Ali Catterall
@alicatterall.bsky.social
Hello!
Writer & filmmaker - roughly in that order
ADHD
Cat lover
My co-directed debut 'Scala!!! Or the incredibly strange rise & fall of the world’s wildest cinema & how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos & misfits' is now on BFI Player/Blu-ray
Writer & filmmaker - roughly in that order
ADHD
Cat lover
My co-directed debut 'Scala!!! Or the incredibly strange rise & fall of the world’s wildest cinema & how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos & misfits' is now on BFI Player/Blu-ray
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Ali Catterall
@alicatterall.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Laurie Anderson's O Superman. By Chas & Dave.
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One I made earlier. O Superman, by Chas and Dave.
In other news, the BBC is still looking for its spine. It's not entirely sure, but it thinks it might have left it under the settee with a old tape of Songs of Praise.
February 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
In other news, the BBC is still looking for its spine. It's not entirely sure, but it thinks it might have left it under the settee with a old tape of Songs of Praise.
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Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
February 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
February 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Discovered a very cute baby snail on the wall outside my front door just now. Gave it an all-you-can-eat deal.
Small Prophets is ace - and Kimi the Norwegian Forest Cat agrees.
February 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Small Prophets is ace - and Kimi the Norwegian Forest Cat agrees.
New jokes for the new cold war:
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
February 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM
New jokes for the new cold war:
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
"I say, I say, I say: where do you go to wash and spin incriminating evidence?"
"Why, comrade, you go to the Kompromat."
Wah wah wahhhhhh.
Found myself sitting next to Paul Whitehouse and his missis, Mine, at a live panel recording last week, and was fascinated to see him turn to Mine, on mention of Mike Leigh's Nuts in May, and whisper, audibly, "Huge influence on the Fast Show, that."
February 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Found myself sitting next to Paul Whitehouse and his missis, Mine, at a live panel recording last week, and was fascinated to see him turn to Mine, on mention of Mike Leigh's Nuts in May, and whisper, audibly, "Huge influence on the Fast Show, that."
Caught Paradigm Shift at the 180 Studios on its last day - a vast collection of avant-garde installations, including this 1997 work from Pipilotti Rist on female revenge / emancipation (homaged by Beyonce in her Hold Up video). It's just 4 mins long, but I could watch it all day
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Ever is overall Pipiloti
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February 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Caught Paradigm Shift at the 180 Studios on its last day - a vast collection of avant-garde installations, including this 1997 work from Pipilotti Rist on female revenge / emancipation (homaged by Beyonce in her Hold Up video). It's just 4 mins long, but I could watch it all day
youtu.be/-gd06ukX-rU
youtu.be/-gd06ukX-rU
Slightly inappropriate phrases to inadvertently blurt out at your Berlin premiere #1
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Slightly inappropriate phrases to inadvertently blurt out at your Berlin premiere #1
This beautiful Heroes tee-shirt, showing outtakes from the album cover session, is made and sold by the V&A. I need you to know that my dedication is such that I braved temperatures of -3 to pose in it beside Bowie and Iggy's Berlin flat, and outside Hansa Studios, where Heroes was made.
January 31, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This beautiful Heroes tee-shirt, showing outtakes from the album cover session, is made and sold by the V&A. I need you to know that my dedication is such that I braved temperatures of -3 to pose in it beside Bowie and Iggy's Berlin flat, and outside Hansa Studios, where Heroes was made.
Wowee! This just came up completely unprompted on my friend's Spotify :)
January 31, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Wowee! This just came up completely unprompted on my friend's Spotify :)
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At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
January 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
January 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
At our German premiere in Berlin, introducing SCALA!!!... in German.
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How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
How our Berlin premiere of SCALA!!! is going.
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The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The finding of the snark.
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
("Cover your eyes, Madame Cholet!")
Amazing reviews across the board for Barry Adamson's SCALA!!! soundtrack album - all four stars, or otherwise glowing. This one from Blitzed magazine is particularly smashing.
January 24, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Amazing reviews across the board for Barry Adamson's SCALA!!! soundtrack album - all four stars, or otherwise glowing. This one from Blitzed magazine is particularly smashing.
This was quite weird in Connections today.
January 23, 2026 at 4:48 PM
This was quite weird in Connections today.
Starmer increasingly sounds like Joyce Grenfell: "Donald... don't do that."
January 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Starmer increasingly sounds like Joyce Grenfell: "Donald... don't do that."
As a fellow ADHD, I've often sighed exasperatedly at James on Traitors - but it's clearly been more fun for my friends, who tell me, "That's exactly what you'd be like."
But the biggest revelation for me was that he used to play poker.
Inevitably begging the question: what was his poker face like?
But the biggest revelation for me was that he used to play poker.
Inevitably begging the question: what was his poker face like?
January 23, 2026 at 10:33 AM
As a fellow ADHD, I've often sighed exasperatedly at James on Traitors - but it's clearly been more fun for my friends, who tell me, "That's exactly what you'd be like."
But the biggest revelation for me was that he used to play poker.
Inevitably begging the question: what was his poker face like?
But the biggest revelation for me was that he used to play poker.
Inevitably begging the question: what was his poker face like?
Loving Marina Hyde's answer on The Rest is Entertainment when the #Traitors Faithful constantly question why they haven't been taken out yet.
"Because you're stupid and you're no threat to them."
"Because you're stupid and you're no threat to them."
January 22, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Loving Marina Hyde's answer on The Rest is Entertainment when the #Traitors Faithful constantly question why they haven't been taken out yet.
"Because you're stupid and you're no threat to them."
"Because you're stupid and you're no threat to them."
Is it wrong to look forward to #traitors just to see how Roxy can repeatedly top her own idiocy.
"Today, Roxy mistakes the castle for a slice of gingerbread."
"Today, Roxy mistakes the castle for a slice of gingerbread."
January 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Is it wrong to look forward to #traitors just to see how Roxy can repeatedly top her own idiocy.
"Today, Roxy mistakes the castle for a slice of gingerbread."
"Today, Roxy mistakes the castle for a slice of gingerbread."
And now, the first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominations! Here's my essay about it.
My essay about my favourite film of 2025 - the blazingly smart, multi-layered masterpiece that is Sinners. It deserves to win everything going this year.
January 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
And now, the first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominations! Here's my essay about it.
Reposted by Ali Catterall
My essay about my favourite film of 2025 - the blazingly smart, multi-layered masterpiece that is Sinners. It deserves to win everything going this year.
January 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
My essay about my favourite film of 2025 - the blazingly smart, multi-layered masterpiece that is Sinners. It deserves to win everything going this year.