Cinema Rediscovered 2022
Please note: This event finished in July 2022
“Movies make magic. They change things. They take the real and make it into something else right before our very eyes.”
bell hooks (1952 – 2021)
Cinema Rediscovered returns for its sixth edition in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film from Wed 20 – Sun 24 July 2022 celebrating the return of the big screen experience with a line-up of movie magic, from brand new restorations and rediscoveries to film curiosities before going on a UK wide tour from Aug – Oct 2022 with the support of MUBI and BFI awarding funds from National Lottery.
Screening at cinemas including 20th Century Flicks, Clevedon’s Curzon Cinema & Arts, Arnolfini and Watershed, the festival will launch a UK wide tour of highlights (Aug – Oct 2022), and an online offer via MUBI, the global streaming service, production company and film distributor.
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Reframing Film Sessions
Reframing FilmFor those of you working in film exhibition and archives, join some of the most distinctive voices in film curation and archiving to explore the potential of reframing film heritage.
Philip French Memorial Lecture: Samira Ahmed
Reframing FilmAward-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed delivers this year’s Philip French Memorial Lecture reflecting on her journalistic journey through cinema.
UK Premiere: Lost Highway
classified 18 Restored & RediscoveredA brooding jazz saxophonist lives in a simmering state of jealousy with his listless and possibly unfaithful wife in this 4K restoration of David Lynch's classic thriller.
DJ Cheeba Inspired by Lynch
Reframing FilmJoin DJ Cheeba in the Café & Bar for a live DJ/VJ set inspired by the deliriously enigmatic work of David Lynch.
Rewriting Film History (With The Women in It)
Reframing FilmArchive activists Invisible Women speak to guest contributors including So Mayer about reimagining film history through a female-centric lens.
A Door To The Sky
classified 15 S Women’s Stories from the Global SouthFarida Benlyazid's poignant tribute to womanhood and spirituality is brought to life once again through the restoration efforts of the Transnational Moroccan Cinema Project from the University of Exeter.
UK Premiere: Blonde Crazy
classified PG Pre-code HollywoodJames Cagney and Joan Blondell sizzle as a con-artist duo robbing hotel guests in this brilliant crime comedy.
Lunchtime Talk: Global Women’s Film Heritage Networking
Women’s Stories from the Global SouthJoin the team behind Global Women’s Film Heritage, a collective of researchers, archive practitioners and film exhibitors dedicated to making women and their films more visible for a networking lunch reflecting on the absences and presences of women's work in film archives.
Maangamizi: The Ancient One
classified 15 S Women’s Stories from the Global SouthTwo women forge a connection that breaches the confines of time, history, and faith. An essential work of Tanzanian cinema being returned to audiences openly and inclusively in honour of its 20th Anniversary by collective, Ajabu Ajabu.
UK Premiere: A Free Soul
classified 12A Pre-code HollywoodSocialite Norma Shearer risks total ruination after a sordid love affair with murderous gangster Clark Gable.
Sambizanga + Q&A with Annouchka De Andrade
classified 15 S Women’s Stories from the Global SouthJoin Annouchka De Andrade, Sarah Maldoror’s daughter, for a special screening of this unforgettable revolutionary film about a pivotal moment in Angola’s fight for freedom.
Pre-Code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken
Pre-code HollywoodJoin the dream team (author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson and film critic and journalist Christina Newland) for a conversation about the rights and wrongs of Pre-code Hollywood.
Sunrise: A Song of two Humans
classified U When Europe Made HollywoodMade in the twilight of the silent era Sunrise is a milestone of Film Expressionism and one of the few films to instantly achieve legendary status.
A Dessert for Constance
classified 15 S Black ParisTwo Senegalese émigré street cleaners enter a “haute cuisine” competition to help their friend after stumbling upon a 19th-century cookbook.
Shanghai Express
classified PG PS When Europe Made HollywoodMarlene Dietrich is at her wicked best as Shanghai Lily, a courtesan whose reputation brings a hint of scandal to a train ride through war-torn China.
