Cinema Rediscovered 2019 | Programme

Previous events in this programme

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 1, Watershed

In this free event for BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) Members, some of the most distinctive voices in curation and archiving open up a conversation on the potential of reclaiming and reframing archives.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

A collection of rare archive films that shed light on the New Towns movement and the experiences of their early pioneers. Presented by Heather McIntosh, Independent Cinema Office.

With an introduction by Heather McIntosh, Film Programmer (Independent Cinema Office)

Philip French Memorial Lecture: Simran Hans

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

What is the future for film criticism? To opens the 4th edition of Cinema Rediscovered (25 - 28th July) Simran Hans, film critic for the Observer, responds to some of the most pressing concerns about the role of the critic in uncertain times.

Get 20% off Cotswold Gin & Tonic, our opening night drinks sponsor in the Café & Bar with any Cinema Rediscovered festival ticket.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman pair up in Hitchcock’s post-war spy thriller, film noir – with just a dash of screwball dialogue and some serious romance – and the results are electric.

With an introduction by critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson (Sight & Sound, Guardian)

Get 20% off Cotswold Gin & Tonic, our opening night drinks sponsor in the Café & Bar with any Cinema Rediscovered festival ticket.

Notorious also screens from Fri 9 Aug for at least one week.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

A late night screening of B movie director, writer and producer Larry Cohen’s best known works featuring a mutant baby, a score by Bernard Herrmann, and special effects and make up from Rick Baker.

With an introduction by Dr Andy Willis, University of Salford.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Across Bristol

Join Dr Peter Walsh, South West Silents Co-Director, on a guided tour through the city centre, and reflect on Bristol born filmmakers and actors, discover cinema related establishments, and look at the crumbling ruins of Bristol’s filmic past.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Il Cinema Ritrovato Co-director and filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht presents his found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

With introductions by director Ehsan Khoshbakht, also Il Cinema Ritrovato Co-director.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Muriel Box's critically acclaimed 1955 film anticipated reality television by half a century, and spoofed the BBC with tongue-in-cheek humour.

With an introduction by film and media archivist and historian Rosie Taylor

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Nicolas Roeg’s classic plunged two white children (teenager Jenny Agutter and Roeg’s six-year-old son Luc) into the harsh environment of the Australian outback.

With an introduction by writer/curator Karen Alexander.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

This darkly-comic film by multimedia artist Rachel Maclean takes a satirical look at how TV and social media can be fun spaces to explore identity, but simultaneously a gilded prison that encourages women to conform to strict beauty ideals.

With an introduction by curator, researcher and educator Ben GJ Thomas.

A Lost World Made New: Victorian Cinema in VR

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

BFI National Film Archive collaborate with Bristol-based company BDH to represent Victorian filmmakers' early experiments via Virtual Reality.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

A focus on the playful, incisive work of Nigerien filmmaker Moustapha Alassane, including UK premieres of brand new restorations of some of his most celebrated films.

With an introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht (Il Cinema Ritrovato co-director) and Curator Ian Sergeant.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Nic Roeg's masterful, unflinching and deeply disturbing foray into the dark world of sexual obsession.

With an introduction by Jason Wood, Creative Director of HOME and Professor of Film at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

A selection of films by Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first filmmakers to direct a narrative fiction film, and the first known woman filmmaker.

With an introduction by Pamela Hutchinson and live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

Join Helen De Witt, curator and lecturer in Film Studies at Birkbeck University of the Arts London, writer/curator Karen Alexander, and filmmaker, author and academic Vicky Smith for a conversation on the inspirational legacy of Anthology Film Archives.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Nic Roeg’s first feature film co-directed with art world bohemian Donald Cammell produced an era-defining portrait of swinging 60s decadence meets brutal east end underworld.

The screening will be followed by Q&A and then a book signing in the Café & Bar with Producer Sandy Lieberson and author Jay Glennie whose large format Performance: 50th Anniversary Book will be on sale for the special price of £39.99 (instead of its retail price of £100) for ticket holders.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Take a bittersweet bite from the tree of transgression. Made at the height of the Czech New Wave cinema, Vera Chytilová's film is a direct and subversive response to the political struggle in the former Czechoslovakia.

