Upstage there is a set with an enclosed room and other smaller spaces, including two booths like those used for sound recording. The room is dressed as a kitchen, with walls which have extensive glass panelling allowing the audience to more
As part of the Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television research project which I am co-ordinating with Dr Amanda Wrigley at the University of Westminster, I have curated a BFI Southbank season of television adaptations more
My blog schedule for the week has been disrupted by a slow recovery from a modest bout of 'flu, so apologies for the absence of new posts in the past few days. Spending more time in bed than usual did more
I posted yesterday about my discovery of the remarkable book The Film: Its Economic, Social and Artistic Problems, which published in English by The Focal Press in 1948. Do take a look at that blog for an introduction more
One afternoon in Canterbury recently I stumbled upon The Chaucer Bookshop, a second-hand treasure house that I realised I had last entered as a schoolboy some forty years ago. I was delighted to find that it was thriving in more
I thought others might do this to mark the anniversary today of the publication of Jane Austen's great and glorious Pride and Prejudice. But as I've yet to see such an anthology, I thought I would make one for myself - more
I have lost count of the number of times that I have linked to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's exemplary blog about the history and art of film. Now David Bordwell has scripted and narrated a video essay, more
While I enjoy - and try to make some sense of - Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone (posts coming soon), let me recommend as warmly as possible two books and two terrific critical articles. The first more
I know I am coming late to this, but tonight I am off to the Clapham Picturehouse to see Joe Wright's Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley (above). Despite the so-so reviews, I am intrigued to see how more
Seven days later. A week on from Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony, and the great writing about that extraordinary vision keeps on coming. So I cannot resist offering links to a third group of ten views. Across the jump you more