I want to begin outlining some thoughts and some questions about the idea of 'performance capture'. And I want to do so partly in response to a 'capture' of Rambert's dance work, Tomorrow, which is choreographed by Lucy Guerin more
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC is now available as a Region 2 DVD. Here it is on display today in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-uopn-Avon. Which is where it was broadcast from on 23 April. That is all.
So just what seems to be the problem? We have a shiny new web site which, while far from perfect, is a big step on from what was here before. While we were working on how to structure the new site more
Just released on DVD and Blu-ray by BFI Publishing are two sets of dramatised biographies made by Ken Russell at the BBC in the 1960s. The Great Composers contains Elgar (1962), The Debussy Film (1965) and Delius: Song of more
Tonight at BFI Southbank I am introducing three documentaries about the arts made for British television more than fifty years ago. The screening is part of the excellent BFI project Visions of Change about television documentaries from more
Tonight sees the opening of an exciting series of screenings and talks at BFI Southbank exploring the evolution of the television documentary in Britain. Visions of Change features a host of television treasures from the 1950s and '60s - more
Long ago and far away I was a ten-year-old trainspotter. I would stand on the station footbridge at Whitstable noting down the numbers of the recently introduced electric trains that passed beneath me. Then I would run home to underline with scrupulous more
• Shedding her skin: The Good Wife, currently running on More4 (with, among others, Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma, above) is simply the best thing on TV - did you see last week's show with the prison consultant? more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 100 Voices That made the BBC - Elections: a glorious archive site about the televising of elections from the BBC and more
Unlikely as it may seem, read of the week may be Reeves Wiedeman's article for Popular Mechanics about how 300,000+ copies of The New York Times reach the streets every day. Below is a selection of other pieces to engage more