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
We're thrilled to announce a new version of our best-selling film, Macbeth, now with subtitles across the main film, extras and director's commentary. We are committed to ensuring that our films are accessible to all and every new Illuminations more
Today I went, by appointment, to what they call a carrel in Rare Books and Manuscripts at The British Library. My carrel was a little room with a glass wall, rather fierce air-conditioning and some headphones. An immensely more
Courtesy of The Notebook at mubi.com and the Spanish film magazine Transit comes The Melville Variations, great video+text essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin about the films of the great French director Jean-Pierre Melville. more
So I was thinking I would find something a bit different as the lead for this week's Links. Not Shakespeare again, nor movies or television. Then I read one of the scariest pieces of prose to have come my way more
A selection of interesting videos that I came across during the past week and - well, that's it really... Above is an image from the Saul Bass title sequence to Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954), a film discussed by Christian more