What’s on this week at Watershed, Bristol - cinema times, film and event info

Sat 31 July - Fri 6 Aug

The Sparks Brothers

Thu 29 July - Thu 5 Aug

Film

Director Edgar Wright returns with a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Russell & Ron Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks - 'your favorite band's favorite band.'

Limbo

12A PS

Book Tickets

Fri 30 July - Thu 5 Aug

Film

Ben Sharrock’s critically adored Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it follows a group of new arrivals as they await the results of their asylum claims.

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

Book Tickets

Fri 30 July - Thu 5 Aug

Film

Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn Andrésen, the former teen star who once embodied legendary character Tadzio in Visconti’s masterpiece, takes us on a remarkable journey of personal memories, cinema history, stardust and tragedy in what could be Björn’s last attempt to finally get his life back on track.

Cinema Walk

Bristol UNESCO City of Film

Sold Out

Sat 31 July 11:00, 16:30

Walking tour

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.

UK Premiere: The More the Merrier

U Restored & Rediscovered

Book Tickets

Today at 12:30

Film

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.

Black Paris

Reframing Film

Book Tickets

Streaming Sat 31 July 13:00-14:00

In Venue Talk + Live stream

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.

ONLINE: Film TikTok

Reframing Film

Book Tickets

Streaming Sat 31 July 15:00-16:00

Live stream

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.

Portrait of the Animator as a Young Man

12A Reframing Film

Book Tickets

Sat 31 July 15:30

Event

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

15 Restored & Rediscovered

Book Tickets

Today at 17:30

Film

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.

Cancelled: Film Noir UK Launch: The Maltese Falcon

PG Restored & Rediscovered

Today at 20:00

Film

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.

Five Easy Pieces

15 1971

Book Tickets

Sat 31 July 20:40

Film

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.

Cancelled: The Magic Box

U Bristol UNESCO City of Film

Sun 1 Aug 11:00

Film

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.

UK Premiere: No Place Like Home

18 Restored & Rediscovered

Book Tickets

Sun 1 Aug 15:00

Film

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.

The Open Road (with Live Music)

U S Bristol UNESCO City of Film

Book Tickets

Sun 1 Aug 15:30

Film

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.

UK Premiere: A Man Called Adam

15 Restored & Rediscovered

Book Tickets

Sun 1 Aug 18:00

Film

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.

Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz

Reframing Film

Book Tickets

Sun 1 Aug 20:30

Event

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

MUBI presents: The Harder They Come

Mon 2 - Sun 22 Aug

Streaming + Live stream

A revolutionary and ground-breaking film about music and the underbelly of Jamaican life, Perry Henzell’s cult classic and influential reggae movie starring singer Jimmy Cliff is powered by one of the most infectious scores in cinema history.

As Tears Go By

18 S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Wed 4 - Fri 6 Aug

Film

Wong Kar Wai’s scintillating debut feature is a kinetic, hypercool crime thriller graced with flashes of the impressionistic, daydream visual style.

Now, Voyager

Book Tickets

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Aug

Film

This classic, star-studded melodrama has been gloriously restored in a lovely new print. At once a tender love story, a taut psychological drama, and an inspiring tale of physical and spiritual transformation Bette Davis is at the pinnacle of her career with her performance resulting in her sixth "Best Actress" Oscar nomination.

Zola

Book Tickets

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Aug

Film

From writer-director Janicza Bravo (Lemon) comes the unforgettable and outrageous story of two women who hit the road to score quick cash dancing for money in Tampa, only to find their friendship tested when one of them isn't who she claims to be.

The Fever

12A S

Book Tickets

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Aug

Film

Filmmaker Maya Da-Rin’s debut feature is a mesmerising tale that explores desire, tenderness, and the friction between two worlds – the industrialised city and the tranquil Amazon rainforest.

Now, Voyager

Book Tickets

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Aug

Film

Zola

Book Tickets

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Aug

Film

The Fever

12A S

Book Tickets

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Aug

Film

Filmmaker Maya Da-Rin’s debut feature is a mesmerising tale that explores desire, tenderness, and the friction between two worlds – the industrialised city and the tranquil Amazon rainforest.

