The Sunday dozen
John Wyver writes: welcome to this week's selection of stuff that I've enjoyed and been enriched by over the past week. • Frank Stella went from Bauhaus to fun house: such a great appraisal by Deborah Solomon for The New more
John Wyver writes: welcome to this week's selection of stuff that I've enjoyed and been enriched by over the past week. • Frank Stella went from Bauhaus to fun house: such a great appraisal by Deborah Solomon for The New more
John Wyver writes: Here's another brief, random note about a cultural object that I've encountered in the past few days, in this case Fritz Lang's Western with Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney, which I saw at what I persist in more
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 more
Once more, I return to the blog with, I hope, sufficient energy to see us through at least part of the autumn. So to start with, as I've contributed in the past (even if not too often recently) here are more
A holiday Sunday links to articles that I have found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as usual to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in other ways, and apologies for the absence of appropriate more
As usual this a selection of articles and more that have engaged me recently; it is presented with my regular apology for not including appropriate thanks to those who alerted me to some of them. • Worse than a defeat: if more
Since we have been offline for a month and more, this is a longer (and later)-than-usual selection of articles and more that have engaged me over during that time, with the usual apologies for not including appropriate thanks to more
Long ago and far away - in the autumn of 1971, I believe, and in Canterbury - I fell in love. The obscure object of my desire was Cinema, and two inamorata vied for my affections. One was the collective more
On Thursday night BFI Southbank screened Roland Joffé's 1980 BBC television adaptation of John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. This was shown as part of 'Classics on TV: Jacobean tragedy on the small screen', a season of television more
Let's start with the first trailer, released this week, for Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing (a still from which is above). Might he just have pulled off something truly special? For further background on the film, which opens in more