6th December 2025
John Wyver writes: My colleagues James Jordan and Eleni Liarou and I are a week or so away from finalising the programme for the symposium about the filmmaker Robert Vas to be held at Birkbeck, University of London, on
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25th October 2020
John Wyver writes: The world gets worse (and will, for at least another 9 sleeps), but hopefully Sunday links stays much the same. My thanks to those in my Twitter feed who continue to recommend so much great stuff for
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19th August 2016
So for those of you who have even just a passing interest in films about the arts, this is GREAT. The online service BFIPlayer today launches The Arts on Film, a collection of more than a hundred feature
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1st September 2013
I am not sure if Jonathan Bate's list of 100+ of the Best Books on Shakespeare has been around for a good while, but it's new to me - and that feels like sufficient reason to feature it
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1st December 2012
While I have been reading (and enjoying) Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-55, a major new book by Sarah Street from BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, two key posts have appeared that render a touch redundant what
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30th July 2012
The terrific filmmaker, our friend and occasional collaborator Paul Tickell contributed this wonderful response to Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony as a 'Comment' to one of our posts over the weekend. But it deserves a far wider readership than that,
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