Sorkinisms supercuts
Too good to wait until my Links post at the weekend: Part I has been around a while (long enough to get more than 800,000 views); Part II was posted in July. With thanks to @KevinTPorter. (But I still really like more
Too good to wait until my Links post at the weekend: Part I has been around a while (long enough to get more than 800,000 views); Part II was posted in July. With thanks to @KevinTPorter. (But I still really like more
In March 1958, for the second programme of his ATV series Is Art Necessary?, Sir Kenneth Clark filmed at the British Museum with the sculptor Henry Moore. They did so at night, illuminating the ancient artworks, including the Elgin Marbles, with powerful more
OK, so I'm not the first person to notice this, but when I came across this clip last week I did find it fairly remarkable. HBO's The Newsroom (above) which is a cable news drama written by the great and more
Rehearsals for the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Richard II with David Tennant start a week tomorrow, Tuesday (the cast get the Bank Holiday off too). And we deep in the preparations for the Live from Stratford Upon Avon broadcast to cinemas more
I am delighted to have been invited to edit a special edition of the journal Shakespeare Bulletin to appear in 2015. Published by The John Hopkins University Press, the journal has as one of its editors more
After China, I am slowly re-entering London life, and I am delighted to highlight the premiere showing at 9.30pm tonight, Wednesday, on Sky Arts 2 HD of our new production Samuel Beckett: Not I. The 45-minute film features a more
I want to tell you a story. It's short and, I hope, a bit quirky. Maybe it has connections with #Dream40 this weekend, but if it does those links are quite oblique. Rather, take it as a little more
Monday sees the latest live cinema broadcast of a production from the Royal Opera House. The opera is Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana which has just opened in a new staging by director Richard Jones. (Reviews more
(There is quite a bit of cooking and gardening too.) To the pleasing Picturehouse in Stratford-upon-Avon for Pompeii Live. This is a live-to-cinema broadcast from the British Museum blockbuster and yet another offering in the increasingly crowded more
On Monday afternoon at BFI Southbank I am introducing two early films by Robert Vas (1931-1978) together with a television obituary of Vas made by Barrie Gavin and colleagues. (The obit is on YouTube but - more