John Wyver writes: despite, or because of, the disappointing compromise in Glasgow last night, the state of the world is no better this weekend than last, but instead of gloom-and-doom political pieces I thought I'd begin this week's list of more
With four days of holidays stretching ahead, here are some suggestions of streaming and download treats from Illuminations. New titles are now available including Being Shakespeare, Art of Faith II and Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize-winning speech, Art, Truth & Politics. more
John Wyver with links to recent stuff about what we can still just about call television. The cinematic in contemporary television and media: a strong set of selected clips with accompanying short essays from in media res:
moreLinks to articles and videos that have caught my eye over the past week or so - thanks, as always, to those who alerted me to many of them. • A long overdue light on black models of early modernism: more
In the early evening on Tuesday and Thursday of this coming week, 2 and 4 October, Mark Rylance performs Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics as part of the excellent 'Pinter at the Pinter' season. These charity more
Thanks to the eclectic and extraordinarily extensive DVD releases from Network we can now see a remarkable range of ITV programmes from the past forty or so years. Who would have thought that the obscure serial more