Links for the weekend
The question is, Is this the end of television as we know it? Henry Jenkins at Confessions of an aca-fan asks it with more acuity than most, highlighting a video (that I have embedded below) of an hour-long more
The question is, Is this the end of television as we know it? Henry Jenkins at Confessions of an aca-fan asks it with more acuity than most, highlighting a video (that I have embedded below) of an hour-long more
No doubt about the key cultural event of the week: the opening of the completed re-hang of 500 years of British art at Tate Britain. Tomorrow's post will be 10 things I already love there - more
Another of our colleague Todd MacDonald's weekly selections of interesting and intriguing videos... Todd MacDonald: It's all about in-camera techniques and masking tape this week, starting with some beautiful footage of London in 1927 - IN COLOUR! London in more
Todd MacDonald's choice of interesting new videos is a couple of days late this week but as he explains that's the company's fault, not his. Todd MacDonald: This week I have been shooting films a lot more than watching more
So you've probably seen this already, even though it was only posted six days ago. Since when it has clocked up more than 3.7 million YouTube views. Yes, it's the video illustrating part of the audio recording of more
Yesterday at BFI Southbank I saw a fine (although a touch short of immaculate) 35mm print of John Schlesinger's 1967 Far from the Madding Crowd. Marred by inconsistency in its central performances, this is nonetheless a magnificent film in many more
Our colleague Todd MacDonald offers another selection of videos that caught his eye during the past week. His selection also appears on his personal blog. Todd MacDonald: The long awaited new album from Bonobo emerged more
This is both irresistible and a touch magical: an eight-minute video courtesy of The Criterion Collection with Martin Scorsese talking about and demo-ing the recent restoration of Laurence Olivier's 1955 Richard III (above). Shot more
We are delighted to feature another selection of videos compiled by our colleague Todd MacDonald, which he is also presenting every week on his own blog. Todd MacDonald: I've got some good'uns this week and I even more
On at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art until 27 May there's an exhibition that I really want to see. Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity is a sumptuous assembly of 80 or so figure paintings along with more