Articles

× Close

Help us make our website work better for you

We use Google Analytics to gather information on how our website is used. This information helps us to make changes to our website that improve the usefulness and overall experience for our visitors. If you would like to help us to make continuous improvements to our website, please allow us to set "first-party" cookies (only readable by us) so that we can distinguish visitors and gain greater insights.

Allow cookies for analytics Deny cookies for analytics

You can update your cookie preferences at any time on our cookies page

My Beautiful Laundrette

“ Film Culture in the era of Netflix ”

Posted on Wed 26 Sept 2018 by Mark Cosgrove

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed’s Cinema Curator, reflects on the changing nature of film exhibition and the value of cinema.

Utoya

“ Conversations About Cinema: A new series of in-cinema discussions ”

Posted on Wed 12 Sept 2018

Starting in October with Utøya, UWE and Watershed are partnering on a series of screenings and discussions that brings together a multi-disciplinary team of philosophers, political theorists, and cinema curators and producers to unpick some of the most exciting and challenging ideas in contemporary cinema, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE, Francesco Tava writes.

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

“ Matangi, Maya or M.I.A. - just who is this problematic pop star? ”

Posted on Wed 12 Sept 2018 by Tara Judah

Everyone wants to know who's behind star persona M.I.A., and if there's more than meets the eye to the outspoken Sri Lankan born, London raised refugee bringing politics to pop music. Candid, confident and clever, Matangi "Maya" Arulpragasam speaks, sings and raps from the heart, Cinema Producer Tara Judah writes.

The Rider

“ Of shimmering twilight on the horizon: where fiction and reality meet in The Rider ”

Posted on Fri 7 Sept 2018 by Tara Judah

Horse trainer Brady Jandreau gives the performance of a lifetime, against the blinding twilight of a South Dakotan horizon, where fiction and reality meet in The Rider, Cinema Producer Tara Judah writes.

American Animals

“ "That's the Thing About Memory": Unreliable Narrators in Bart Layton's American Animals ”

Posted on Wed 5 Sept 2018 by Tara Judah

Talking to writer-director Bart Layton about his hybrid beast of a movie, American Animals, offered fascinating insight into his thrilling heist hybrid, told by a pack of unreliable narrators, Cinema Producer Tara Judah writes.

Cold War

“ What's fair in love and Cold War? ”

Posted on Tue 28 Aug 2018 by Tara Judah

Where love and war are concerned, it's all just shades of grey. Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War romance hits the big screen with striking polemic and a full palette of black and white, Cinema Producer Tara Judah writes.

Riddles of the Sphinx

“ The Riddles of Film History in 360 degrees ”

Posted on Mon 20 Aug 2018 by Tara Judah

Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx showed us a 360 degree alternative view to the so-called 'male gaze' of mainstream cinema. Revealing a riddle of hetero-patriarchal film history, our Summer of rediscovery with restorations from amazing women filmmakers paves the way for an Autumnal change, Cinema Producer Tara Judah writes.

Spike Lee

“ Spike Lee and the Klansman ”

Posted on Sun 5 Aug 2018 by Edson Burton

Spike Lee is a political artist, and one with a particular comic sensibility. Artists may not be able to resolve social issues, but Lee's satire is responsible, Come the Revolution's Edson Burton writes.

I Am Somebody

“ Personhood (un)Differed : Madeline Anderson and the Edit Underground ”

Posted on Thu 26 July 2018 by Liz Chege

Newly restored, Madeline Anderson’s essential historical records of activism and vital body of cinematic work convey a radical commitment to hope, Come the Revolution curator Liz Chege writes.

Saute ma Ville

“ Women on the Periphery: taking centre stage ”

Posted on Wed 25 July 2018 by Tara Judah

On Cinema Rediscovered's focus on Women on the Periphery, Agnés Varda, Laura Mulvey, Spike Lee and more, Watershed Cinema Producer Tara Judah reflects on a history of critical conversations and curatorial choices that have left so many great filmmakers just outside of the spotlight.

Orson Welles

“ The Eyes of Orson Welles: opening the archive ”

Posted on Wed 25 July 2018 by Dr Peter Walsh

With unfettered access to Orson Welles' private drawings and paintings, held dear in the private archive of his youngest daughter, filmmaker Mark Cousins invites us into his Wellesian world, through the eyes of the great man himself, Dr Peter Walsh writes.