Sunday links
John Wyver writes: apologies for missing last week, but here's a new collection of stuff that I've found interesting and, in the case of the videos from #DNC2020, inspiring. Thanks, as always, to those in my Twitter timeline. • more
John Wyver writes: apologies for missing last week, but here's a new collection of stuff that I've found interesting and, in the case of the videos from #DNC2020, inspiring. Thanks, as always, to those in my Twitter timeline. • more
The 1960 documentary Primary is something of a tonic in a media world dominated, unaccountably and unacceptably, by the toxic D*n*ld Tr*mp. Here's how the excellent Richard Brody described the film recently for The New Yorker:
The modern documentary wasmore
The usual weekly selection of links to things I have found interesting to read and to watch over the past seven days. • The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & Associates - capturing the Kennedys: it's great news that more
I'm not quite committing yet to (a) posting regularly, or (b) returning to a regular Sunday links, but here are some pieces that I have appreciated over the past week or so: • The movies of my youth: Italo Calvino more
This is both irresistible and a touch magical: an eight-minute video courtesy of The Criterion Collection with Martin Scorsese talking about and demo-ing the recent restoration of Laurence Olivier's 1955 Richard III (above). Shot in VistaVision more