27th October 2018
Links to articles that attracted my attention in the three weeks (apologies!) since the last of these columns, plus the occasional video. There are some especially strong film-related articles this week. Many thanks to those who recommended many of these
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30th September 2018
Today's links to interesting stuff that has attracted my attention over the past week or so, with thanks to Twitter recommenders. You will doubtless be delighted to see that I have once again worked out how to embed videos.
• They
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2nd September 2018
Summer's over and - yes - I've delivered the first draft manuscript of my book. (It's about film and television adaptations of RSC stage productions.) So let's see if I can return to my weekly list of links to things
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19th March 2017
As usual (or given recent experience, on occasions), a list of links to articles and videos that have engaged me over the past week. Many thanks to those who alerted me to a number of them.
• Senses of Cinema
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26th February 2017
Since I have failed for the past two Sundays to compile a list of links to things that have interested or intrigued me recently, let us begin today's (acknowledging the usual thanks to those who have alerted me to many
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29th January 2017
The past week has been even worse for the world than the one before, but here is a list of links not totally dominated by the hideousness across the Atlantic, the hideousness at home, and the hideousness of the two
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8th November 2016
A song for today.
'The greatest song ever written about America... and what's so great about it is, it gets right to the heart of what our country is supposed to be about."
Live at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, 30 September,
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30th October 2016
Another fortnight and another missed Sunday links last weekend. Apologies, but I hope today's list of articles and videos that I've found interesting recently goes some way to making amends. As usual, many of these have been highlighted on Twitter and
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9th October 2016
I missed a links post last Sunday and other entries over the past fortnight have been only sporadic. I can only plead busy-ness in the preparation for the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcasts of Cymbeline, ten days ago, and King Lear,
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25th September 2016
To start Sunday links, this...
• My vote: Roger Angell for The New Yorker.
... and this...
• The road ahead: Kirk Douglas for The Huffington Post.
... and this, from Joss Whedon and friends (which you'll have seen but which is
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