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
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)
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.
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
georgiasouthern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
georgiasouthern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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.
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.
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
I saw, and was wowed by, Killers of the Flower Moon last night. Both vintage Scorsese and something new. Lily Gladstone is amazing, De Niro is on GoodFellas-esque form, and the production and costume design is superb. Maybe a smidge too much Leo…
October 21, 2023 at 6:47 AM
I saw, and was wowed by, Killers of the Flower Moon last night. Both vintage Scorsese and something new. Lily Gladstone is amazing, De Niro is on GoodFellas-esque form, and the production and costume design is superb. Maybe a smidge too much Leo…
This was an entertaining distraction from work and… everything. Set in the 40s in a Hollywood studio and in Calabria (fascism/confino). Bringing studio studies and Italian studies together!
October 17, 2023 at 6:14 PM
This was an entertaining distraction from work and… everything. Set in the 40s in a Hollywood studio and in Calabria (fascism/confino). Bringing studio studies and Italian studies together!