Links for the weekend, part two
My 'Links for the weekend' is our blog's most popular offering. But given the length of this week's post as it first appeared, it is clear that the idea is in danger of getting out of hand. So I am more
My 'Links for the weekend' is our blog's most popular offering. But given the length of this week's post as it first appeared, it is clear that the idea is in danger of getting out of hand. So I am more
After the BFI's extensive tribute to Alfred Hitchcock over the summer and the immaculate restorations of his silent films, you might have thought the great director had nothing else to give. But now, and for the next two months, the more
The big background story of the week has to be how big data helped Obama win big. Start with Michael Scherer's fascinating piece for Time, Inside the secret world of the data crunchers who helped Obama win. What 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
Andrew O'Hagan's essay about the Savile scandal in the London Review of Books, Light entertainment, is (and I know this is much over-used adjective) indispensable. Amongst much else it is a truly remarkable portrait of the post-war BBC, but more
I hardly deserve the honorific 'fan', but I enjoy traditional American science fiction, especially from the immediate post-war years. So I am excited to see that the exemplary Library of America series (their beautiful volumes of Henry James grace my more
Being in Pordenone (see my initial post here) inevitably means that I am thinking a lot about moving image archives - but there is more to my current focus of interest than that. This feels like a moment more
This really does feel like the end of an era. On Saturday, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger died at the age of 86. That's him above, with another American media giant, Katharine Graham, proprietor of the The Washington Post, in more
A time there was when I posted weekly a group of links to things that I recently read or watched online. Then I stopped for a while. And now - I think - I am going to start again. Maybe more
I'm still not sure how best to create/curate a weekly collection of links that is useful to others. The process, however, is important to me as a way of gathering together pieces that I find useful or stimulating and so more