With an introduction by Michael Pattison (MUBI Notebook, Sight & Sound and Creative Director at Alchemy Film & Arts)

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

Post-punk and pre-digital, the Scala was London’s most infamous repertory cinema. Join author, film exhibitor (and previous programme manager for The Scala) Jane Giles in conversation with Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove for a discussion on the Scala's influence.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

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

From Brian Yuzna, the filmmaker behind Re-Animator, comes yet another gross out B-movie, but this time it's dripping with salty satire. Shelved for three years after its debut on the festival circuit, first at Cannes, the film finally gained a US theatrical release in 1992.

With an introduction by Sophie Mair, Genre Writer.

Screening in The Videodrome at 20th Century Flicks video shop, 19 Christmas Steps.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

If ever evidence was to be presented for filmmaking as a unique art form then Nic Roeg's masterpiece Don't Look Now, a film about love and grief wrapped up in a psychological thriller, could be used to mount the case.

With an introduction by Professor Helen Taylor.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Café & Bar, Watershed

Join us in the Café and Bar for a special take over to celebrate 30 years of Mr Bongo, the iconic record shop and film label, before a late night screening of Mexican/Italian cult classic Santa Sangre.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

A violent, bloody, dream-like work like no other, Alejandro Jodorowsky's unsettling, troubling and oddly rewarding Santa Sangre follows a boy who grows up in the circus and whose strange experiences mark his life.

With an introduction by former Scala Cinema Club Programmer turned historian Jane Giles.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Join Film and Media Archivist and Historian Rosie Taylor 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.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien co-directed the first full-length feature by Sankofa Film and Video. A radical commentary on race, gender and sexuality.

With an introduction by film curator Karen Alexander.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 1, Watershed

Join us at one of these free drop-in sessions to have a go at making up a 35mm film print and projecting it yourself.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Feast your eyes on this seminal tale of greed, hedonism and excess, just don't get tempted to take a bite!

With an introduction by critic Paul Farrell

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

Join Film and Media Archivist, Historian and South West Silents Co-Director Rosie Taylor for a Lunchtime Talk about her passion for film and her journey into the BFI National Film Archive.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

A selection of Maureen Blackwood's award-winning short films presented by writer/curator Karen Alexander.

With an introduction by film curator Karen Alexander and Q&A with director Maureen Blackwood (who will join in by Skype).

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Released the same year as Chytilová's Fruit of Paradise, and as an unofficial sequel to Daisies, Krumbachová The Murder of Mr Devil is another outrageous and acerbic tale of provocative moral anarchy.

With an introduction by Thea Berry, Watershed Cinema Producer

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

Join Cinema Rediscovered Film Critics workshop alumni and critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson for a reflection on the current state of film criticism and the contemporary issues facing working critics in the UK and beyond.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Park Chan-wook's classic revenge thriller Oldboy returns to cinema screens in stunning 4K.

Oldboy also screens from Tue 13 - Thu 15 Aug.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Join us for a special screening of documentary Ouaga, capitale du cinéma straight from Il Cinema Ritrovato's celebration of the 50th anniversary of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in the world.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Join Bristol-born director Mike Hodges for a 20th anniversary screening of his sophisticated noir thriller, starring Clive Owen as a croupier who gets sucked into the world of a corrupt casino.

Followed by a Q&A with director Mike Hodges hosted by broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

Join Graeme Hogg from the Cube Cinema and Nachleben Experimental Film Archive for a free talk about the processes involved in digitising some nitrate film that was found at the Curzon Cinema & Arts in Clevedon.

The Final Girls present: Eyes of Laura Mars

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Fresh off her Oscar® win for Network (1976), Faye Dunaway stars as Laura Mars, a renowned yet controversial fashion photographer, haunted by psychic visions of a serial killer stalking the fashion community.

With an introduction from The Final Girls

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

The fatalistic story of a crash-landed alien outsider and aid mission gone disastrously wrong, Nic Roeg's idiosyncratic exploration of the sci-fi genre has stood the test of time. Now gorgeously restored, this stranger than science fiction tale can be enjoyed by audiences all over again.

