John Wyver writes: It's a long time since I compiled the weekly 'Sunday links' - indeed it's a long time since I wrote anything substantial here. But with the changing circumstances for the company (see News, below), I'm minded, more
In the new year a season at BFI Southbank is showcasing the weird and wonderful history of the Scala Cinema, and as part of this programmer (and our friend) Dick Fiddy has organised an afternoon on Saturday 13 more
Late last year saw the passing of legendary fashion designer, Vivianne Westwood. Westwood was best known for her eponymous fashion brand and for helping to shape the look of not only punk, but also the New Romantics of the 1980s. more
Having finished interviewing Iain Sinclair for our new retrospective film on London Orbital and packed up the filming equipment, we chatted to him as he told us the story of a screening of London Orbital in more
I hope it will not seem immodest if I enthuse here about a screening in Stratford-upon-Avon last Sunday of the Illuminations/Royal Shakespeare Company Macbeth that we made in 2000. This is a film version produced for Channel 4 more
As part of our 40th-anniversary celebrations a few months ago, we delved into our archive to highlight some of the famous and, in some cases, infamous moments we've brought to the small screen. Chief amongst these more
The final blog post for our 40th anniversary is an interview with Jeff Bezos circa 1998. This is the first time we've made this clip available and it's a fascinating glimpse of when Amazon was 'just' a bookshop but also more
What is it about the Turner Prize, live TV, and Illuminations? Tracey Emin walked off during Is Painting Dead? which aired live after the 1997 Turner Prize and then in 2001 Madonna dropped an f-bomb of the mother more
Continuing our series of key moments in Illuminations’ history, we are sharing our famous clip of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol together with their collaborative paintings at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York in 1985. It was filmed as part more
In 1997 Illuminations produced the live show, Is Painting Dead? Chaired by Tim Marlow, it featured Norman Rosenthal, Tracey Emin, Matthew Collings, Richard Cork, Jane Harris, Waldemar Januszczak, Martin Maloney, and Roger Scruton to discuss the titular question.The show itself more