13th December 2020
John Wyver writes: another clutch of pointers to articles, videos and the occasional Twitter feed that have engaged and enlightened and delighted me during the past week - and with thanks, as always, to those on my Twitter who suggest
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30th September 2018
Today's links to interesting stuff that has attracted my attention over the past week or so, with thanks to Twitter recommenders. You will doubtless be delighted to see that I have once again worked out how to embed videos.
• They
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9th September 2018
A slightly fuller list of links (and a perhaps moderately more considered one) after last week's tentative return to this format, with a clutch of articles that I have found fascinating and enriching. Many thanks to all those who alerted me
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15th May 2016
Back from a week's walking in Italy, I am happy to propose today's links to stuff that I have found interesting and useful over the past week; I'll contribute some additional ones later today.
• Remembering John Krish, 1923-2016: touching tributes from three BFI
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18th May 2015
• Listen up: Nick Pinkerton for Artforum on Japan Speaks Out!: Early Japanese Talkies at New York's Museum of Modern Art, including (above) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, 1931, directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
• Orson Welles and
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11th August 2013
Continuing this weekend's British cinema theme (see Ealing before Ealing here), my first recommendation has to be for Xan Brooks' delightful Guardian essay and video A pilgrim's progress: on the trail of A Canterbury Tale. Brooks
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19th March 2013
Early television programmes do not get anything like the attention they deserve. In part this is because very few such programmes - and I am thinking here of television before the mid-1950s - have been preserved. But even those that
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1st February 2013
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
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