CatherineOR
@cathorave.bsky.social
Professor of Italian film. Lover of pop culture. Bristol via Belfast. She/her. Basic.
Hard day at the Film Festival coalface
September 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hard day at the Film Festival coalface
I read this lovely novel by Joseph O’Connor, about Bram Stoker’s relationship with Henry Irving: then then next day I noticed the plaque in Stokes Croft
July 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I read this lovely novel by Joseph O’Connor, about Bram Stoker’s relationship with Henry Irving: then then next day I noticed the plaque in Stokes Croft
June 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Lecce. Love a beach, love a shrine, love a Padre Pio statue ❤️
June 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Lecce. Love a beach, love a shrine, love a Padre Pio statue ❤️
R.I.P Enzo Staiola, maybe THE face of Italian neorealism after Bicycle Thieves. I’m quoted in this Washington Post obituary of him archive.ph/fydat
June 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
R.I.P Enzo Staiola, maybe THE face of Italian neorealism after Bicycle Thieves. I’m quoted in this Washington Post obituary of him archive.ph/fydat
The first review of my book has appeared: a long, thoughtful and generous one from @clliv.bsky.social.which is nice. intellectdiscover-com.bris.idm.oclc.org/content/jour...
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April 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The first review of my book has appeared: a long, thoughtful and generous one from @clliv.bsky.social.which is nice. intellectdiscover-com.bris.idm.oclc.org/content/jour...
Karen Joy Fowler’s novel about John Wilkes Booth and his family is marvellous. I read it after managing to finish a mammoth bio of Lincoln so can now call myself a 19th-century Americanist
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Karen Joy Fowler’s novel about John Wilkes Booth and his family is marvellous. I read it after managing to finish a mammoth bio of Lincoln so can now call myself a 19th-century Americanist
NYC, baby! (Sadly Audra didn’t perform, but Gypsy still a great show)
March 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
NYC, baby! (Sadly Audra didn’t perform, but Gypsy still a great show)
The documentary pulled by the BBC, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone can be viewed here. Powerful stuff rumble.com/v6nm6n9-bbc-...
BBC: Gaza - How to Survive a Warzone
A BBC documentary that the BBC took down shortly after they posted it under threats from the Zionist lobby. Also blocked from YouTube. Reuploaded from here: https://mega.nz/file/YpJngIQR#ElO_TUOUe2lnf
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March 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The documentary pulled by the BBC, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone can be viewed here. Powerful stuff rumble.com/v6nm6n9-bbc-...
Maria Grazia Calandrone’s Dove non mi hai portata, her account of being abandoned as a baby, and her reconstruction of post-war Italy and her mother’s life, is stupendous. Read here in the translation by Antonella Lettieri for Foundry Editions.
March 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Maria Grazia Calandrone’s Dove non mi hai portata, her account of being abandoned as a baby, and her reconstruction of post-war Italy and her mother’s life, is stupendous. Read here in the translation by Antonella Lettieri for Foundry Editions.
No Other Land on C4 tomorrow night. Save the date
*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.* Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.
March 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
No Other Land on C4 tomorrow night. Save the date
Highly recommend No Other Land. Beautiful and enraging. Streaming on YouTube youtu.be/Y_aKPLEHkv4?...
No Other Land
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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February 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Highly recommend No Other Land. Beautiful and enraging. Streaming on YouTube youtu.be/Y_aKPLEHkv4?...
I loved Sing Sing, which falls into the ‘doing drama in prison’ genre: Colman Domingo is outstanding alongside formerly incarcerated alumni of the theatre rehabilitation programme. Give him the Oscar!
February 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I loved Sing Sing, which falls into the ‘doing drama in prison’ genre: Colman Domingo is outstanding alongside formerly incarcerated alumni of the theatre rehabilitation programme. Give him the Oscar!
I’ll be doing an author talk/book launch with Miguel Gaggiotti next Friday 6pm UK time @miguelgaggiotti.bsky.social
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January 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I’ll be doing an author talk/book launch with Miguel Gaggiotti next Friday 6pm UK time @miguelgaggiotti.bsky.social
georgiasouthern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
georgiasouthern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I returned to a long strand,
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular
powers of the Atlantic thundering.
Seamus Heaney
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular
powers of the Atlantic thundering.
Seamus Heaney
December 31, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I returned to a long strand,
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular
powers of the Atlantic thundering.
Seamus Heaney
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular
powers of the Atlantic thundering.
Seamus Heaney
Found newspaper evidence of my granda’s arrival in New York, April 1928. His first singing engagement: an IRA celebration. Would love to know what he and Seumas got up to in NYC.
December 19, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Found newspaper evidence of my granda’s arrival in New York, April 1928. His first singing engagement: an IRA celebration. Would love to know what he and Seumas got up to in NYC.
Great to see this out. My chapter on Alessandro Borghi as reluctant star is in it plus lots of other stuff on contemporary Italian actors
It is finally out, and open access! “Contemporary Italian Screen Performers”, in its 30 chapters, provides a rich, varied, stratified mapping of actors, actresses and relevant intermediaries at work in our national film and television industry.
December 2, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Great to see this out. My chapter on Alessandro Borghi as reluctant star is in it plus lots of other stuff on contemporary Italian actors
Sergio Castellitto’s vape hit in Conclave is one of the film moments of the year, but Fiennes is majestic. Habemus papam!
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November 29, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Sergio Castellitto’s vape hit in Conclave is one of the film moments of the year, but Fiennes is majestic. Habemus papam!
I’m giving an online talk tomorrow 9am UK time on The Non-Professional Actor in Global Cinema. You can register for free at the link below or via QR code
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 AM
I’m giving an online talk tomorrow 9am UK time on The Non-Professional Actor in Global Cinema. You can register for free at the link below or via QR code
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Going back in. Finishing my Sopranos rewatch 3 years later.
November 12, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Going back in. Finishing my Sopranos rewatch 3 years later.
In a vain effort to make this week suck less, I saw Anora, which is fantastic. Such a pleasantly welcome screwball vibe from Sean Baker. And because it paid unexpected homage to one of my all-time faves, Now, Voyager, I rewatched that. 'Oh Jerry..'
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November 10, 2024 at 8:46 AM
In a vain effort to make this week suck less, I saw Anora, which is fantastic. Such a pleasantly welcome screwball vibe from Sean Baker. And because it paid unexpected homage to one of my all-time faves, Now, Voyager, I rewatched that. 'Oh Jerry..'
What a dark day. Feel so bad for US friends and colleagues, and all at risk.
“In the morning, when the sun rises sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night” (Joseph Cotten, Gaslight)
“In the morning, when the sun rises sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night” (Joseph Cotten, Gaslight)
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November 6, 2024 at 8:56 AM
What a dark day. Feel so bad for US friends and colleagues, and all at risk.
“In the morning, when the sun rises sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night” (Joseph Cotten, Gaslight)
“In the morning, when the sun rises sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night” (Joseph Cotten, Gaslight)
I’m going in. (Just when I thought I was out etc)
October 24, 2024 at 10:05 AM
I’m going in. (Just when I thought I was out etc)
I really enjoyed this study of Violet Gibson, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat who attempted to kill Mussolini in 1926. Not only insightful about her life, connections to Irish nationalism, and sad institutionalisation, but a good cultural history of fascism. 9/10, no notes
September 17, 2024 at 6:54 AM
I really enjoyed this study of Violet Gibson, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat who attempted to kill Mussolini in 1926. Not only insightful about her life, connections to Irish nationalism, and sad institutionalisation, but a good cultural history of fascism. 9/10, no notes