Tim
@lostinvhs.bsky.social
Sometime film blogger from Manchester. Other topics: music, books, football, cricket.
Got two days off now! I've stuck on City That Never Sleeps (1953), my next #Noirvember entry. Saw this still from it online the other day and couldn't resist! #filmsky 📽️🎬
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Got two days off now! I've stuck on City That Never Sleeps (1953), my next #Noirvember entry. Saw this still from it online the other day and couldn't resist! #filmsky 📽️🎬
My next book group book is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. I've started reading it over the last few days. I'm slowly finding my way into it. Its prose is quite sparse and there's a definite emphasis on character over plot but I like that kind of thing. #booksky 📚
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
My next book group book is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. I've started reading it over the last few days. I'm slowly finding my way into it. Its prose is quite sparse and there's a definite emphasis on character over plot but I like that kind of thing. #booksky 📚
At my book group last night we talked about The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene. It's always published with The Third Man - both stories were adapted into excellent films by Carol Reed. I feel The Fallen Idol is if not underrated, certainly under-seen, but it's one of my faves. #booksky #filmsky 📽️🎬
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My Criterion Collection sale haul has arrived...
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My Criterion Collection sale haul has arrived...
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005), The Killers (1946), Black Tuesday (1954), and My Name Is Julia Ross (1945). #Noirvember has definitely set in. #filmsky 📽️🎬 @letterboxd.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005), The Killers (1946), Black Tuesday (1954), and My Name Is Julia Ross (1945). #Noirvember has definitely set in. #filmsky 📽️🎬 @letterboxd.social
Just spent over £100 in the UK Criterion Collection Sale 😬 Pleased with my haul though: Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Girlfriends (1978), Certain Women (2017), My Brilliant Career (1979), Detour (1945), Crossing Delancey (1988), Grey Gardens (1975), and Magnificent Obsession (1954). #filmsky 📽️🎬
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Just spent over £100 in the UK Criterion Collection Sale 😬 Pleased with my haul though: Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Girlfriends (1978), Certain Women (2017), My Brilliant Career (1979), Detour (1945), Crossing Delancey (1988), Grey Gardens (1975), and Magnificent Obsession (1954). #filmsky 📽️🎬
Before I went home I went to the National Railway Museum. Spent a while in the museum's library and it prompted me to buy a book about the trains of my childhood which I will 100% be reading.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Before I went home I went to the National Railway Museum. Spent a while in the museum's library and it prompted me to buy a book about the trains of my childhood which I will 100% be reading.
A walk around York Minster and the city walls yesterday.
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A walk around York Minster and the city walls yesterday.
Had a nice day in York! Although when I went to the Yorkshire pudding wrap place I ordered a roast dinner by mistake.
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Had a nice day in York! Although when I went to the Yorkshire pudding wrap place I ordered a roast dinner by mistake.
Not seen Better Off Dead but heard it's xmas adjacent. Don't know if it's your vibe but I like Cash on Demand, a bank heist retelling of A Christmas Carol (it's a noir so good for Noirvember ha, AND a Hammer film - a good bridge between spooky season and Christmas). Plus it's 80mins and on YouTube!
November 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Not seen Better Off Dead but heard it's xmas adjacent. Don't know if it's your vibe but I like Cash on Demand, a bank heist retelling of A Christmas Carol (it's a noir so good for Noirvember ha, AND a Hammer film - a good bridge between spooky season and Christmas). Plus it's 80mins and on YouTube!
Bit late doing it this week, but: #Lastfourwatched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), The Raven (1963), Young Frankenstein (1974), and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). @letterboxd.social #filmsky 🎬📽️
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Bit late doing it this week, but: #Lastfourwatched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), The Raven (1963), Young Frankenstein (1974), and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). @letterboxd.social #filmsky 🎬📽️
Only managed five films for #Shocktober this year: Tales of Terror (1962), The Return of Doctor X (1939), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Raven (1963), and the best one, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966). Technically watched the last one in November but I'm counting it. #filmsky 🎬📽️
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Only managed five films for #Shocktober this year: Tales of Terror (1962), The Return of Doctor X (1939), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Raven (1963), and the best one, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966). Technically watched the last one in November but I'm counting it. #filmsky 🎬📽️
Another nice looking tree on my way home the other day.
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Another nice looking tree on my way home the other day.
I'm watching silly, non-scary horrors only this #Shocktober, and tonight I'm re-watching Young Frankenstein (1974) #filmsky 📽️🎬
October 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm watching silly, non-scary horrors only this #Shocktober, and tonight I'm re-watching Young Frankenstein (1974) #filmsky 📽️🎬
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, on at Manchester Apollo last night, are the figures you can just about make out thanks to the inadequacies of my phone camera. They were very good.
October 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, on at Manchester Apollo last night, are the figures you can just about make out thanks to the inadequacies of my phone camera. They were very good.
#LetterboxdFriday #Lastfourwatched Urchin (2025), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), Tales of Terror (1962), and My Father's Shadow (2025). #filmsky 🎬📽️ @letterboxd.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#LetterboxdFriday #Lastfourwatched Urchin (2025), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), Tales of Terror (1962), and My Father's Shadow (2025). #filmsky 🎬📽️ @letterboxd.social
After the cinema yesterday I looked in on an exhibition in the gallery called Roots in the Sky. This one is by Joy Labinjo and it's called Love him and let him love you.
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
After the cinema yesterday I looked in on an exhibition in the gallery called Roots in the Sky. This one is by Joy Labinjo and it's called Love him and let him love you.
Went to see Harris Dickinson's film Urchin today. Thought Frank Dillane was particularly great in it - Mike is at times despicable, but also vulnerable, and he gives such a nuanced performance that's entirely believable. #filmsky 📽️🎬
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Went to see Harris Dickinson's film Urchin today. Thought Frank Dillane was particularly great in it - Mike is at times despicable, but also vulnerable, and he gives such a nuanced performance that's entirely believable. #filmsky 📽️🎬
Reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier at the moment and urgh it's brilliant. She's just on her way to Manderley now. I'll re-watch the Hitchcock once I've finished. I remember going to see it at the Cornerhouse in Manchester some years ago but never since.
#filmsky 🎬📽️ #booksky 📚
#filmsky 🎬📽️ #booksky 📚
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Watched Tales of Terror (1962) last night, an anthology film of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. The second one, with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre on the wines, is definitely the best. #filmsky 📽️🎬 #Shocktober
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Watched Tales of Terror (1962) last night, an anthology film of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. The second one, with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre on the wines, is definitely the best. #filmsky 📽️🎬 #Shocktober
Went to see My Father's Shadow last night, my fourth of the five London Film Festival films I'm booked to see. Really liked it. It was very sad, though, and people were crying either side of me, so brace yourself if you go to see it. #filmsky 📽️🎬
October 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Went to see My Father's Shadow last night, my fourth of the five London Film Festival films I'm booked to see. Really liked it. It was very sad, though, and people were crying either side of me, so brace yourself if you go to see it. #filmsky 📽️🎬