At the end of every year each of us at Illuminations and at our sister company Illuminations Films contributes a top ten of cultural highlights of the year. We run these through this holiday period, with the second contribution today from more
At the end of every year each of us at Illuminations and at our sister company Illuminations Films contributes a top ten of cultural highlights of the year. We run these through this holiday period, with today's first contribution from Illuminations' more
Half a lifetime ago (for those who are counting, it is thirty-four years) I wrote a feature for Time Out about the 1979 BBC television film Schalcken the Painter (above). Leslie Megahey's ghost story is now newly released on DVD more
Neglected for the past few days, this blog needs a good deal of tlc over the coming days. On the way: a Postcard from Paris, comments on Schalcken the Painter and the Illuminations team's top tens of the year. Here, more
The Illuminations DVD release of the 1960 BBC series An Age of Kings is now well and truly launched - and initial sales are promising. These eight Shakespeare History plays in the 5-disc box set can be more
Nearly a week has passed since my visit to Ghent for the hugely stimulating symposium Art & Cinema: On the aesthetics, history and theory of the art documentary. I think that the last time I was in the more
I was in Ghent over the weekend - at an excellent symposium about arts documentaries - and as a consequence I am behind with my posting schedule. I aim to build my list of links across today and more
A low morning sun and vapour trails in a blue, blue sky provide a spectacular backdrop as an early Eurostar pulls out of St Pancras. I'm on the way to Ghent for a symposium on Saturday about the early history more
Wednesday evening at 9pm on BBC Four sees the first showing of our latest broadcast documentary, Lionel Bart: Reviewing the Situation. Written by Caroline Stafford and David Stafford (and inspired by their fine biography, Fings more
I have started a quest to find all of the 54 paintings and 12 sculptures included in the Festival of Britain Sixty Paintings for '51 (see previous posts here and here). My second blog more