Three things 8.
• Alice Guy's Paris films - film by film, location by location: a truly wonderful and wonderfully visual post from The Cine-Tourist about the scenes in silent films by the pioneering filmmaker. • The eeriness more
• Alice Guy's Paris films - film by film, location by location: a truly wonderful and wonderfully visual post from The Cine-Tourist about the scenes in silent films by the pioneering filmmaker. • The eeriness more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • Tom Cruise's 10 greatest movie stunts: fascinating Vulture article in which stuntman Randy Butcher talks Bilge Ebiri through moments of the more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 1932 - MGM invents the future (part 1): one of David Bordwell's exceptional posts about cinema history and poetics, in this more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • Why did we see Don Draper reading Dante's Inferno in Mad Men? Marta Bausells for the Guardian. The related New York more
A time there was when I used to post here regularly, including on each Sunday a host of links. In recent months I have fallen out of the habit. You've been so busy with other things, I tell myself. You've been more
Under the title 'Deep reading the Victorians', Susan E. Cook, Assistant Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, has contributed three fascinating articles to the Journal of Victorian Culture Online about the print-vs-digital question and what it means in more
Following on from the successful Screen Plays 'Classics on TV' seasons 'Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen' (June 2012) and 'Jacobean Tragedy on the Small Screen' (March-April 2013), the project is delighted once again to be working more
I am reading a book that drips sex. Émile Zola's The Kill, in Brian Nelson's thrillingly good Oxford World's Classics translation, is one of the most sensuous, sexy books that I think I've ever read. This more
Until yesterday's Guardian article by Gareth Rubin I regret to say that I had not heard of the artist Miriam Elia and her totally delightful website Learning with Miriam. I had, however, seen several of her more
Last week, as Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon unfolded, there were several moments when I thought of my English teacher at school, the late Brian Jones. Mr Jones, as he was to us in our mid-teens, was a cool poet more