Activity highlights
Although the Watershed building may be closed we are still sharing different ways for you all to enjoy and experience highlights from across our activity - cinema, creative tech, the Pervasive Media Studio, Rife Magazine and many more Watershed projects.
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A constant fixture in critics' polls, Yasujiro Ozu's most enduring masterpiece is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret.
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Shinya Tsukamoto's wild cyberpunk tale of a businessman's agonising transformation into a walking scrap heap is a jaggedly dehumanised vision of the future.
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Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai movie - a story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress - was famously a key inspiration for George Lucas’ Star Wars.
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Farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.
Red Front: 75 Years of Russian War Cinema
Watershed Recommends Week 10
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Earlier in the year we partnered with the Kino Klassika Foundation to bring you a season of Russian musicals. We're thrilled to partner with them again to celebrate their season Red Front - 75 Years of Russian War Cinema.
Available now online
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Considered one of the best horror films of all times, a deeply disturbing tale of a deadly young woman who turns the tables on her middle-aged suitor
White Riot
Watershed Recommends Week 10
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Rubika Shah’s vital prize-winning documentary, expanded from her 2017 short film of the same name, explores how 70s London protest movement Rock Against Racism (RAR) confronted British fascists head-on.
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Kurosawa’s classic about a drifting samurai who plays two gangs off against each other, famously remade as A Fistful of Dollars.
Lunchtime Talk: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Watershed Recommends Week 10
Streaming on Fri 29 May at 13:00
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Studio Residents Lily & Tim will be talking us through how Grapevine works, how you can get involved and some insight into transforming an R&D project into an inclusive company.
#shortitout with Åsa Lucander
Watershed Recommends Week 10
Streaming on Thu 4 Jun at 18:00
Live stream
Join us for our next Filmmaker Frontroom Q&A with director, illustrator and animator Åsa Lucander.
Wed 22 July 18:00
Talk
What is the future for film criticism? To open the 5th edition of Cinema Rediscovered (22 - 26 July) Pamela Hutchinson, author, critic and film historian, explores the place and potential for new writing on almost 130 years of filmmaking.
May 2020 Cinema Podcast
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.
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