With an introduction by Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator.

After the screening, join in our FREE 45s & 35s Saturday night analogue extravanganza in the Café/Bar with Mr Hopkinson, video artist, DJ and singing computer owner based at BEEF and the Cube Microplex on sound and Graeme Hogg, Artist and Co-founder of the Cube Cinema on projection.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Café & Bar, Watershed

Join us in the Café/Bar for a night of 35mm projection and a live vinyl set loosely themed around The Man Who Fell To Earth brought to you by Graeme Hogg and Mr Hopkinson.

Ever fancied making up a film print and projecting film yourself? Drop by the Analogue Room on Sat 27 July between 10:30 - 18:00 where you can get your hands on film, have a go at identifying film stock and try out splicing, making up and projecting some of the 35mm film content we'll be using at this event.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Mike Hodges directs this thriller starring Roseanna Arquette as a spiritualist who becomes a disembodied witness to a brutal killing.

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

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Across Bristol

Join Graeme Hogg, co-founder of the Cube Cinema in Bristol and Nachleben Experimental Film Archive on a tour of his Bedminster Studio. This is for anyone interested in film and the machines and techniques used to project, print, and shoot it.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Curzon Clevedon (about 45 min bus journey from Watershed)

Join us on a day trip to Curzon Cinema and Arts in Clevedon for a tour of one of the oldest running cinemas in the UK, followed by a screening of iconic sci- fi Soylent Green.

The Cook, The Thief, The Wife & Her Lover

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Given an X rating in the US, and creating a furore on home shores for its allegory on Thatcherism, Peter Greenaway's infamous avant-garde crime dramedy is a foul feast on Britain's social, moral and political carcass.

With an introduction by Sean Wilson, film journalist.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Twenty years after the July 1969 Apollo 11 space landing this documentary brought to a wider public the extraordinary human achievements involved. With a specially composed score by Brian Eno.

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Celebrated as the first Berlinale Golden Bear awarded to a female director, Márta Mészáros’ Adoption is a powerful meditation on agency and womanhood in a world that waits to give permission.

With an introduction by Julia Ray, UWE MA in Curation Student at Watershed

Robert Who? Rediscovering Britain's Forgotten Film Pioneer

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

Join Professor Ian Christie for an illustrated talk on early film pioneer Robert Paul, who co-created the first movie camera in Britain and built England's first film studio, amongst many other things!

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Twenty five years after its premiere at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, revist Steve James' newly restored landmark documentary Hoop Dreams, which tells the story of two African-American dreamers determined to one day play professional basketball.

With an introduction by writer, curator and broadcaster Adam Murray (Come The Revolution, Cables & Camera, Ujima)

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Three decades after being overlooked by critics, Eureka returns to reclaim a place among both the front ranks of Nic Roeg's work and as one of the most extraordinary studio films of the 1980s.

With an introduction by Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Perhaps the darkest of the Ealing comedies, this coolly elegant, subversive masterpiece was originally billed as "a hilarious study in the gentle art of murder." Followed by a discussion with Terence Davies.

Followed by discussion with director Terence Davies hosted by broadcaster Matthew Sweet.

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Waterside 2, Watershed

How on earth did Willie Green, a working-class kid from Bristol, become William Friese-Greene, the first person to present a movie camera to the world?

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

An innovative, impressionistic portrait of contemporary life in Hale County, Alabama, chronicling a small community of people who come up against ordinary and uncommon odds.

With an introduction by writer, curator and broadcaster Adam Murray (Come The Revolution, Cables & Cameras, Ujima)

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

A piercing and unforgettable film, we are pleased to present this very special premiere of the UK theatrical re-release of Une Femme Douce. Returning to the big screen with greater potency than before, Robert Bresson's film is the final word on the impact of the male gaze.

With an introduction TBC.

Park Circus Presents: 20th Century Flicks Film Quiz

Please note: This event took place in July 2019

Café & Bar, Watershed

For one night only, the infamous 20th Century Flicks Film Quiz comes to Watershed. Test your knowledge across a wide range of film geekery with hosts Dave "Herzog" Taylor and Mr Bags as they rediscover movie trivia in the bar.