John Wyver writes: More politics than usual, perhaps, among things that have engaged my attention in the past seven days. There are several very good film reads too, and modern and contemporary music, along with a recommended podcast interview. The more
The usual weekly offering of links to articles and videos that I have found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as usual to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in other ways, and more
Paintings glimpsed in movies are often fascinating, and invariably so when they exhibit modernist tendencies. Take a look at the painting below that is granted just two seconds or so in the British Gothic melodrama Madness of the Heart, 1949 (a detail of more
To BFI Southbank last night for a showing of a rarely-screened British film from 1947 that I'd never even heard of. The White Unicorn (known in the States as Bad Sister) is almost entirely absent from the literature about post-war cinema - more