Sunday links
As usual this a selection of articles and more that have engaged me recently; it is presented with my regular apology for not including appropriate thanks to those who alerted me to some of them.
• Worse than a defeat: if you follow only one recommendation this week, make it this angry and important and appalling piece about ‘Britain’s Afghan war’ by James Meek for London Review of Books.
• The messy media ethics behind the Sony hacks: as good a piece as you could hope for from Anne Helen Petersen at Buzzfeed about the legitimacy or not of reading, writing about and studying the hacked Sony e-mails.
• Why we’re reporting on Sony ‘s leaked info: the view from the sharp end of journalism, by the entertainment editor of The Verge, Emily Noshida.
• Project Goliath – inside’s Hollywood’s secret war against Google: more from the Sony story, and from The Verge, this time by Russell Brandom, about Hollywood paranoia, piracy and the world’s most powerful search engine.
• How Sony lost the Steve Jobs movie – the inside story from the hacked e-mails: … and one more compelling piece, this time by Christina Warren for Mashable.
• Hollywood and Vine: excellent headline for a very good New Yorker piece by Tad Friend about YouTube and stuff.
• Visual story-telling – is that all?: yet one more essential post by David Bordwell.
• A movie magician: Luke McKernan on the British early filmmaker Walter Booth.
• David Lynch’s bad thoughts: the fine art of the filmmaker, including Factory Building, 2012, a detail of which is above, discussed by J. Hoberman at New York Review of Books.
• Stan B. and Mr Turner: Tim Cawkwell on Brakhage, Mike Leigh and J. M. W. himself.
• At Tate Britain: John Barrell in London Review of Books on Jonathan Jones as well as Late Turner at Tate Britain.
• When the art is watching you: the application of data mining by museums, by Ellen Gamerman for The Wall Street Journal.
• Is Livestreaming the future of media, or the future of activism?: a strong essay from Ferguson by Adrian Chen for New York, with some excellent video illustrations.
• The strange fates of the Shakespeare First Folio: Eric Rasmussen at The Conversation on the fluctuating numbers of one of the world’s most valuable, in all senses, volumes.
• ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse): the best piece I’ve read on the recent production of John Ford’s play, by Peter Kirwan at The Bardathon.
• Who cares what the critics say? Peter Pan Live! was a social phenomenon: a short round-up by Lost Remote of the reaction on Twitter and elsewhere to NBC’s live musical.
• How fairy tales grew up: Marina Warner on Frozen and other adaptations, from the Guardian.
• John Berger ‘ ‘Writing is an off-shoot of something deeper’: also from the Guardian, ‘I have been writing for about 80 years…’
• The Pilgrim’s Way: a fine reflective video essay by Max Nelson, from Film Comment.
The Pilgrim’s Way: A Video Essay from Film Comment on Vimeo.
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