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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · 14d

Ratio of TikTok-making to dancing?

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hard day at the Film Festival coalface

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Aug 21

‘One Generic Soap Hunk please!’

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Aug 16

Am wondering if ‘Ellie Gouldstein’ is a deliberate attempt to manifest an Ellie Goulding late entry (perhaps in place of a certain Bosh Merchant)?

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Aug 16

I do think so much will depend on pairings (duh) re getting to the final. Are you paired with Vito or Neil?

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Aug 9

The master.

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Jul 23

Amazing dress

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Jun 27

Lovely review of my book in Screen by Francesco Pitassio ☺️

academic.oup.com/screen/artic...

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Jun 10

Lecce. Love a beach, love a shrine, love a Padre Pio statue ❤️

Padre Pio looking menacing in statue form

Shrine in Lecce to the BVM with ‘ave Maria’ inscription

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Jun 6

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

Photo of Enzo Staiola from Bicycle Thieves (1948)

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Apr 5

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...

Shibboleth Authentication Request

intellectdiscover-com.bris.idm.oclc.org

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Mar 13

NYC, baby! (Sadly Audra didn’t perform, but Gypsy still a great show)

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

rumble.com

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Mar 4

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.

Cover of Your Little Matter book by Maria Grazia Calandrone

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Mar 3

No Other Land on C4 tomorrow night. Save the date

Ken Loach & Sixteen Films @kenloach16films.bsky.social · Mar 3

*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.

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Feb 24

Highly recommend No Other Land. Beautiful and enraging. Streaming on YouTube youtu.be/Y_aKPLEHkv4?...

No Other Land

YouTube video by YouTube Movies

youtu.be

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Feb 12

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!

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Jan 31

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...

Book launch poster. Catherine O’Rawe author of The Non-professional Actor and Miguel Gaggiotti, author of Nonprofessional Film Performance. Friday 7 Feb, 6pm UK. Moderated by Catherine Russell

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Dec 31

I returned to a long strand,
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular
powers of the Atlantic thundering.
Seamus Heaney

CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Dec 19

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.

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Dec 7

Look dancing’s not about steps, right?!

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

Luca Barra @lucabarra.bsky.social · Dec 2

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.

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CatherineOR @cathorave.bsky.social · Dec 1

In fact Alexandra got grief for mentioning her recently dead mum

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