Tim Rding

The poster for a London double bill of You Only Live Twice and A Fistful of Dollars

4K discs of You Only Live Twice and A Fistful of Dollars

I went for an 8-mile walk and I am now replicating this all-time great double-bill using the new 4K discs. Today feels like a bank holiday!

A beautiful, moving piece of writing. Thank you for it. Your mum sounds extraordinary, your love for her even more so.

Sylvia Plath’s grave

And in one of those weird moments of synchronicity, I visited this last week

Reprint hardcover copies of ‘Ariel’ by Sylvia Plath and ‘North’ by Seamus Heaney

I wasn’t entirely convinced by Faber’s poetry subscription at the start, but it’s really stepped up a notch in the last two months.

I’m so sorry to hear this. Through the podcast, the books I read as a consequence, and your own writing, my life is just a little bit better. I’m sorry that you have to deal with this nonsense. It’s not fair

Sorry to hear this - I hope everything gets sorted soon.

One of those situations where I wish I could like a post more than once… I can’t wait to hear this episode!

There are many films that could be told by their visuals alone. This is the first film ever made that could just be told by its sound

F1®️ is a great film if you really like having absolutely everything explained to you throughout the film

I once wrote “there is no question in life to which the answer isn’t: watch ‘Jaws’”

I don’t know how true that is, but a now disgraced Oscar-winning director certainly agreed with me at the time.

Such a good choice for #1!

Richard Dawkins’ prophetic vision of ‘new colour’ Letters: The scientist reflects on a speculative idea about human perception in a 2004 book he co-wrote and, two decades on, an experiment that has produced a colour no one has seen before

Richard Dawkins writes to the Guardian to make sure everyone knows he was right…

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Every epigraph nowadays:

Quote 1: something old and pretentious.

Quote 2: a lyric from a pop song.

Your work makes my own life a richer, more interesting, more manageable thing navigate. Thankyou for all of this and I am sorry you are in pain

Finally finished this set. Not much to say beyond Capra loves America and a lot of these films end with things catching of fire…

Thanks so much for sharing this. I was able to preemptively avoid the additional charge for this AI garbage. I really appreciate you sharing this information

That’s a pretty incredible line-up…!

Here’s mine:

The issues where he’s inked by Bill Sienkiewicz are extraordinary. There’s such an energy to them, even in the static scenes.

I’m very sorry for you and everyone else you love who are feeling her loss.

He was everything. Such sad, sad news.

David Lynch (1946 - 2025)

Thanks so much. That means an awful lot

A black and white pen and ink drawing of Roger Delgado, Bok and Doctor Jon

Doctor Who and The Dæmons.

In pen and ink by me.

(I started drawing this piece after I rewatched the film on 9th November. That’s how long it takes me to finish these ruddy things. How do people do this professionally?)

A black and white pen and ink drawing of Kurt Russell in The Thing

New piece of art based on John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’

I really enjoyed how you have to constantly reassess time when watching these films. Months can pass between consecutive scenes and it’s never signposted.

DVDs of Say Anything and Singles (both directed by Cameron Crowe

There’s something special about rewatching films where you’d forgotten how good they are:

The 4K standard edition of Se7en. It is simultaneously over- and under- designed

What’s in the box?

(A single 4K disc that is almost impossible to remove…)

A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jon Elledge.

Great book. I learnt a lot (I have already forgotten most of it…).