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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Favourite British films: A Canterbury Tale The Red Shoes I Know Where I’m Going! A Matter of Life and Death The Small Back Room There are others, but you should go with your heart on these things.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was as every bit good as I wanted to be; especially from someone who desperately wanted to glide through life and keep herself contained. You can’t help but feel like you’re intruding as you read it.

A copy of Anita Brookner: Art & Life by Hermione Lee

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First time watching this quite-good-n-it’s-own-way film for 25 years or so and it is genuinely shocking to read how many films I have never heard of Edward Burns has directed since.

A blu-ray copy of She’s the One by Edward Burns

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Top Ten of ‘71 The Last Movie Vanishing Point Carnal Knowledge The Devils Little Murders Play Misty for Me McCabe & Mrs Miller Quest for Love Duel Klute

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Batman Day (which social media is telling me is a thing)!

A black and white painting of Robert Pattinson as Batman. I think I did this one mostly in liquid charcoal.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I understand food trends are a thing, but it does seem odd to me to be pitching *black pudding* as a healthy option…

A packet of black pudding, a product made of blood and fat, being sold as being high in protein and iron

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don’t think I’ve ever received a piece of post that quite so perfectly sums up my entire cultural interests

Two books: The Doctor Who Production Diary - The Troughton Years by David Brunt and Anita Brookner - Art & Life by Hermione Lee

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Loved this. It starts with a boar loose in a shop and then becomes something very, very different.

A hardback copy of The Girls by John Bowen

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fantastic to see The Hay Wain as part of Ipswich’s Constable 250 celebration. Seeing all the preparatory work leading to it was great; it only really came together for him when he started painting at scale. A very noisy and busy exhibition though.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: This, and only this, illustration by John Tenniel known to me and my sister as ‘Alice Long-Neck’.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some old paintings of mine seem to be getting some attention over the last few days. I haven’t painted for a good few years at this point, but I’d like to share this one of Diana Ross.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Funny to see how The Social Reckoning is now being marketed as a thriller… how drastic were those reshoots?

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was very taken with this. I found it constantly and gently surprising and I’ve rarely read a book which managed the passing of time so well. A real highlight of my reading summer.

A paperback copy of ‘Fenny’ by Lettice Cooper

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Matt Damon shoots a bow and arrow in The Odyssey about as well as he plays golf in The Legend of Bagger Vance

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Still thinking of Hockney…

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think of Hockney and I think of all those times that he’s made me stand still. How images I had continuously seen on screens seemed vivid and still and eternal when I saw them up close. Every time felt like a privilege.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I really enjoyed this. Very droll in the Barbara Pam vein, but also more pitiful, and the better for it.

A paperback copy of The Cost of Living by Kathleen Farrell

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I once started talking about this to a man who delivered a sofa to my flat after he noticed I liked the Bond films, and he immediately turned round and walked out without saying a word…

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Somehow this book has a more devastating ending than Villette… there’s a inescapable sense of poor decisions made as the result of the loneliness of old age that sits throughout the book, but the ending is just unspeakably sad.

A hardback copy of The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Enjoyed a Robin Williams 35mm double-bill at the Prince Charles where he played a not very good teacher in Dead Poets Society and a not very good therapist in Good Will Hunting

A watercolour painting I did years ago of Robin Williams

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Everyone I trust is saying wait ‘till it’s on Disney+, but on the other hand: large rooms with air conditioning… (A Mandolorian piece I was commissioned to do a few years ago)

A watercolour and pencil drawing of The Mandolorian and Grogu

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This list is so banal that if it kept on going it would have The Gunfighters at the bottom. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

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Doctor Who's 30 best classic stories ranked - from William Hartnell to Sylvester McCoy

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A memoir that is strangely most alive when Storey writes about the shadows cast by his brother’s early death and his own mental health. At the start, the book crackles and whips; the text seems alive with the immediacy of childhood. But it all fizzles out once the teenage years come along.

A hardback copy of A Stinging Delight by David Storey (subtitled: a memoir)

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The Christophers (2025). Michaela Coel’s sole acting choice is to stammer a bit. The rest of the performance is a blank slate. Ian McKellen acts in the opposite direction, hamming it up all over the place. The whole thing is a bit flat.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This made for a great double bill; not just for their takes on a fading industry, but what they say about the impotence of leading men, highly romantic camera movements and how a good needle drop can make a scene. They are very much in dialogue with each other.

4K copies of Body Double and Boogie Nights

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Drama: Robert Pattinson does some truly terrible empty coffee cup acting in the first few minutes and then it’s downhill from there. There isn’t a single authentic human emotion in the entire film.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And then seeing Green Card for the first time in the cinema. My favourite 90s romantic comedy, but Peter Weir can’t hide his strangeness by making every small everyday sound intense and overwhelming.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Watching Fat City: with its yellow Cooper Black titles over a sentimental theme tune, the film could almost be a prequel for Cheers’ Nicholas Colasanto’s Coach…

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Great book from the best about art and integrity. And bonus points for a perfect summary of TNG on p. 173.

A copy of The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A painting I once did of Audrey Hepburn in red

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Been fortunate to read lots of very good things recently, but this stood out. Taylor was exceptional at balancing wit and heartache, and she was so perceptive about both.

A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I’ve been on a bit of a Sidney Lumet kick recently and have loved how deeply he explores how over time circumstance causes compromise.

Blu-rays of Prince of the City, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and The Verdict; all directed by Sidney Lumet

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I knew I would love this, as I love all her books, but this crept up on me and bowled me over. The first couple of chapters feel like a speed run through classic Brookner, but then it becomes a rich reflection on grief and how our lives can be suddenly upturned overnight.

A hardback copy of The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

She comes back to tell me she’s gone As if I didn’t know that As if I didn’t know my own bed As if I’d never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Robert Duvall was an actor I’d choose to watch over any other. And I love that he knew his worth, refusing to participate in (and ruining) The Godfather Part III and filming Days of Thunder instead (an all-timer for me).

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Lucien Freud: Drawing into Painting does a decent job of trying to capture the process an artist whose models could sit for at least 120hrs for a piece. There’s a sense of time passing in the gallery; an artist obsessed with the new.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I loved the heart and intelligence of this movie. A very special film.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Read this after the umpteenth rewatch of Brief Encounter: even her daughter can’t capture why a very comfortable, conservative life led to such luminous performances.

A hardback copy of a biography of Celia Johnson by Kate Fleming

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A very old painting I did for a friend of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I’m not sure I could recommend this film, but it contains some amazing things; the soundtrack, the ending, its depiction of Hollywood in the 70s , its moments of surprise. But overall, it is a little bit sceevy.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I feel like I’ve had The Perfect Kiss on loop in my head for the last week or so, so I decided to sit down and watch this…

A Blu Ray of 24 Hour Party People by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Beautiful book about the small, slight things that somehow manage to change and not change relationships. Every page is like a sliver; Lehmann writing more in phrases than sentences. Gorgeous.

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I adored reading The Landbreakers a few years ago, so decided to hunt down Ehle’s follow-up. Here a man throws away his ordered life to do the right thing for all the wrong reasons.

A copy of The Journey of August King by John Ehle

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Lush Melodrama and angst over drapery… what more do you want from a film?

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Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’ve got that bug that’s going round but I still devoured these. There’s a story called ‘The Drowned Man’ within these that I just found absolutely devastating.

The Springs of Affection and The Visitor by Maeve Brennan

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