Links for the weekend
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
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
I'm coming rather late to this, but I want to make a short contribution to the Napoléon discussion. Back in 1980 I was among those who thrilled at the London Film Festival screening of Kevin Brownlow's reconstruction of Abel Gance's more
Along with occasional grumpiness about the BBC's treatment of its archive, let's also celebrate how more and more of the Corporation's history is being made available in all kinds of ways. Newly released online, for example, and intended more
Yesterday's post introduced an exhibition organised by The Arts Council for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The show featured 54 paintings, together with a number of sculptures, requested from many of the prominent artists of the day. more
To The British Library for a splendid talk by Dr Luke McKernan (the text of which is now available here) about the life and films of Charles Urban, gloriously accompanied on the keyboards by Mr Neil Brand. Earlier more
Last week the first shrink-wrapped copies of Illuminations' DVD release of An Age of Kings arrived at our offices. The event marked the culmination of at least two years' work by my colleague Louise Machin and I, along with our more
Two weeks ago I composed a compendious round-up of links about Gravity which included Neil Young's essay Satellite of love - Jonás Cuarón's Aningaaq. In this Young writes about the short by Cuarón fils that shows more