Podcast

With the Watershed building and cinemas still closed, Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) talks with Watershed friends to share their recent small screen highlights from film and TV series, old and new.

In January's short podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, shares films to look forward that would have screened in 2020 and a hint of plans and optimism in the air for 2021.

While the halcyon days of films being released into the cinema seem a distant memory and Watershed Cinemas were more closed than open, this month's podcast still finds a rich array of fantastic films to remember from 2020.

In November's podcast Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) ponder and refute October's news, reported by some newspapers, of the death of cinema; plus share their cinema highlights for the month ahead at Watershed.

This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Cinema Producer Tara Judah back discuss their highlights for the month ahead and a packed programme of new films and cinematic opportunities; featuring horror, masculinity in crisis, Greta Thunberg, the US African-American experience and the BFI London Film Festival at Watershed.

In this month's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, shares the background to his thinking about the films he is putting on for Watershed's reopening in September, and shares upcoming highlights.

This month we take a pause in our monthly podcast as we prepare for re-opening.

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, looks forward to welcoming audiences back to Watershed Cinemas in September and highlights two films to look out for online this month.

In June's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers whether, when people talk of the acute challenges now facing the arts sector, whether film is included in that and ponders when does film become art?

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, discusses the existential crisis that he feels is now facing cinema and shares his pick of the upcoming films streaming online.

In these extraordinary times which have seen Watershed close its building and cancel all film screenings, our programmers Mark and Thea share pointers to films easily available online and which are, more often than not, free to view.

Coming up in March 2020 there's is plenty to get your eyes and ears into in cinema at Watershed.

Cinema highlights coming up at Watershed Cinemas in February 2020, including Parasite, Japanese films season and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

This first podcast of the new decade gets off to a hop skip and jump as we look forward to the start of the year in cinema at Watershed.

This month's podcast discusses the year in cinema at Watershed featuring some of the highlights, trends and the top five films of the year.

This month we look forward to Afrika Eye Film Festival, the UK Jewish Film Festival on Tour, London Korean Film Festival and the UK Green Film Festival, alongside We Are Here a season of films and events celebrating and portraying positivity in Queer and LGBTQ+ communities.

And to finish off Mark implores you to immerse yourself in Scorsese's latest masterpiece of power and control The Irishman.

Our October Podcast discusses Shextreme and other highlights this month

September Cinema at Watershed sees the arrival of the 25th Encounters Film Festival celebrating all things short film related, the release of uniquely British coming of age drama The Last Tree and two fantastic new releases to look forward to, Phoenix and Roja.

Rife Magazine, representation on screen, Almodovar's latest, a cinematic Cornish treat and French summer holidays all feature in a look ahead to August in film at Watershed.

Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove is joined by Asmaa Jama from Rife magazine.