Relaxed Screening: The Fever

12A S

Book Tickets

Sat 7 Aug 15:00

Film

A relaxed screening of filmmaker Maya Da-Rin’s debut feature which is a mesmerising tale that explores desire, tenderness, and the friction between two worlds – the industrialised city and the tranquil Amazon rainforest.

Days of Being Wild

12A S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Sat 7 - Wed 11 Aug

Film

Featuring a spectacular cast of Hong Kong’s biggest starts, Wong’s sophomore feature tied together his favourite themes of time, memory and rejection in a hypnotic drama.

Chungking Express

12A S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Thu 12 - Sun 15 Aug

Film

This bright and breezy comedy was Wong’s international breakthrough hit, now one of the defining works of 1990s cinema. Composed of intersecting love stories about two brokenhearted policemen and the women they fall for, it is funny, breathlessly inventive and dizzyingly romantic,

Wildland

12A S

Book Tickets

Fri 13 - Thu 19 Aug

Film

Following the death of her alcoholic mother, Ida (Sandra Kampp) is placed by social services with her aunt (Sidse Babette Knudsen) and her grown-up sons, a side of her family she barely knows. At the worst time in her life, Ida finds herself in a loving home welcomed with open arms but all is not what it seems.

I'm Your Man

18 (CTBA) S

Book Tickets

Fri 13 - Thu 19 Aug

Film

Inspired by a short story written by Emma Braslavsky, I'm Your Man is a humorous tale about the questions of love, longing, and what makes a human being human.

New Order

18 S

Book Tickets

Fri 13 - Thu 19 Aug

Film

Prepare yourself for an intricate psychological dystopian drama that portrays the shocking and provocative depiction of class warfare in contemporary Mexico, as a joyous wedding is suddenly interpreted.

Chungking Express

12A S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Thu 12 - Sun 15 Aug

Film

Wildland

12A S

Book Tickets

Fri 13 - Thu 19 Aug

Film

I'm Your Man

18 (CTBA) S

Book Tickets

Fri 13 - Thu 19 Aug

Film

Inspired by a short story written by Emma Braslavsky, I'm Your Man is a humorous tale about the questions of love, longing, and what makes a human being human.

New Order

18 S

Book Tickets

Fri 13 - Thu 19 Aug

Film

Fallen Angels

15 S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Sat 14 - Sun 15 Aug

Film

Swinging between hard-boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

In The Mood For Love

PG S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Wed 18 - Sun 22 Aug

Film

Prepare to be dazzled by Wong Kar Wai’s elegant and breathtaking masterpiece, a heartbreaking story of illicit love that pulses with the ache and agony of repressed desire.

Happy Together

15 S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Wed 18 - Thu 19 Aug

Film

One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylised portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing as a couple traveling through Argentina falling in and out of love.

Escher: Journey Into Infinity

Book Tickets

Fri 20 - Thu 26 Aug

Film

Delve deep into the world and legacy of M.C Escher (1898-1972), world-famous Dutch graphic designer and creator of some of the most famous stunning and psychedelic artworks that continue to influence our culture now.

MUBI presents: The Harder They Come

Mon 2 - Sun 22 Aug

Streaming + Live stream

In The Mood For Love

PG S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Wed 18 - Sun 22 Aug

Film

Prepare to be dazzled by Wong Kar Wai’s elegant and breathtaking masterpiece, a heartbreaking story of illicit love that pulses with the ache and agony of repressed desire.

Escher: Journey Into Infinity

Book Tickets

Fri 20 - Thu 26 Aug

Film

2046

12A S Wong Kar Wai

Book Tickets

Wed 25 - Thu 26 Aug

Film

A sequel of sorts to In The Mood For Love, 2046 delves into the pain of romantic heartache and the emotional wreckage it leaves behind.

Going forward with care – some changes at Watershed

This Week

Sat 31 July - Fri 6 Aug

Sat 7 - Fri 13 Aug

Sat 14 - Fri 20 Aug

Sat 21 - Fri 27 Aug