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
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 😎
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
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
October 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Last night in Cambridge was the second time seeing The Divine Comedy on their current tour and it was even better than the Barbican gig! Setlist was complete perfection ❤️
Thank you @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
Thank you @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Last night in Cambridge was the second time seeing The Divine Comedy on their current tour and it was even better than the Barbican gig! Setlist was complete perfection ❤️
Thank you @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
Thank you @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social
A wonderful cloudy Sunday evening with @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social at the Barbican. New songs sounded gorgeous alongside old favourites & rarely played album tracks ❤️
October 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A wonderful cloudy Sunday evening with @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social at the Barbican. New songs sounded gorgeous alongside old favourites & rarely played album tracks ❤️
At the Odeon Leicester Sq for One Battle After Another. New PTA, yay!
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
At the Odeon Leicester Sq for One Battle After Another. New PTA, yay!
Had an excellent time at the #DivineComedy interview & signing at Rough Trade East last night, with my other favourite Neil 😀❤️ Loving the fab 60s sound of the new album.
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social thank you Neil!
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social thank you Neil!
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Had an excellent time at the #DivineComedy interview & signing at Rough Trade East last night, with my other favourite Neil 😀❤️ Loving the fab 60s sound of the new album.
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social thank you Neil!
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social thank you Neil!
So glad that I got the chance to see #InsideNo9 Stage/Fright @mktheatre.bsky.social after missing it in London. It’s an ingenious & very funny show, loved how they adapted two of the best episodes for it. A perfect end to the series, bravo Reece & Steve!
September 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So glad that I got the chance to see #InsideNo9 Stage/Fright @mktheatre.bsky.social after missing it in London. It’s an ingenious & very funny show, loved how they adapted two of the best episodes for it. A perfect end to the series, bravo Reece & Steve!
PSB at NFT last night. Surreal Brit oddity It Couldn’t Happen Here, PSB soundtracked Battleship Potemkin + Neil Tennant Q&A. All this AND I was sitting across the aisle next to Neil during Potemkin! A dream night at #BFI Southbank 🤩
#PetShopBoys #filmsky #musicsky
#PetShopBoys #filmsky #musicsky
September 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
PSB at NFT last night. Surreal Brit oddity It Couldn’t Happen Here, PSB soundtracked Battleship Potemkin + Neil Tennant Q&A. All this AND I was sitting across the aisle next to Neil during Potemkin! A dream night at #BFI Southbank 🤩
#PetShopBoys #filmsky #musicsky
#PetShopBoys #filmsky #musicsky
September 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Brigitte Calls Me Baby, baby! Love this band, they’ve got it all. First time visit to #OmearaLondon, what a great venue.
August 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Brigitte Calls Me Baby, baby! Love this band, they’ve got it all. First time visit to #OmearaLondon, what a great venue.
Let’s rock!
Twin Peaks series 1 marathon @princecharlescinema.com
Twin Peaks series 1 marathon @princecharlescinema.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Let’s rock!
Twin Peaks series 1 marathon @princecharlescinema.com
Twin Peaks series 1 marathon @princecharlescinema.com
Saw the excellent production of A Moon for the Misbegotten at #AlmeidaTheatre on Saturday. Tremendous performances from Michael Shannon, Ruth Wilson & David Threlfall kept me hooked throughout. #theatresky
August 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Saw the excellent production of A Moon for the Misbegotten at #AlmeidaTheatre on Saturday. Tremendous performances from Michael Shannon, Ruth Wilson & David Threlfall kept me hooked throughout. #theatresky
“Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?”
RIP Michael Madsen. Iconic in Reservoir Dogs, once seen never forgotten.
RIP Michael Madsen. Iconic in Reservoir Dogs, once seen never forgotten.
July 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?”
RIP Michael Madsen. Iconic in Reservoir Dogs, once seen never forgotten.
RIP Michael Madsen. Iconic in Reservoir Dogs, once seen never forgotten.
If I lived in London I’d be there most nights, the programming is awesome
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If I lived in London I’d be there most nights, the programming is awesome
Yesterday I made my first visit to London’s new grindhouse style rep cinema @thenickelcinema.bsky.social for a first time watch of White Heat on 16mm. Cool little cinema run by lovely people. If you’re a movie fan with a taste for the cult & the crazy, this is the place for you, it rocks!
July 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Yesterday I made my first visit to London’s new grindhouse style rep cinema @thenickelcinema.bsky.social for a first time watch of White Heat on 16mm. Cool little cinema run by lovely people. If you’re a movie fan with a taste for the cult & the crazy, this is the place for you, it rocks!
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It’s nitrate day at #BFI #FilmonFilm festival! Four vintage 35mm prints are being projected in NFT1:
Double bill of Un Chien Andalou (the oldest print projected to a UK audience) and Partie de Campagne.
Blanche Fury in glorious Technicolor.
Peter Lorre in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Double bill of Un Chien Andalou (the oldest print projected to a UK audience) and Partie de Campagne.
Blanche Fury in glorious Technicolor.
Peter Lorre in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much.
June 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It’s nitrate day at #BFI #FilmonFilm festival! Four vintage 35mm prints are being projected in NFT1:
Double bill of Un Chien Andalou (the oldest print projected to a UK audience) and Partie de Campagne.
Blanche Fury in glorious Technicolor.
Peter Lorre in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Double bill of Un Chien Andalou (the oldest print projected to a UK audience) and Partie de Campagne.
Blanche Fury in glorious Technicolor.
Peter Lorre in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much.
If you fancy having a closer look at film and how to identify it, come along to our film handling sessions happening tomorrow at BFI Southbank as part of the #FilmonFilm festival. Sessions take place in the atrium near NFT2 between 13:00-17:00 and are free to attend.
June 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you fancy having a closer look at film and how to identify it, come along to our film handling sessions happening tomorrow at BFI Southbank as part of the #FilmonFilm festival. Sessions take place in the atrium near NFT2 between 13:00-17:00 and are free to attend.
It’s #FilmonFilm Friday! Three of today’s delights:
Swoon at a gorgeous BW CinemaScope print of Hud!
Witness an ultra rare 35mm screening of Last Summer!
Join the Purple Parade to see Prince at his most beautiful in Under the Cherry Moon!
Swoon at a gorgeous BW CinemaScope print of Hud!
Witness an ultra rare 35mm screening of Last Summer!
Join the Purple Parade to see Prince at his most beautiful in Under the Cherry Moon!
June 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It’s #FilmonFilm Friday! Three of today’s delights:
Swoon at a gorgeous BW CinemaScope print of Hud!
Witness an ultra rare 35mm screening of Last Summer!
Join the Purple Parade to see Prince at his most beautiful in Under the Cherry Moon!
Swoon at a gorgeous BW CinemaScope print of Hud!
Witness an ultra rare 35mm screening of Last Summer!
Join the Purple Parade to see Prince at his most beautiful in Under the Cherry Moon!
