morning the Royal Ballet's free Youtube channel has been more
Click on the title to go to 30 Years of The Turner Prize, a 3-minute film that we put together last week for Tate and the Guardian. It's also showing alongside the Turner Prize 2014 exhibition more
Apologies for our problems with malware over the past ten days or so. Believe me, we are very happy to be back - and we feel confident that we're free of problems now. So to celebrate here is a list more