Claire West
@magentabias.bsky.social
Cinema/music/theatre/art.
Film conservator at BFI National Archive. Opinions own.
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Film conservator at BFI National Archive. Opinions own.
https://boxd.it/9PCJ
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Tom Cruise pays a visit to the BFI National Archive
The Hollywood star and BFI Fellow, who won an honorary Oscar on Sunday, was shown a selection of the BFI’s archival treasures and shared his passion for the craft of filmmaking with our archivists.
www.bfi.org.uk
I got to meet TOM CRUISE when he visited the #BFI National Archive recently, (he was lovely) 🤩🤩
www.bfi.org.uk/news/tom-cru...
www.bfi.org.uk/news/tom-cru...
I got to meet TOM CRUISE when he visited the #BFI National Archive recently, (he was lovely) 🤩🤩
www.bfi.org.uk/news/tom-cru...
www.bfi.org.uk/news/tom-cru...
Tom Cruise pays a visit to the BFI National Archive
The Hollywood star and BFI Fellow, who won an honorary Oscar on Sunday, was shown a selection of the BFI’s archival treasures and shared his passion for the craft of filmmaking with our archivists.
www.bfi.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I got to meet TOM CRUISE when he visited the #BFI National Archive recently, (he was lovely) 🤩🤩
www.bfi.org.uk/news/tom-cru...
www.bfi.org.uk/news/tom-cru...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Spent this evening watching Stereophonic (AKA the Fleetwood Mac story). Sporadically entertaining with some well performed songs, but a bit one dimensional & (like the album they’re recording) desperately in need of some editing. The sound engineer guy steals the show. #theatresky
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Spent this evening watching Stereophonic (AKA the Fleetwood Mac story). Sporadically entertaining with some well performed songs, but a bit one dimensional & (like the album they’re recording) desperately in need of some editing. The sound engineer guy steals the show. #theatresky
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Wishing a very happy birthday to the matchless Martin Scorsese. ❤️❤️❤️ A director who has not only spent decades making some of the greatest films of all time, but has been an indefatigable cinephile dedicated to expanding the horizons of movie lovers around the world! ❤️❤️❤️
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Wishing a very happy birthday to the matchless Martin Scorsese. ❤️❤️❤️ A director who has not only spent decades making some of the greatest films of all time, but has been an indefatigable cinephile dedicated to expanding the horizons of movie lovers around the world! ❤️❤️❤️
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So pleased have curated a film tribute to the late Peter Watkins with ICA London. First up, 22 Nov, his film Privilege, a swinging 60s artefact which hobbles the swinging. At its centre, a rock-star-as-empty-messiah, played by Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones. More soon!
www.ica.art/films/peter-...
www.ica.art/films/peter-...
ICA | Peter Watkins: Privilege + introduction
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...
www.ica.art
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So pleased have curated a film tribute to the late Peter Watkins with ICA London. First up, 22 Nov, his film Privilege, a swinging 60s artefact which hobbles the swinging. At its centre, a rock-star-as-empty-messiah, played by Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones. More soon!
www.ica.art/films/peter-...
www.ica.art/films/peter-...
The BFI National Archive appeared as a photoshoot location in October’s issue of Vogue, featuring the Rizwan brothers.
We had fun doing our own version for the #BFI Insta.
I am wearing: shirt - secondhand, tank top - knitted by Mum, trousers - vintage Topshop, trainers - Converse 😎
We had fun doing our own version for the #BFI Insta.
I am wearing: shirt - secondhand, tank top - knitted by Mum, trousers - vintage Topshop, trainers - Converse 😎
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The BFI National Archive appeared as a photoshoot location in October’s issue of Vogue, featuring the Rizwan brothers.
We had fun doing our own version for the #BFI Insta.
I am wearing: shirt - secondhand, tank top - knitted by Mum, trousers - vintage Topshop, trainers - Converse 😎
We had fun doing our own version for the #BFI Insta.
I am wearing: shirt - secondhand, tank top - knitted by Mum, trousers - vintage Topshop, trainers - Converse 😎
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The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition.
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
October 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition.
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/
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God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. Legend of Japanese cinema.
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. Legend of Japanese cinema.
Visited the @realgdt.bsky.social #Frankenstein exhibition yesterday. It always blows my mind when I get to see up close the incredible collaborative craft & artistry that goes into filmmaking. The Magic of The Movies! #filmsky
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Visited the @realgdt.bsky.social #Frankenstein exhibition yesterday. It always blows my mind when I get to see up close the incredible collaborative craft & artistry that goes into filmmaking. The Magic of The Movies! #filmsky
Loved The Line of Beauty at the Almeida. A funny, moving dissection of 80s England; class & politics, love & sex, excess & ugliness. The cast is flawless. #theatresky
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Loved The Line of Beauty at the Almeida. A funny, moving dissection of 80s England; class & politics, love & sex, excess & ugliness. The cast is flawless. #theatresky
#DRAGONFLY is released in select cinemas this weekend. What starts out as a touching, social realist drama, slowly builds a horrible sense of unease and gets very dark. An under the radar Brit gem with superb performances from Brenda Blethyn & Andrea Riseborough. #filmsky
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#DRAGONFLY is released in select cinemas this weekend. What starts out as a touching, social realist drama, slowly builds a horrible sense of unease and gets very dark. An under the radar Brit gem with superb performances from Brenda Blethyn & Andrea Riseborough. #filmsky
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We made a John Crops for Halloween! Maybe he’ll come alive and sing us a sad song.
