Earlier this month I became British. The citizenship ceremony, officiated by the mayor of my London borough, Haringey, was a perfectly British combination of chintz and ceremony, and was genuinely moving. Happy to call this place my home.

Today is the tenth anniversary of Firewatch's release. It remains the thing I'm most proud to have worked on. There's more of me inside of Firewatch than in any other game—and I have no doubt there are others on the team who would say the same about themselves. Thanks to everyone who ever played it.

Such a sadness. In Our Time is a truly wide-ranging, informative and accessible exploration of human expression and knowledge—a total justification of public service broadcasting. Through it Melvyn Bragg is among the most influential people on my inner life as an adult. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

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I watched Jacques Tati’s PlayTime, knowing essentially nothing about it—it’s a precise, hypnotic, very strange, and very humane film. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and it’s remarkable that it exists at all! boxd.it/99PAzr

A review of PlayTime (1967)

I’ve never seen anything quite like this—as though Koyaanisqatsi had been adapted from Where’s Waldo, set entirely within an intricate snow globe the size of a city block. PlayTime seems to set out to...

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There's nothing unique I can say about David Lynch, but his death is a great sadness to me. He was an artist of unimpeachable integrity, a particularly extraordinary achievement in commercial media like film and television. His body of work is strange and primeval and beautiful.