An offering including several compelling pieces about copyright (honest!). Apologies as usual to all those from whom I've taken tips without credit. • What's left to discover today? Plenty: David Bordwell as richly interesting as ever. • L.A more
To Cinema 1 at the Barbican for a live stream of The Forbidden Zone from the Salzburg Festival. Written by Duncan Macmillan and directed by Katie Mitchell, this new work premiered last Wednesday, plays Salzburg for another week more
Today I went, by appointment, to what they call a carrel in Rare Books and Manuscripts at The British Library. My carrel was a little room with a glass wall, rather fierce air-conditioning and some headphones. An immensely more
Discussions about adapting stage plays for the screen, whether broadcast live or recorded 'as live', have moved on apace over the past couple of months. There have also been a number of further cinema broadcasts, including a successful presentation by more
Welcome home - to sunshine, a much-neglected blog and more than 1,700 spam comments that need (rapid) reviewing. Here is a developing list of some of the things I've found interesting in the past few days since I have been more
• From the Bard to Bart - how Mr Burns challenges our common culture: Mark Lawson at the Almeida (above, Tristram Kenton's Guardian image of the production). • Recovered, discovered and restored - DVDs, Blu-rays and a more
If it's Wednesday, it must be the live broadcast day of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast of Henry IV Part II. We're back at the Boar's Head tavern, which is where Falstaff, Hal more
• The Space: welcome! • The 1940s are over, and Tarantino is still playing with the blocks: David Bordwell on Quentin Tarantino, Walt Disney, and Henry James. • Are digital cameras more
Regular readers will know that I am involved with the Screen Plays research project, based at the University of Westminster and generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project is documenting the history of theatre plays on more
I am in Stratford-upon-Avon for today's first camera rehearsal for the RSC's live cinema presentation of Henry IV Part II on 18 June. One of the things that frustrates me about these broadcasts is that they rarely get more