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We made a John Crops for Halloween! Maybe he’ll come alive and sing us a sad song.
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ANNOUNCEMENT. Lost Reels returns to The ICA with the Best Christmas War Film you’ve never seen – Keith Gordon’s superlative A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (1992). Completely unavailable in the UK and followed by a Q&A with writer/director Keith Gordon. Tickets here: ica.art/films/a-midnight-clear-q-a
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT. Lost Reels returns to The ICA with the Best Christmas War Film you’ve never seen – Keith Gordon’s superlative A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (1992). Completely unavailable in the UK and followed by a Q&A with writer/director Keith Gordon. Tickets here: ica.art/films/a-midnight-clear-q-a
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Despite selling out our entire run in York, London sales for THE SIGNAL-MAN & THE TRIAL FOR MURDER are still a bit slow. We've got six showings between 31st October and 2nd November. A very classic Halloween treat, I'd argue - and in Charles Dickens's (probably definitely haunted) house!
October 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Despite selling out our entire run in York, London sales for THE SIGNAL-MAN & THE TRIAL FOR MURDER are still a bit slow. We've got six showings between 31st October and 2nd November. A very classic Halloween treat, I'd argue - and in Charles Dickens's (probably definitely haunted) house!
Had an excellent #LFF this year, not a bad film among this lot. Roughly listed in preference, but not much between the first 6.
Thanks #BFI!
#filmsky #letterboxd
Thanks #BFI!
#filmsky #letterboxd
October 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Had an excellent #LFF this year, not a bad film among this lot. Roughly listed in preference, but not much between the first 6.
Thanks #BFI!
#filmsky #letterboxd
Thanks #BFI!
#filmsky #letterboxd
#LFF NOUVELLE VAGUE - Linklater LFF double bill part 2. The most purely entertaining film of the festival. A joyous homage to the French New Wave, that looks & feels incredibly authentic, with some absolutely miraculous casting. Was there ever a cooler looking bunch of film nerds? #filmsky
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#LFF BLUE MOON - (Linklater LFF double bill part 1.) Ethan Hawke is brilliant in this, playing Hart as a desperate figure drowning in booze & hopeless infatuations, whilst spitting out an endless string of witty one liners. Laugh out loud funny and painfully melancholic. #filmsky
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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If you don't want Thames Water to be allowed to ILLEGALLY pollute for 15 years ⁉️
And you don't want the other privatised English water companies copying them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDs...
If you don't want Thames Water to be allowed to ILLEGALLY pollute for 15 years ⁉️
And you don't want the other privatised English water companies copying them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDs...
Illegal sewage until 2040?!?
YouTube video by We Own It
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October 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
📢1 day to go - add your name TODAY so that Ofwat sees it tomorrow weownit.org.uk/ofwat
If you don't want Thames Water to be allowed to ILLEGALLY pollute for 15 years ⁉️
And you don't want the other privatised English water companies copying them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDs...
If you don't want Thames Water to be allowed to ILLEGALLY pollute for 15 years ⁉️
And you don't want the other privatised English water companies copying them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDs...
#LFF NO OTHER CHOICE -
Wasn’t expecting this to be quite so madcap. Slickly directed but overlong black comedy in the vein of Parasite, with a bleak punchline & great turn from Lee Byung-hun. Anyone know if the toothache was a reference to Korean classic Aimless Bullet? #filmsky
Wasn’t expecting this to be quite so madcap. Slickly directed but overlong black comedy in the vein of Parasite, with a bleak punchline & great turn from Lee Byung-hun. Anyone know if the toothache was a reference to Korean classic Aimless Bullet? #filmsky
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
October 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
#LFF THE SECRET AGENT - A film full of sharks. Took a while to get into this but once it gains focus it doesn’t let up. Like a weird relation to I’m Still Here. Evocative production design & some brilliant looking characters in the cast. Loved its love of cinemas too. Glad that kid got to watch Jaws
October 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#LFF THE SECRET AGENT - A film full of sharks. Took a while to get into this but once it gains focus it doesn’t let up. Like a weird relation to I’m Still Here. Evocative production design & some brilliant looking characters in the cast. Loved its love of cinemas too. Glad that kid got to watch Jaws