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
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
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
With the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast on Wednesday, it's been a busy and fairly intense week. One lovely and sort-of-related online offering this week is the full audio track from the RSC's Midsummer Night's Dreaming event with more
If you see just one thing in the cinema this week, make sure it's the RSC's Live from Stratford-upon-Avon Richard II on Wednesday. But your second cinema visit has to be the astonishing Gravity, with Sandra Bullock (above). (Apologies to more
Read of the week - if 'read' is the right word - has to be the Guardian's remarkable round-up of the implications of the Snowden revelations in its digital presentation NSA Files: Decoded. You should also most definitely more
Back in June I had more than a few sceptical words about the Royal Shakespeare Company's collaboration with Google, Midsummer Night's Dreaming. Truth to tell, I thought it was a misconceived mess, although with a glorious live event more
Let's start with two important pieces of writing about politics. One is Charles Simic's Bleak house, a short but devastating state-of-the-American-nation piece for the New York Review of Books blog: We have forgotten what this country once understood, that more
After seeing Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi's very fine film yesterday (above), with the incomparable Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, this clip - which I have featured before - picked itself - it's from Jean-Luc Godard's more
I like this original video essay by Michael Coresky and Casey Moore about the films of Ingmar Bergman very much; it was made for The Criterion Collection. There are lots more Links below, with thanks this week more