Cinema Rediscovered 2021 | Programme

The Story of A Three Day Pass c/o Janus Films

Previous events in this programme

Please note: This event took place in Aug 2021

Café & Bar, Watershed

Look out for a selection of archive shorts curated by South West Silents’ James Harrison as part of Opening Up the Magic Box which marks the centenary of the death of Bristol-born Victorian cinema innovator William Friese-Greene.

Phillip French Memorial Lecture: Pamela Hutchinson

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson will explore the role of film critics in rethinking and reframing film heritage and the importance of looking back to understand and explore what’s happening in film culture right now.

This talk will have full British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation.

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments.

With an introduction by Watershed's Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove. After its preview screening on the opening night of Cinema Rediscovered, In The Mood For Love screens at Watershed from 18 - 22 Aug as part of Watershed's August Wong Kar Wai season and at Curzon Cinema & Arts in Clevedon on Sun 1 Aug.

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Online

Some of the most distinctive voices in film curation and archiving come together to explore the potential of reframing film heritage.

For more information and to book a place on these events (which are all free and online), visit the Film Hub South West page.

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

One of the earliest music documentaries, photographer Bert Stern’s film captures an all-star line-up of performers from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, periodically cutting away to the stylish Rhode Island community.

With an introduction by writer/curator Karen Alexander.

ONLINE: Ricky Riccardi on Louis Armstrong

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

YouTube

To mark the 50th anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s passing in July 1971, Bristol Blues & Jazz Film Festival present a special event to celebrate his legacy and onscreen presence from the late ‘50s to the late 60s.

This is a pre-recorded event that will screen live on Watershed's YouTube channel

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville, this elegy to cinema itself shot in highly evocative black and white focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens.

With an introduction by author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson. The Last Picture Show will also screen at Curzon Cinema & Arts in Clevedon on Sun 8 Aug.

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula, Klute  saw Jane Fonda bring counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the centre of a missing-person investigation.

With an introduction from Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove.

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

Sparse dialogue, rugged landscapes, masculine spectacles and disco dancing - Claire Denis loosely adapts and updates Herman Melville’s Billy Budd to take place in a French Foreign Legion outpost in East Africa.

This screening will be introduced by Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove (Watershed/Cinema Rediscovered) and followed by a pre-recorded interview with Cinematographer Agnès Godard.

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Zoom

Discover how film and media archives are collecting history as it happens. We talk to the BFI National Archive about collecting online video content, television, and their explorations into preserving VR.

ONLINE: Rewriting Film History (With The Women in it)

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

What might an alternative history of cinema, one with the women in it, really look like? Archive activists Invisible Women speak to writers Helen O’Hara, Simran Hans and Pamela Hutchinson about reimagining female centric film criticism.

Please note this event is a live discussion on Zoom that will be streamed into the cinema.

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Online

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

With its fascinating morally ambiguous characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, Robert Altman’s anti-western McCabe and Mrs Miller brilliantly reframed the entrenched values of the Western genre.

With a pre-recorded introduction by Amos Levin (Video Editor and Programmer)

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

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

Film programmer, writer, critic and broadcaster Adam Murray pays homage to actor Yaphet Kotto with a special showing of Blue Collar (1978), an uncompromising tale of three-working men starring Kotto as Smokey James alongside double trouble Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel.

Introduced by film programmer, writer, critic and broadcaster Adam Murray, (Bristol Black Horror Club, Come The Revolution, Cables & Cameras).

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

Shot in gorgeous atmospheric widescreen, this is one of the most un-Hollywood films ever made by Hollywood. Directed by maverick director Monte Hellman (who recently passed away), it remains a timeless, existential portrait of lives in transit and of a country questioning its identity.

With an introduction from Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove.

Bristol Black Horror Film Club: The Beast Must Die

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

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

Join Bristol Black Horror Club for their launch event, a rare screening of the late Paul Annett’s 1974 feature-directorial debut for The Beast Must Die, a camp action-horror-hybrid with a twist of country-house-whodunit and Blaxploitation cool.

Introduced by film programmer, writer, critic and broadcaster Adam Murray, (Bristol Black Horror Club, Come The Revolution, Cables & Cameras).

