Wed 20 - Sun 24 July 2022
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For those of you working in film exhibition and archives, join some of the most distinctive voices in film curation and archiving to explore the potential of reframing film heritage.
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Award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed delivers this year’s Philip French Memorial Lecture reflecting on her journalistic journey through cinema.
This event will have BSL (British Sign Language) interpretation.
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A brooding jazz saxophonist lives in a simmering state of jealousy with his listless and possibly unfaithful wife in this 4K restoration of David Lynch's classic thriller.
Join us after the screening for a special Lynch inspired DJ/VJ set courtesy of DJ Cheeba in the Café & Bar, open to all ticket holders.
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Café & Bar, Watershed
Join DJ Cheeba in the Café & Bar for a live DJ/VJ set inspired by the deliriously enigmatic work of David Lynch.
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Archive activists Invisible Women speak to guest contributors including So Mayer about reimagining film history through a female-centric lens.
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Farida Benlyazid's poignant tribute to womanhood and spirituality is brought to life once again through the restoration efforts of the Transnational Moroccan Cinema Project from the University of Exeter.
Join us before the film for an introduction by Dr Stefanie Van De Peer, the force behind Global Women’s Film Heritage, a programme focused on building a collective of researchers and practitioners that make women and their films more visible in global film archives.
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James Cagney and Joan Blondell sizzle as a con-artist duo robbing hotel guests in this brilliant crime comedy.
With an introduction by Christina Newland.
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Waterside 1, Watershed
Join the team behind Global Women’s Film Heritage, a collective of researchers, archive practitioners and film exhibitors dedicated to making women and their films more visible for a networking lunch reflecting on the absences and presences of women's work in film archives.
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Two women forge a connection that breaches the confines of time, history, and faith. An essential work of Tanzanian cinema being returned to audiences openly and inclusively in honour of its 20th Anniversary by collective, Ajabu Ajabu.
Join us before the film for an introduction from the Ajabu Ajabu film collective.
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Socialite Norma Shearer risks total ruination after a sordid love affair with murderous gangster Clark Gable.
With an introduction by Christina Newland.
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Join Annouchka De Andrade, Sarah Maldoror’s daughter, for a special screening of this unforgettable revolutionary film about a pivotal moment in Angola’s fight for freedom.
Join us before the film for an introduction by Mosa Mpetha (Co-founder of The Black Cinema Project) with special guest Annouchka De Andrade, Sarah Maldoror’s daughter.
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Join the dream team (author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson and film critic and journalist Christina Newland) for a conversation about the rights and wrongs of Pre-code Hollywood.
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Made in the twilight of the silent era Sunrise is a milestone of Film Expressionism and one of the few films to instantly achieve legendary status.
Join us before the film for an introduction from Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove.
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Two Senegalese émigré street cleaners enter a “haute cuisine” competition to help their friend after stumbling upon a 19th-century cookbook.
With an introduction by Annouchka de Andrade, daughter of Sarah Maldoror.
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Marlene Dietrich is at her wicked best as Shanghai Lily, a courtesan whose reputation brings a hint of scandal to a train ride through war-torn China.
Join us before the film for an introduction from film historian, programmer and video editor Jonathan Bygraves.
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Director Sara Gómez assesses the complexities of intersectional, marginalised lives in 1970's Cuba through a factual narrative that contextualises the relationship, the community, and the tensions of life in a new socialist society.
With an introduction from Lisa Harewood (Twelve 30 Collective).
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Curator Karen Alexander presents a trio of shorts that resonate with bell hooks's seminal classic collection of essays on film, Reel To Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies.
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Set on the stunning French Riviera during the height of Nice’s world famous carnival, Georg Jacoby’s The Joker is a highly entertaining thrill-ride starring Weston-super-Mare's Henry Edwards as the charismatic ‘joker’.
With an introduction by writer and broadcaster Dr Matthew Sweet and a recorded score by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius.
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Former V&A Curator Keith Lodwick will explore how costume designers Adrian and Banton were central to the creation of both the character and the public image of two Golden Age stars, Dietrich and Garbo.
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Join author and activist So Mayer and guests for the UK Premiere of one of the first pro-gay documentaries in the history of cinema, painstakingly restored by the Munich Film Museum nearly a century after it was made.
Join us before the film for an introduction by author and activist So Mayer (A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing, 2020), and a post-screening discussion with guests including writer Adam Zmith.
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Charles Burnett's tender, witty and affectionate tale of a disillusioned slaughterhouse worker, and the solace to be found in the simplest moments of life.
With an introduction by curator Karen Alexander.