De Cierta Manera
classified 15 S Women’s Stories from the Global SouthDirector Sara Gómez assesses the complexities of intersectional, marginalised lives in 1970's Cuba through a factual narrative that contextualises the relationship, the community, and the tensions of life in a new socialist society.
Reel To Real Shorts
classified 15 bell hooksCurator Karen Alexander presents a trio of shorts that resonate with bell hooks's seminal classic collection of essays on film, Reel To Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies.
Lunchtime Talk: Designing a Character, Creating a Star
Reframing FilmFormer V&A Curator Keith Lodwick will explore how costume designers Adrian and Banton were central to the creation of both the character and the public image of two Golden Age stars, Dietrich and Garbo.
UK Premiere: Laws of Love (Gesetze der Liebe) + Panel Discussion
classified 18 (CTBA) S Restored & RediscoveredJoin author and activist So Mayer and guests for the UK Premiere of one of the first pro-gay documentaries in the history of cinema, painstakingly restored by the Munich Film Museum nearly a century after it was made.
Killer of Sheep + Short: The Horse
classified 15 bell hooksCharles Burnett's tender, witty and affectionate tale of a disillusioned slaughterhouse worker, and the solace to be found in the simplest moments of life.
Girl 6
classified 18 bell hooksAn unnamed, aspiring actress's quest for new work lands her in the warm, supportive embrace of a women-run phone sex agency in Spike Lee's overlooked comedy.
Queen of Diamonds + Q&A with Nina Menkes
classified 15 Restored & RediscoveredOne of the most jarringly original independent films of the 1990s, Nina Menkes’ lost underground classic re-emerges in this gorgeous new restoration.
UK Premiere: Jewel Robbery
classified 12A Pre-code HollywoodAn ode to drugs, sex, and diamonds starring veteran screen pair William Powell and Kay Francis as a gentleman thief and the posh lady who falls for him.
Queen Christina
classified U When Europe Made HollywoodOne of the era’s most sophisticated examinations of gender and identity with Garbo perfect as the bisexual Swedish monarch who was raised from birth as a boy.
Finding Christa
classified 15 bell hooksA moving, yet unsentimental, view of motherhood that challenges social biases about adoption and offers new insight into mother-daughter relationships.
The Afterlight with Charlie Shackleton
classified PG Reframing FilmThe Afterlight documents the physical presence of over three hundred actors who are no longer alive and must reconcile themselves to a life lived solely through the performances they committed to celluloid.
UK Premiere: Harold & Maude
classified 15 Restored & RediscoveredIn this much-loved cult classic, an emotional and romantic bond develops between one of cinema’s most unlikely pairs.
Bristol Black Horror Club Presents: Nightbreed at 30
classified 15 Restored & RediscoveredA hybrid fantasy/horror vision combining elements of 90s pop-culture, folk horror, and the uncanny that explores themes around redemption, identity and belonging.
Cinema Walk 1
Bristol UNESCO City of FilmJoin local film enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for the first of two different, gentle, walks that between them take in the landmarks and personalities of Cinema in Central Bristol from the 1880s to the present day.
UK Premiere: The Village Detective: a song cycle + Q&A with Bill Morrison
classified 15 Restored & RediscoveredDuring the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance...
Fury
classified PG When Europe Made HollywoodFritz Lang's first American film is a searing indictment of mob justice and lynching - and still a striking cautionary tale.
Paris Noir – African Americans in the City of Light + Q&A
classified 15 Black ParisA compelling documentary on the migration of pioneering African Americans to Paris and the ensuing cultural exchange, from Josephine Baker and beyond.
Lunchtime Talk: Notebook, a magazine by MUBI
Reframing FilmFancy diving deeper into film culture? Whether you’re a film lover or are aspiring to work in film writing/criticism, this session will give you insights into one of the world’s most distinctive international voices in film journalism: NOTEBOOK – created, prepared and published by MUBI.
