Cinema Rediscovered 2018 | Programme

Previous events in this programme

Please note: This event took place in July 2018

Waterside 1, Watershed

Some of the most distinctive voices in cinema curation open up a conversation on the importance of re-presenting and reframing archives, and in shifting our perspective on the past.

Right Here Right Now – Archiving For the Future

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Archive practitioners from around the world and closer to home to share the story behind a recent addition to their archive.

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Writer, broadcaster and Senior Curator of fiction film and television at BFI National Archive, Danny Leigh, gives his perspective on reframing the past, present and future of the archive.

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A sumptuous restoration of James Ivory's 1987 adaptation of E M Forster's gay love story about two Cambridge students in 1911.

With an introduction by Rhidian Davis, BFI Cultural Programme Manager. We will also screen Maurice from Fri 3 Aug for one week.

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Billy Wilder's Oscar®-winning comedy stars Jack Lemmon as a New York insurance drone who lets his superiors use his apartment for their illicit affairs.

With an introduction by Nick Varley, CEO at Park Circus.

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Looking back at Bristol’s own cinematic history, join Dr Peter Walsh on a tour around the centre reflecting on our city’s rich film making and film going past.

Come The Revolution Presents: Madeline Anderson

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A shorts programme of the work of Madeline Anderson, the first African-American woman to executive-produce a nationally aired television series.

Presented by Come the Revolution curator and writer Liz Chege.

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A year after they'd created one of the defining British gangster pictures with Get Carter, Bristol-born director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine reunite for this funny parody about private eyes...

Followed by a Q&A with director Mike Hodges and Professor Andrew Spicer (UWE)

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An illustrated panel discussion to mark the 25th anniversary of the first Black Pyramid film festival.

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Before the Seventh Seal there was the Phantom Carriage, a stone-cold classic of Swedish silent filmmaking that haunts the cinema of both Ingmar Bergman and the French new wave.

With an introduction by Dr Peter Walsh and screening with live musical accompaniment from Stephen Horne.

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From Ildikó Enyedi (On Body and Soul), this magical film spins a tale of twin girls who are born in 1880 Budapest on the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electrical lightbulb to the world.

With an introduction by Pamela Hutchinson (Sight & Sound, Guardian)

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The Final Girls present a deeply underrated horror that looks at the twisted dynamic that emerges between an astronomer and her psychotic sister.

With an introduction from The Final Girls.

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Museum Square

In a first for Cinema Rediscovered, join us for a special free outdoor screening of the sci-fi cult classic Flash Gordon in Museum Square to celebrate Bristol's new status as UNESCO City of Film.

Please note: This was screened in July 2018

Join us for a 20th anniversary late night screening of arguably one of the greatest cult comedies of all time: the Coen Brothers' deconstructed film noir following slacker hero 'the Dude'. Virtual bowling in the Café/Bar before the film - prizes to be won!

With an introduction by writer and filmmaker Katie Hogan.

Please note: This event took place in July 2018

Waterside 3 Event Space, Watershed

The Cinema Rediscovered Film Fair returns for its third year by popular demand. Come and get your hands on some of the best DVDs/Blu-rays and film related merchandise the UK can offer!

Please note: This was screened in July 2018

Waterside 1, Watershed

A rare chance to see the entirety of Fassbinder's five-part, nearly eight-hour long 1973 television series about a working class German family, now stunningly restored.

With an introduction by Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME in Manchester.

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Jean Renoir's delightful and savage satire, heavily influenced by the French political spirit of the 1930s, sees a group of exploited employees set up a glorious collective when their lecherous boss goes missing.

Introduced by Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator

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BeDevil is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. Presented by writer/curator Karen Alexander.

With an introduction and discussion hosted by writer/curator Karen Alexander

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Join Aardman archivist Tom Vincent on a tour of Watershed’s projection booth and discover how the films screening at the festival make it to the screen during a festival like Cinema Rediscovered.

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Join a panel to discuss André Bazin’s approach to cinema criticism and activism, what it tells us about contemporary film culture, and if he still has relevance today.

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This striking modern romance tells the story of a transgender teen pushed to breaking point when love, life and labels collide.

