Sunday pilgrimage

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Great Sunday morning reading here, with your cuppa of choice

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OTD in early British television The second 'Guest Night' on Mon 28 Nov 1938 discussed houses, with modernist architects Serge Chermayeff and Maxwell Fry, along with one supposed inspiration for James Bond, Merlin Minshall. For more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

OTD in early British television The second 'Guest Night' on Mon 28 Nov 1938 discussed houses, with modernist architects Serge Chermayeff and Maxwell Fry, along with one supposed inspiration for James Bond, Merlin Minshall. For more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

Magic Rays season: the documentaries More on the screenings at BFI Southbank in January; go here for my first notes on the documentaries that we will screen on the 8th and 15th of the month. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...

The BBC... 'said the decision was made after it received legal advice.' Mr Bumble... 'The law is an ass.' www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Magic Rays season: the documentaries More on the screenings at BFI Southbank in January; go here for my first notes on the documentaries that we will screen on the 8th and 15th of the month. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...

At last! Our glorious recordings of Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! and Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty are finally available for streaming and digital download worldwide. For Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!, go here (and see comments for further links): www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/product/matt...

On the world premiere of Jean-Luc Godard's Wild Palms: a revelatory ICA screening, intro'd by Michael Witt, of JLG's 'proposition' for a William Faulkner adaptation, with an interlaced showing of Made in USA and Two of Three Things That I Know About Her. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/jean-luc-god...

“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.” 🗃️

Fascinating initial comments from John Wyver @illuminations.bsky.social after last night's Godard "world premiere" at ICA Cinema www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/jean-luc-god...

Boswell and his wife climb to the ‘top of an old building in Seven Dials’ and a studio ‘furnished with fruit boxes from Covent Garden.’ They are ‘greatly impressed because the electric light had been cut off and we sat in candlelight.’

On the world premiere of Jean-Luc Godard's Wild Palms: a revelatory ICA screening, intro'd by Michael Witt, of JLG's 'proposition' for a William Faulkner adaptation, with an interlaced showing of Made in USA and Two of Three Things That I Know About Her. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/jean-luc-god...

OTD in early British television 25 November 1937 saw short OBs from the Elstree film studios. This was day 3 of a 4-day visit, after outings to Pinewood and Denham. For more on these visits and on the relationship between film and television then, go to: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

OTD in early British television 25 November 1937 saw short OBs from the Elstree film studios. This was day 3 of a 4-day visit, after outings to Pinewood and Denham. For more on these visits and on the relationship between film and television then, go to: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

Marina Hyde on particularly fine form today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At last! Our glorious recordings of Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! and Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty are finally available for streaming and digital download worldwide. For Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!, go here (and see comments for further links): www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/product/matt...

An appalling decision.

Exciting news: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication on 8 January of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain. First details here... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...

Exciting news: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication on 8 January of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain. First details here... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...

The Sunday dozen on Monday morning. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Spike Lee at excellent q&a after screening of Highest2Lowest this morning - and just before he went to the derby. Loved the film (apart from maybe the final 15 minutes), which is a quintessential NYC movie, and a movie about NYC movies: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, French Coonection are its forbears.

Only too true. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

Today's Sunday dozen. The BBC and André Bazin, Penda's Fen and Blossoms Shanghai, Hilma af Klint and Echo Delay Reverb, pity and fear, Gertrude Stein and Iris Murdoch. And Joan Baez. With a detail of a painting I wanted to steal from the Courtauld. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Today's Sunday dozen. The BBC and André Bazin, Penda's Fen and Blossoms Shanghai, Hilma af Klint and Echo Delay Reverb, pity and fear, Gertrude Stein and Iris Murdoch. And Joan Baez. With a detail of a painting I wanted to steal from the Courtauld. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Terrific from @paul-hayes.bsky.social - and do click through the main post as well.

Well this spectacular England collapse was well worth getting up for!

'By the end the key takeaway from TNT’s coverage of the Ashes was: here we have a bunch of people making the best of a frankly shonky production.' @barneyronay.bsky.social absolutely on the money re Day One. Good job the cricket itself was so compelling. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

‘Australia trails…’ or ‘Australia trail…’; I would have thought the latter #Ashes #pedantry

These digital ads imposed on the side shots in #Ashes coverage make the space of the field feel really strange.

Australia 28 for 2 - is that you, Hope, that I can hear?

First hour done. Was it worth it? Is it all over? Ashes.

“I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand.” Three down. Ashes. What else?

Here’s that side shot with three brands. Not the BBC is it?

Neat new tech at TNT Sports

… and three more (!) brands, electronically imposed, in the less-often-used side shot @TNT Sports.

Four (!) on-field brands in the wide shots at TNT Sports coverage…

Here we go

Are we excited? Are we? We most definitely are!!! www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

Are we excited? Are we? We most definitely are!!! www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

This is a general point about the immigration debate. Everyone talks about the narratives and their political consequences. Too few talk about the reality on the ground, the good and the bad.

Very good from Diane Taylor 'There is consensus that our immigration system needs to be firmly controlled, but as Labour MP Sarah Owen says, “a strong immigration system doesn’t need to be a cruel one”. Instead of enforcing these cruel and ineffective policies,... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Sunday dozen for Monday morning. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Today's Sunday dozen. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Today's Sunday dozen. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

Excellent from @arusbridger.bsky.social - demands to be read

The 100 greatest men’s Ashes cricketers of all time This has given me enormous pleasure over the past week, and ther's really not much to argue about in the Top 5 choice of Warne / Bradman / Botham / McGrath / Lillee www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...

The WAC campaign to date More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong. cstonline.net/defending-th...