Arena: Dylan in the Madhouse
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 by TJ Worthington · Comments Off
“Come gather round, people, and hear what I say, ’bout the time Bob Dylan was in a BBC play, we’d all like to see it but they threw it away, and the tape it is a-missing”. Read more
Arena at 30
Saturday, September 3, 2005 by Ian Jones · Comments Off
Of all the ways to celebrate your 30th birthday, proffering viewers a couple of scanned pages from Broadcast magazine is perhaps erring a little too much on the wrong side of decency. Read more
Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip
Sunday, July 2, 2000 by David Sheldrick · Comments Off
Drug addiction, sexual dysfunction, spiraling violence, the corruption of childhood innocence , suicide, adultery… the very stuff of Millennial angst and the staple diet of sensationalist tabloids, but are these phenomena unique to our own times? This was one of the questions which anyone viewing James Marsh’s extraordinary film for Arena must have asked themselves. Read more
Arena: The Veil
Saturday, May 20, 2000 by Steve Williams · Comments Off
Yes, it’s still going. I rather thought that Arena had ended ages ago, because I haven’t seen any extensive theme nights or overlong documentaries for a while. But no, the familiar “message in a bottle” title sequence introduced the documentary, and this wasn’t the only old-fashioned motif in the programme. Read more