Sunday links
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
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
The past week has been even worse for the world than the one before, but here is a list of links not totally dominated by the hideousness across the Atlantic, the hideousness at home, and the hideousness of the two more
A song for today. 'The greatest song ever written about America... and what's so great about it is, it gets right to the heart of what our country is supposed to be about." Live at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, 30 September, more
Another fortnight and another missed Sunday links last weekend. Apologies, but I hope today's list of articles and videos that I've found interesting recently goes some way to making amends. As usual, many of these have been highlighted on Twitter and more
I missed a links post last Sunday and other entries over the past fortnight have been only sporadic. I can only plead busy-ness in the preparation for the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcasts of Cymbeline, ten days ago, and King Lear, more
To start Sunday links, this... • My vote: Roger Angell for The New Yorker. ... and this... • The road ahead: Kirk Douglas for The Huffington Post. ... and this, from Joss Whedon and friends (which you'll have seen but which is more
It's been a week of Hamlet, the live cinema broadcast of which I produced for the RSC on Wednesday, and also of talking about Kenneth Clark's television at a BFI Southbank screening on Thursday and a Broadcasting the Arts: more
Each day I try to highlight just three things. Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • The River - a new authenticity: a very fine essay by Ian Christie for Criterion on Jean Renoir's more
• Alice Guy's Paris films - film by film, location by location: a truly wonderful and wonderfully visual post from The Cine-Tourist about the scenes in silent films by the pioneering filmmaker. • The eeriness more
Some reading and viewing for a post-Turkey moment or two... Happy Christmas! • Blue Christmas, by Michael Koresky and Casey Moore, from The Criterion Collection: Blue Christmas - An Original Video Essay from Criterion Collection on Vimeo. • more