Throughout the summer my MacBook Pro was developing little signs of fatigue. The 'u', the 'i' and 'o' keys started working only intermittently. The lower part of the screen sometimes showed a light brown stain. Then somehow or other, I more
Courtesy of The Notebook at mubi.com and the Spanish film magazine Transit comes The Melville Variations, great video+text essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin about the films of the great French director Jean-Pierre Melville. more
... why there is no Links for the weekend today. Each Sunday's Links... (go here for the most recent) takes some three or four hours to draw together. I tend to collect things that interest me during the week more
So I was thinking I would find something a bit different as the lead for this week's Links. Not Shakespeare again, nor movies or television. Then I read one of the scariest pieces of prose to have come my way more
I am not sure if Jonathan Bate's list of 100+ of the Best Books on Shakespeare has been around for a good while, but it's new to me - and that feels like sufficient reason to feature it more
Continuing this weekend's British cinema theme (see Ealing before Ealing here), my first recommendation has to be for Xan Brooks' delightful Guardian essay and video A pilgrim's progress: on the trail of A Canterbury Tale. Brooks more
Catching up (far too slowly) after China, there is a mountain of great stuff to read - and to recommend. One of the richest pieces published while I was away is David Bordwell's post Twice-told tales: Mildred Pierce more
Last weekend I was in Stratford-upon-Avon for Midsummer Night's Dreaming and for the one before I was at a conference. So apologies for the missing Links... Today's bumper edition aims to go some way to making good (treat the current version more
After a weekend off when I was occupied with the Coronation re-run, Links... returns with a lede devoted to the late Allan Dwan. What? Who? Born in 1885 and living until 1981, Dwan was a Canadian more
Another great selection from our colleague Todd MacDonald, who also features this weekly choice on his personal blog. First up we have a video that I first watched once it won the Vimeo Awards Grand Prize in 2012. It more