John Wyver writes: the weekend's selection of articles, audio and video that especially engaged me over the past week. • The dinner party that started the Harlem Renaissance: a wonderful slice of archival research about a 1924 New York dinner more
John Wyver writes: the usual twelve recommendations from a busy week when we celebrated in style the life of my mother-in-law, Beryl Paterson, at her cremation. • The Getty makes nearly 88,000 art images free to use however you like: more
John Wyver writes: this week's selection of writings and audio begins with links related to some especially sad news, before embracing a remarkable new open access publication, a great new podcast, a number of excellent essays and resources, and an more
John Wyver writes: It's a long time since I compiled the weekly 'Sunday links' - indeed it's a long time since I wrote anything substantial here. But with the changing circumstances for the company (see News, below), I'm minded, more
Links to articles and videos that have caught my eye over the past week or so - thanks, as always, to those who alerted me to many of them. • A long overdue light on black models of early modernism: more
A day late, I know, but here's this week's list of links to articles that I've found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as always to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in more
Andrew Saladino's video essay about the cinematography in Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds, 1959, isn't the most innovative or the most profound or the most theoretically rigorous analysis of this kind. But it is beautifully assembled, is genuinely informative more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 1932 - MGM invents the future (part 1): one of David Bordwell's exceptional posts about cinema history and poetics, in this more
Although there is no sign of this here, I have been thinking a lot about a new direction for this blog. I have remarkably downtime at the moment and I'm all too aware that I am not posting regularly. The more
I'm not going to apologise for leading again with Randy Moore's Escape from Tomorrow(above), the Sundance-premiered film that was shot in secret at Disney World and Disneyland. I particularly want to draw your attention to It's a mad, mad, more