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20th Century Flicks (about 9 min walk from Watershed)
An unnamed, aspiring actress's quest for new work lands her in the warm, supportive embrace of a women-run phone sex agency in Spike Lee's overlooked comedy.
With an introduction by curator Karen Alexander.
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One of the most jarringly original independent films of the 1990s, Nina Menkes’ lost underground classic re-emerges in this gorgeous new restoration.
Join us after the film for a Q&A with director Nina Menkes.
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An ode to drugs, sex, and diamonds starring veteran screen pair William Powell and Kay Francis as a gentleman thief and the posh lady who falls for him.
With an introduction by Christina Newland.
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One of the era’s most sophisticated examinations of gender and identity with Garbo perfect as the bisexual Swedish monarch who was raised from birth as a boy.
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A moving, yet unsentimental, view of motherhood that challenges social biases about adoption and offers new insight into mother-daughter relationships.
With an introduction by curator Karen Alexander.
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The Afterlight documents the physical presence of over three hundred actors who are no longer alive and must reconcile themselves to a life lived solely through the performances they committed to celluloid.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with director Charlie Shackleton.
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In this much-loved cult classic, an emotional and romantic bond develops between one of cinema’s most unlikely pairs.
With an introduction by Daisy Steinhardt, freelance writer and UWE film studies student (20th Century Flicks).
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20th Century Flicks (about 9 min walk from Watershed)
A hybrid fantasy/horror vision combining elements of 90s pop-culture, folk horror, and the uncanny that explores themes around redemption, identity and belonging.
Join us before the film for an introduction from Film Programmer and Writer Adam Murray (Bristol Black Horror Club, Come The Revolution).
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Across Bristol
Join local film enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for the first of two different, gentle, walks that between them take in the landmarks and personalities of Cinema in Central Bristol from the 1880s to the present day.
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During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance...
With a pre-recorded Q&A with Bill Morrison hosted by Dr Pete Walsh.
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Fritz Lang's first American film is a searing indictment of mob justice and lynching - and still a striking cautionary tale.
With an introduction by James Harrison (Film Noir UK and South West Silents Co-director).
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A compelling documentary on the migration of pioneering African Americans to Paris and the ensuing cultural exchange, from Josephine Baker and beyond.
With an introduction by Black Paris curator Karen Alexander and followed by a Q&A with entrepreneur Eric Collins (Channel 4’s The Money Maker).
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Fancy diving deeper into film culture? Whether you’re a film lover or are aspiring to work in film writing/criticism, this session will give you insights into one of the world’s most distinctive international voices in film journalism: NOTEBOOK – created, prepared and published by MUBI.
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A nameless fugitive escapes from a Gansu Province labour camp, desperate to see a newsreel said to promise a glimpse of his estranged daughter.
With an introduction by Cinema Curator and Cinema Rediscovered Founder Mark Cosgrove.
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The first part of an epic masterpiece of conspiracy that constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia.
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Jean Harlow sizzles and the dialogue crackles in this boundary-pushing comedy of sex and social-climbing.
With an introduction by Pamela Hutchinson.
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The improbable but true story of con man Douglas Street, the titular “chameleon” who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder.
With a pre-recorded introduction by film writer and programmer, now Curatorial Director of the Criterion Collection, Ashley Clark.
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From the makers of French musical Zou Zou, this comedy sees a mischievous shepherd girl rising through society to become a pretend princess and the toast of Paris nightlife.
A new digital restoration courtesy of George Eastman Museum and Kino Lorber, with an introduction by Dr Terri Simone Francis.
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Araya is a poetic, visually arresting look at life on Venezuela’s Araya Peninsula, where generations of labourers have depended on mining the arid region’s salt pans for their livelihood.
Join us before the film for an introduction by curator Lorena Pino Montilla.
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The second part of Fritz Lang's epic masterpiece of conspiracy that constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia.
Presented as part of Bristol Ideas and South West Silents' #Modernism2022, with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney.
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Billy Wilder's sizzling, simmering tale of seduction and murder where our wise cracking hero, insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) is seduced way out of his depth by the bracelet charms, and more, of Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck).
Join us before the film for an introduction from Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove.
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A landmark work of wuxia cinema, Swordsman of all Swordsmen, newly restored by the Taiwan Film Institute tells the revenge story of Tsai Ying-chieh (Tien Peng).
With an introduction by Andy Willis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME in Manchester.
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The gripping and tension-laden original thriller by Bristol-born J. Lee Thompson about an embittered ex-con terrorising the frightened family of the meek lawyer who put him in prison.
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Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman play a pair of American ex-pat jazz musicians living la vie bohème in Paris in this intoxicating, music-filled romance.
With an introduction by Black Paris curator Karen Alexander.