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Across Bristol

Join us for a guided tour through the city centre, following in the footsteps of pioneers in photography and motion pictures, and visit the ghosts of lost picture palaces as well as thriving cinemas and film locations of today.

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles Coburn find that three’s a crowd in the delightful screwball romp, making pointed comedy out of the serious issue of the housing shortage in Washington DC during the first months of World War II.

With an introduction by author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson.

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Writer and Curator Karen Alexander will be in conversation with Mark Cosgrove (Watershed/Cinema Rediscovered Curator) to explore the appeal of Paris to Black Americans and will explore the range and legacy of their creative presence in the city of love.

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Zoom

Know your WitchTok from your Cottagecore? Join a panel of experts to explore the emerging trends of Film TikTok and how film fans can best use the platform.

Please note: This event took place in July 2021

Academy Award® winner Nick Park joins Mark Cosgrove (Watershed / Cinema Rediscovered Curator) for a pre-recorded conversation about some of his earliest work to introduce the world premiere of the restoration of his live action short A Fisherman's Tale.

UK Premiere: The Story of a Three-Day Pass

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

The UK premiere of the 4K restoration of Melvin Van Peebles’ little known Nouvelle Vague infused debut feature, an edgy, romantic film set in Paris of 1968 inspired by his personal experiences in the United States Air Force.

This screening will be introduced by Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator and Karen Alexander, independent film and moving image curator, writer and researcher.

Please note, this screening will take place in both Cinema 1 and Cinema 3 at the same time and the introduction in Cinema 1 will be a streamed live into Cinema 3.

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

Arnolfini

Considered by many to be the first film noir, certainly a key title in laying the foundations for that all American genre of mean streets, knife-edged heroes, dark shadows and tough dames, experience John Huston’s debut feature on the big screen on its 80th anniversary, launching Film Noir UK.

With an introduction by Co-director of Film Noir UK James Harrison. Launched in 2021 by South West Silents, Film Noir UK is the first dedicated film organisation in the UK celebrating the ever-influential world of Film Noir.

Please note: This was screened in July 2021

Following his breakout turn in Easy Rider, rising star Jack Nicholson gives an extraordinary performance as Bobby Dupea; a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to some kind of reckoning at his upper-middle-class childhood home.

With a pre-recorded introduction by Gaylene Gould (The Space To Come Creative Director, broadcaster and writer).

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2021

Arnolfini

Born in Bristol in 1855, William Friese-Greene began producing photographic images for John Rudge's magic lanterns in 1880. Breaking both his photographic partnership with Arthur Collings and his marriages to Helena and Edith, William Friese-Greene sacrificed everything in a bid to produce a machine that could record and produce motion pictures.

With an pre-recorded introduction by film director and historian Peter Domankiewicz.

Peter Domankiewicz and Christopher Frayling: Who was William Friese-Greene?

Please note: This event took place in Aug 2021

Online

As we mark the centenary of his death, Peter Domankiewicz and Sir Christopher Frayling reassess the place of William Friese-Greene – Bristol-born photographer, inventor and pioneer of cinematography – in cinema history.

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2021

Perry Henzell's follow-up to The Harder They Come went unseen as the negative was thought lost for over 25 years. Found and restored, this road movie through Jamaica is the memorable last testament of an undeniably great filmmaker.

This screening is presented by Twelve30 Collective and followed by a discussion with Perry’s daughter Justine Henzell (streamed in) hosted by co-curators Jonathan Ali and Lisa Harewood.

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2021

A colourful travelogue by Claude Friese-Greene (son of William) filmed during the summer of 1924 from Land’s End to John O’Groats with live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand.

With an introduction by BFI National Archive silent film curator Bryony Dixon and live music by Neil Brand, a silent film accompanist.

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2021

A star-studded cast of African-American musical and acting talent from Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr and Ossie Davis, A Man Called Adam is also the debut feature for Lola Falana and the late Cicely Tyson.

With an introduction by writer/curator Karen Alexander.

Please note: This event took place in Aug 2021

Online

Wind down and rediscover the movie trivia hidden in the recesses of your brain with a special Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz from the comfort of your home via YouTube.

Please note: This event took place in Aug 2021

Café & Bar, Watershed

Wind down and rediscover the movie trivia hidden in the recesses of your brain with a special Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz.