John Wyver writes: 'What's language, mummy?' a small boy asks actor Marina Vlady (above,. top) playing a waking Juliette Jeanson in Jean-Luc Godard's Wild Palms, the world premiere of which was held at London's ICA last night. More accurately, more
John Wyver writes: welcome to the end of an extraordinary week, which is reflected somewhat in today's selection of stuff that has engaged me in the past seven days; but there are also recommendations about television, film, literature and history more
John Wyver writes: welcome to the usual mix of articles and audio that captured my attention this past week. • Bite-sized Godard - read along with the French New Wave auteur: for MUBI Notebook, Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews a new volume more
John Wyver writes: a tiny present in the form of a short selection of readings and listenings, some seasonal and some not, that caught my attention over the past week. The image is 'The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah more
John Wyver writes: for this week's round-up of reading and viewing that has engaged me over the past week I tried to limit stuff related to Covid-19, but somehow that proved hard to do - the first links are all more
Links to interesting stuff that has caught my eye over the past week, with the usual thanks to Twitter recommenders and others. • Trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father: truly remarkable investigative reporting from more
I have just returned from a fascinating three-day trip to St Petersburg (of which more tomorrow), so the Links post is a day late . In other respects it is much as I try (but too often fail) to do more
I have been wrestling with how best to contribute regularly to this blog while I am much preoccupied with a number of productions and several more extended pieces of writing. Sunday links columns like this have been the only ones more
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 more
Raoul Coutard, the cinematographer best-known for his radical work on many of the key features films of the French new wave, has died at the age of 92. Coutard shot many of the films (including the heart-breakingly beautiful Pierrot le more