Sunday links
John Wyver writes: I'm not sure quite how the holidays and any additional lockdown strictures will impact Sunday links over the next couple of Sundays, so make the most of this clutch of stuff that has engaged me over the more
John Wyver writes: I'm not sure quite how the holidays and any additional lockdown strictures will impact Sunday links over the next couple of Sundays, so make the most of this clutch of stuff that has engaged me over the more
John Wyver writes: Yesterday was #MuseumFromHome day, which was co-ordinated as part of the very welcome Culture in Quarantine initiative from BBC Arts. Developed alongside the Museums in Quarantine films, two of which I wrote about more
John Wyver writes: this week's collection of links to interesting articles and videos, with grateful thanks to all those who alerted me via Twitter and in other ways. The great American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank died this week. As for more
John Wyver writes: To BFI Southbank on Thursday for a screening of the 1949 British film The Lost People, which proved to be almost laughably poor and entirely fascinating. There are three strands to just why I got so much more
John Wyver writes:Tomorrow night (less than four weeks from the scheduled B-Day), at 18.15 on Tuesday 7, I'm chairing a panel at BFI Southbank (tickets here, although there are not many left) with actor Cherie Lunghi (who is more
We may have been neglecting the blog - and once again we'll try hard to do better - but nonetheless we've been busy in the past months. Looking forward, here are details of a clutch of forthcoming events involving Illuminations more
On Tuesday night BFI Southbank screens a film that is, for me, one of the singular masterpieces of television drama, Richard Eyre's film Country from a script by Trevor Griffiths. Made for BBC Television in 1981, this rarely-seen 80-minute drama more
John Wyver writes: Earlier today I spoke on a panel at the Archives, Access and Research conference at BFI Southbank. Co-organised by the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway, University of more
In this week's Sunday links I highlighted a recent audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin about the cinema of Roman Polanski. Today, I want to give slightly more attention to their latest creation, the 12-minute 'A more
I have had a hugely enjoyable morning viewing a 16mm combined optical print on a 4 plate Steenbeck flat bed. The substance of what I watched must wait for a future post, since here I want simply to celebrate the pleasure provided by the wonderful Steenbeck. more