John Wyver writes: Slightly late posting this today, but offered now in the hope you'll find it interesting and useful. Asd ever, it's a miscellany of stuff that I found valuable and engaging over the past seven days. The appropriately more
John Wyver writes: The final screening in the BFI Southbank season linked to the publication of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain is on Saturday afternoon at 15.00. The oddball programme pairs more
John Wyver writes: I'm sorry, but personal stuff and a professional deadline mean I just have not had the time to compile this Sunday's recommendations. Apologies. I hope normal service will be resumed next week. In the meantime, here's a more
Links to articles that have intrigued, interested and informed me in the past week. Grateful thanks to all those who pointed me towards them, and apologies for not including more than this collective credit. I'll start with one of the more
I failed to post the past two Sunday links, and nor have I contributed general entries across the past three weeks. Although it's no excuse it has been an exceptionally busy time for the company, mostly because we have been preparing more
Paintings glimpsed in movies are often fascinating, and invariably so when they exhibit modernist tendencies. Take a look at the painting below that is granted just two seconds or so in the British Gothic melodrama Madness of the Heart, 1949 (a detail of more
Next Saturday, 23 April, I am one of the producers on the Royal Shakespeare Company-BBC collaboration Shakespeare Live! From the RSC. It is going to be a great show, and you can see it at 8.30pm on BBC more
The past week has been particularly rewarding for those of us who follow the writings on film of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. To start with, The Criterion Collection released the opening (embedded below) of a video essay about more
Even if I neglect the blog on other days (and apologies for that, it's just a very busy time right now), the list of links needs to be offered each Sunday. I rarely embed audio clips here (mostly because I more
I have my colleague Todd Macdonald to thank for the weekend's first clip: a timelapse panorama of the courtyard observed by Jeff (James Stewart, above) in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Todd was laid up with a bug for much more