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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 21h

I met Bagpuss & friends! The Smallfilms exhibition at Canterbury’s Beaney museum is full of gentle handmade creations. It stirred such strong, happy childhood memories that I was moved to tears. Pure magic.

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Trump has pledged to give a "Trump dividend" of $5,000 to every US citizen if Republicans win November's midterm elections.” Hmmm, where have I heard that before?? 🤔

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A day of murder, revenge and diabolical schemes, courtesy of the Claude Chabrol season at #BFI Southbank. Fantastique! #filmsky #letterboxd

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 02/09/2026

The BFI London Film Festival 2026 programme has been revealed! Everyone is invited 7-18 October. Experience the world’s best new films at The Prince Charles Cinema and other cinemas in London and around the UK. #LFF Full Programme: buff.ly/Y3Ssx5V

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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama She made the heavens swirl.

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 26/08/2026

The Reaper’s scythe takes Dolly, and now Tim Curry, but lets legions of geriatric villains continue to work evil and wreak havoc. This timeline sucks shit.

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Highly recommend Tao of Glass @sohoplace theatre - a moving, entrancing evening of storytelling, music and puppetry. #theatresky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Spent the day in NFT1 watching the incredibly moving La Maison des Bois. If you love life, art, film, I urge you not to miss this at the cinema, it’s a sublime masterwork. I had so much affection for the characters, I would’ve happily spent another 6 hrs with them. #filmsky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Watched The Odyssey at the weekend the way that Zeus intended - in IMAX 70mm at #BFI IMAX. An epic night at the movies! #filmsky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

During my trip to Brighton & Lewes last weekend, I visited Charleston house & gardens. Home to artists Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury Group, they transformed every room into a work of art. A fabulous, inspiring place. #artsky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just about coming down after last weekend’s Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds gig in Brighton. The band were on awesome, ferocious form playing to a rapt crowd. Also great to see The Flaming Lips again in support. An unforgettable, transcendent experience. #musicsky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Loved the silliness of the Goodies, especially the daft songs by Bill Oddie

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Throughly enjoyed Rome Express at BFI Southbank last night, if only all train journeys were this much fun

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Matthew Turner @filmfan1971.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Delighted to be able to announce the line-up for my third Noirvember mini-season at The Chiswick Cinema. Particularly pleased to be screening both Farewell, My Lovely and The Narrow Margin. Book early to avoid disappointment, etc. Tickets available here: www.chiswickcinema.co.uk/noirvember-2...

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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🎬 BIG NEWS! San Francisco Film Preserve is bringing the inaugural Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery to the historic Roxie Theater from September 24–27! filmpreserve.org/rev... 1/5

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

War Horse at the National Theatre is every bit as moving and magical as it was when I first saw it staged there nearly 20 years ago, left in tears again. #theatresky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Any week that contains not just one, but two Divine Comedy gigs, is a very special week indeed 🤩 Fabulous support from George Houston too. @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social @aylesburywaterside.bsky.social @southbankcentre.bsky.social

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Archduke at the Royal Court theatre - a dark farce of radicalisation, nationalism, misogyny, toxic masculinity…it’s all so 1914. Es Devlin’s set design is outstanding.

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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 10/07/2026

Wishing a happy birthday to Neil who is 72 today! Photo: Chris #PetText

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It’s the 30 year anniversary of Pioneer Soundtracks by Jack, one of the best albums you’ve, maybe never, heard. Criminally overlooked back in the mid-90s, its timeless magnificence has not faded. #musicsky youtu.be/agQaQV98ek8

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Filthy Names

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Time to take my mind of the weather and crack on with that retrospective article I've been commissioned to write on ... oh ...

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Another lovely day for a matinee at the #Almeida, I went out of the sunshine to see Under the Shadow. A really well staged adaptation, all the more chilling for how horribly timely it feels. #theatresky

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Jay Gunn/Wilson @gunnwriter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The first day of dev production on my new game. Adapted from my illustrated industrial folk horror novel “Coal Face - The devil in the smoke.” The art style is in keeping with the book and the era of the setting. Lots of original gameplay surprises to come! The journey begins. More news to come!

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A swelteringly hot night of jungle blues with the great CW Stoneking at Islington Assembly Hall #musicsky

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LostReelsUK @lostreelsuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT. The LOST REELS ALL DAY FILM EVENT is on Sunday Sept 13th at The Cinema Museum! FOUR films that exemplify the Lost Reels brand: • Missing in Action • Forgotten Classics • Special 35mm Presentations • Midnight Movies More details coming soon! HOLD THE DATE!!!

