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Catherine
@catherinebray.bsky.social
Big Hoops lobbyist. Also film producer. Write about film for the Guardian and Variety. Parent to a polite baby and ill-mannered cat.
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'a fitting tribute'
Catherine Bray @variety.com

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (12A) screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tues, April 1st, at 7.30pm. Advance booking available online, in-person and 051 855 038.

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March 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The 12 Episodes of Christmas #7

There's a new #LordOfTheRings film out! A good time to revisit our 2022 chat about 2001's Fellowship of the Ring movie with LOTR expert @catherinebray.bsky.social, with @ianwinterton.bsky.social, Stella & Dan.

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Revisitations #5: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) with Catherine Bray
It’s time to talk Tolkien, and specifically the more horrific elements of the Middle Earth canon.  Peter Jackson’s 2001 film instalment The Fellowship of the Ring (featuring the ev…
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December 31, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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Day two of our strike today

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December 5, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
I couldn’t make it to this because baby, but I spent some time thinking about Seb and how it would have been nice to talk to him about becoming a parent. RIP pal.
New @90minfilmfest.bsky.social pod! 🕹️ We’re joined by Seb Patrick who picked Seth Gordon’s The King Of Kong (79 mins) back in 2020 and tragically passed away before we could release the ep. Today would’ve been Seb’s 42nd birthday and this is our contribution to #SebPatricksDay ❤️ pod.fo/e/2896c3
December 2, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Can’t sleep, Claire Trevor will eat me
December 2, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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New @90minfilmfest.bsky.social pod! 🕹️ We’re joined by Seb Patrick who picked Seth Gordon’s The King Of Kong (79 mins) back in 2020 and tragically passed away before we could release the ep. Today would’ve been Seb’s 42nd birthday and this is our contribution to #SebPatricksDay ❤️ pod.fo/e/2896c3
November 30, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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Playing a Borrower is one of the hardest thing an actor can do. You have to give them massive props
October 28, 2023 at 11:52 AM
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I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
slate.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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TOMORROW at Hackney Picturehouse ⬇️
Just TWO WEEKS until we screen The King Of Kong at Hackney Picturehouse to celebrate our good pal Seb Patrick and raise money for Trussell Trust with @90minfilmfest.bsky.social 🕹️ www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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They work for one of the richest men on the planet.
More Than Half of UK Amazon Workers Have to Borrow Money to Make Ends Meet | Novara Media
On Black Friday, trade unionists push the US corporate giant to stop squeezing workers for profit.
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November 29, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Should have posted this for 'World TV Day' but... over 100,000 TV programmes have been added to the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank. And the TV curators & I have put together 3 new curated collections showcasing some highlights from the new batch from ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
November 23, 2024 at 4:38 PM
The multimedia invites have dropped! This is now a real question
Is this Rohirrim thing gonna be worth getting a sitter for, what we saying
November 22, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Seems legit, no further questions
November 21, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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date: can you take off your work gloves

Jim Henson: they have names
May 1, 2023 at 12:01 PM
Is this Rohirrim thing gonna be worth getting a sitter for, what we saying
November 19, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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my greatest skill as a freelance writer is missing the anniversaries of films i would've wanted to pitch pieces on
November 19, 2024 at 3:21 PM
My Saturday Guardian magazine feature about Duncan Cowles’ not-grim mental health film Silent Men here. Film is out this week.
November 18, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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Just TWO WEEKS until we screen The King Of Kong at Hackney Picturehouse to celebrate our good pal Seb Patrick and raise money for Trussell Trust with @90minfilmfest.bsky.social 🕹️ www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
November 16, 2024 at 1:23 PM
When I file articles I usually have a bit of fun and send in a suggested headline, which is rarely used. Normally I am fine with this, but I do think it’s a shame they didn’t use my original here, which was The Silence of The Lads
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‘I couldn’t tell my parents I loved them’: documentary-maker Duncan Cowles on giving silent men a voice | Documentary films | The Guardian
The Scottish film-maker on bringing humour to his look at male emotional repression, being compared to Louis Theroux, and his problems with reality TV
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November 16, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Hello everybody! We’re working on the 2025 festival (6-8 June) and interested to hear suggestions for our eclectic, counter-cultural, feministy, musicy, Londony programme. Please RT (do we call it that here?) so publicists etc can find us again 🤓. Thank you!
November 14, 2024 at 10:30 AM