PUTNEY DEBATER
A personal blog
Savvy
Spent or good deal of time setting this up. The theory is that a new website using my service provider to host WordPress will be easier to maintain and keep up to date than a static site, especially when mobile. But the truth is that for all the bells and whistles, it’s typographically more limited, and you certainly have to think differently about the way it works. For anyone thinking of doing something similar, don’t use Safari – it’s not up to it. I lost a few hours before switching to Firefox, and then it went pretty smoothly, although it was still very finnickity.
Why did I do it? Because when I was checking my web site traffic statistics, which I hadn’t done for a long time, I discovered that it had risen to several thousand hits per month. So thank you, dear reader, for this encouragement, and I hope you find the new version useful.
The main differences from the old site are the redesign, which now includes a news page, and since I’ve been uploading a lot of stuff to Vimeo, the incorporation of lots of video. I expect I’ll add stuff in due course.
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Demise of Film Council
There is something very seriously rotten in the State when the Government can decide to abolish the Film Council to save £15m a year at the same time that the head of BP is said to be about to take a severance package of approaching the same amount. The disparity is all the more striking when you register that while BP is writing off more than £20 billion to pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Film Council has been responsible for allocating a mere £160m of Lottery funding to more than 900 films which have entertained over 200 million people and helped to generate over £700 million at the box office worldwide, or almost £5 for every £1 of Lottery money thus invested. Read more
Rocha on DVD
Glauber Rocha’s Antônio das Mortes is surely one of the most astonishing films to come out of Brazil in the 1960s…
See my review of the new DVD release in Sight & Sound here