With an introduction by Jo Bligh, Artistic Director of Thorny and followed by a conversation between Jo and Jason Barker, filmmaker and programmer (FilmBath and BFI Flare).

Please note: This event took place in July 2018

Interested in film/celluloid and the machines and techniques used to project, print and shoot it? Join us for a tour of G.Hogg's (the founder of the Cube) Bedminster Studio, where he works with analogue film.

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Lynne Ramsay's (We Need To Talk About Kevin, Ratcatcher) brilliantly executed minimalist noir stars Joaquin Phoenix as a gun-for-hire who specialises in saving victims from child sex rings.

Introduced by Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator

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Fiction, documentary and performance art meet and mingle in this colourful portrait of gentrification in Brixton. Recently selected for preservation by the BFI, this film contributes to a growing wealth of British filmmaking.

With an introduction by Liz Chege, Come the Revolution.

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One of the definitive British crime films of the 20th century - screening on 35mm and followed by a Q&A with its Bristol-born director Mike Hodges.

Followed by a Q&A with director Mike Hodges and writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet.

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Leslie Harris' 1993 debut - a smart, attitude-packed coming-of-age story set in New York - holds an important place in film history as the first film written and directed by an African American woman to gain British distribution.

Followed by a Q&A with director Leslie Harris. Hosted by writer/curator Karen Alexander

Please note: This event took place in July 2018

Museum Square

In a first for Cinema Rediscovered, travel to Wakanda for a special free outdoor screening of blockbuster Marvel adventure Black Panther in Museum Square to celebrate Bristol's new status as UNESCO City of Film.

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Computer scientist Harry Benson has experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. But as the experiment backfires, his seizures return… with vengeance! Bristol-born Mike Hodges directs this incredibly rare psychological thrill ride.

With an introduction by Dr Mark Bould (UWE) and Mike Hodges

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Curzon Clevedon (about 45 min bus journey from Watershed)

Join us on a trip to Curzon Cinema and Arts in Clevedon, one of the oldest running cinemas in the UK, for a screening of Bill Douglas' epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union.

With an introduction by Dr. Phil Wickham, Curator of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Please note: This was screened in July 2018

Googie Withers stars as a young woman who flouts convention by choosing to run the farm she inherited, and rejecting the man she is expected to marry...

With an introduction by writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet

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Scottish poet, artist and filmmaker Margaret Tait's (1918 - 1999) first feature film Blue, Black, Permanent - about a woman attempting to tell the story of the death of her mother in the Orkney sea.

With an introduction by producer Kate Swan

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Directed by women, each of these five short films playfully reflects upon notions of British sovereignty and identity.

Followed by a Q&A with Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer and Cinema Rediscovered co-curator, and Karen Alexander, Autograph ABP

Bazin 100: Qu'est ce que le cinema? Vol 2

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20th Century Flicks (about 9 min walk from Watershed)

Building on the cinema activism and criticism of André Bazin, join the 20th Century Flicks team for an illustrated journey through their extensive collection of films.

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A special event including the UK Premiere of new 4k restorations of Aardman's earliest films.

With an introduction by Aardman Archivist Tom Vincent and Aardman Co-founder David Sproxton.

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Ealing (and cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's) very first Technicolor feature film is a lavish costume drama set in the 1700s.

With an introduction by Professor Sarah Street

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Gurinder Chadha's debut empowering classic comedy tells the story of a mini-bus full of women from the Asian Women's Centre on a trip to Blackpool.

Followed by a Skype Q&A with writer/director Gurinder Chadha, hosted by Karen Alexander

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Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before - through his own eyes, sketched with his own hand, painted with his own brush.

With an introduction by Dr Peter Walsh. We will also screen The Eyes of Orson Welles from Thu 16 Aug for at least one week - director Mark Cousins joins us for a Q&A after the 16 Aug screening.

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A special preview of the much anticipated re-release of Agnes Varda’s iconic real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.

With an introduction by Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer

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Café & Bar, Watershed

Wind down and rediscover the movie trivia hidden in the recesses of your brain with this very special edition of the infamous 20th Century Flicks Film Quiz in the Café/Bar.