Preview: One Second
classified 12A S Restored & RediscoveredA nameless fugitive escapes from a Gansu Province labour camp, desperate to see a newsreel said to promise a glimpse of his estranged daughter.
Dr Mabuse: Part 1: The Great Gambler: A Picture of the Time
classified PG Restored & RediscoveredThe first part of an epic masterpiece of conspiracy that constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia.
UK Premiere: Red-headed Woman
classified 12A PS Pre-code HollywoodJean Harlow sizzles and the dialogue crackles in this boundary-pushing comedy of sex and social-climbing.
Chameleon Street
classified 15 Restored & RediscoveredThe improbable but true story of con man Douglas Street, the titular “chameleon” who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder.
UK Premiere: Princess Tam Tam
classified 15 S Black ParisFrom the makers of French musical Zou Zou, this comedy sees a mischievous shepherd girl rising through society to become a pretend princess and the toast of Paris nightlife.
Dr Mabuse: Part 2: Inferno: A Play About People of Our Times
classified PG Restored & RediscoveredThe second part of Fritz Lang's epic masterpiece of conspiracy that constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia.
Double Indemnity
classified PG When Europe Made HollywoodBilly Wilder's sizzling, simmering tale of seduction and murder where our wise cracking hero, insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) is seduced way out of his depth by the bracelet charms, and more, of Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck).
UK Premiere: The Swordsman of All Swordsmen
classified 15 S Restored & RediscoveredA landmark work of wuxia cinema, Swordsman of all Swordsmen, newly restored by the Taiwan Film Institute tells the revenge story of Tsai Ying-chieh (Tien Peng).
Cape Fear
classified 15 Bristol UNESCO City of FilmThe gripping and tension-laden original thriller by Bristol-born J. Lee Thompson about an embittered ex-con terrorising the frightened family of the meek lawyer who put him in prison.
Paris Blues
classified 12A Black ParisSidney Poitier and Paul Newman play a pair of American ex-pat jazz musicians living la vie bohème in Paris in this intoxicating, music-filled romance.
Cinema Walk 2
Bristol UNESCO City of FilmJoin local film enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for the second of two different, gentle walks that between them take in the landmarks and personalities of Cinema in Central Bristol from the 1880s to the present day.
Chess of The Wind
classified 15 S Restored & RediscoveredScreened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema re-emerges to take its place as one of the most astonishing works of the country’s pre-revolution New Wave.
Casablanca
classified 12A When Europe Made HollywoodA timeless love story wrapped inside a gripping wartime thriller that focuses on the rekindled love experienced by American expat Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and the beautiful, married Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman).
Curzon Cinema & Arts Open Doors
Reframing FilmFall in love with the magic of the movies at one of the oldest running cinema venues in the country, Clevedon’s Curzon Cinema & Arts.
The Killers
classified PG When Europe Made HollywoodAdapted from a Hemingway short story, The Killers is essential post-war existential cinema where our doomed hero awaits his inevitable violent death.
UK Premiere: Baby Face
classified 12A Pre-code HollywoodBarbara Stanwyck climbs her way to the top of New York, one man at a time, in this bold Depression-era drama.
UK Premiere: High Noon
classified U When Europe Made HollywoodGary Cooper won an Oscar® for his role as Marshal Will Kane, forced to stand alone when an outlaw he put away returns from prison.
Burning an Illusion
classified 15 Restored & RediscoveredThe late Menelik Shabazz's pioneering first feature traces the emotional and political growth of a young black couple in Thatcher's London.
UK Premiere: Forever a Woman
classified 15 S Restored & RediscoveredKinuyo Tanaka’s third film as a director is perhaps her finest – a deeply emotional cinematic portrait of Fumiko Nakajo, an ill-fated female tanka poet.
Wind down and rediscover the movie trivia hidden in the recesses of your brain with a bumper edition of our Film Quiz celebrating 20th Century Flicks’ and Watershed’s 40th Birthday co-hosted this year by 20th Century Flicks’ Daisy Steinhardt and Watershed’s Becky Sands.