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Eoin Marron @eoinmarron.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Fantastic line-up for @cineredis.bsky.social 2026; Dante's THE MOVIE ORGY + MATINEE, new restorations of LEAVING LAS VEGAS and Buscemi's massively overlooked TREES LOUNGE, a Burnett, two Tarkovskys, and a strand of non-superhero comics adaptations - to name a few! www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

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Cinema Rediscovered 2026 | Programme | Watershed

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It was a great honour to meet the one & only Guillermo del Toro during his #BFI Fellowship tour of the Archive this week and show him a reel of our nitrate print of The Magnificent Ambersons, one of his favourite films 🤩 Photos by Tim Whitby.

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just finished reading The Gate by Natsume Soseki. A melancholic, beautifully written story of static lives and changing seasons, with some lovely moments of humour. Thanks @jacquiwine.bsky.social for the recommendation, it really was like reading an Ozu film. #booksky

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sir David Attenborough… on your 100th birthday, we thank you. For a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with such grace and wonder. Generations have fallen in love with nature because of you. Happy birthday, Sir. 🎉

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

At #BFI Southbank today for Hunted on #35mm. Dirk Bogarde stars in this terrific man on the run thriller, hiding in the noirish shadows of postwar London & the Scottish Highlands, with kidnapped child in tow. Screening again with Humphrey Jennings’ A Diary for Timothy on 11 May. #filmsky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Strolling along Upper Street on a sunny Saturday afternoon and watching a brilliant play at the Almeida will always be one of life’s little pleasures for me.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This - which appears to speak to me on many different levels - looks incredibly interesting...

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Finally got to watch Sirat last night. Impressive tension building & a couple of horribly shocking moments that actually made me swear out loud 😱 Think Wages of Fear with ravers & a sad dad. Incredible sound design, so glad I experienced this large & loud at Odyssey cinema St Albans.

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction: Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis has led the Internati...

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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Genuinely unpredictable set of rarely performed album tracks & B-sides at last night’s #PetShopBoys gig at Electric Ballroom. Ranging from singalong favourites to rediscovered gems, this was a very special night where I felt lucky to be ‘One of the Crowd’,(not on the setlist unfortunately) #musicsky

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A lovely Easter weekend in Cambridge. Visited the beautiful house & art gallery, #Kettle’sYard, a place to dream & enrich the soul. Was fascinated to see so many works by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, whose biopic, Savage Messiah, I had watched earlier in the week, (Kettle’s Yard gets a credit). #artsky

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" ― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I have an aversion to hype, being a naturally impressionable sort who has been stung too many times, but the BFI’s noisy recent championing of the largely forgotten British B movie, Strongroom (1962), is totally justified. Banger.

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I do love a good dacha drama, so I had a great time with Summerfolk @nationaltheatre.org.uk A vibrant adaptation, fabulously staged and performed to perfection by a wonderful ensemble. #theatresky

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Matthew Turner @filmfan1971.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Some good news! I’m curating / introducing a #PreCode double bill of Scarface (1932) and Female (1933) at the Chiswick Cinema on April 8th. All shares appreciated. Tell your friends! Etc. #PreCodeApril

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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

MFC Chicken rockin’ the joint at the Crooked Crow Bar in Leighton Buzzard last night. These guys are dynamite! I don’t need to know the question, chicken is the answer. #musicsky

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A birthday weekend of wonders! - Wes Anderson Archives, Design Museum - Into the Woods, Bridge Theatre - Starling murmuration, Tring reservoir - Natural History Museum, Tring

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

An evening of beautiful music at the Barbican last night in the company of Andrew Bird & the Britten Sinfonia performing The Mysterious Production of Eggs.

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Left cold by the production of Man and Boy at the National. Couldn’t get on with the staging at all, it was just actors jumping on and off tables for 2 hours. Sorry, but not for me. #theatresky

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Dirty Business has made it crystal clear - it's just UNACCEPTABLE for our water to be run for profit for shareholders and creditors In public ownership, Thames Water could be accountable to households, workers, anti sewage groups, local councillors 👇 weownit.org.uk/blog/what-co...

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What could Thames Water look like in public ownership?

1) A supervisory governing board with representatives from households, workers, communities, environmental groups, local councils and water experts.

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