Cinema Rediscovered 2023
Wed 26 - Sun 30 July 2023
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Cinema Rediscovered – the UK’s leading festival of classic cinema and film restorations – returns to venues in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film for its 7th annual edition featuring big screen experiences of brand-new film restorations, rediscoveries and film on film rarities from around the world, alongside a multitude of starting points for lively conversation. You can expect a friendly space for all to share passions and enthusiasms for film.
Screening at cinemas including 20th Century Flicks, Clevedon’s Curzon Cinema & Arts, Watershed, and new this year, Bristol Aquarium, which holds the former IMAX cinema, plus pop-ups in the crypt of St John on the Wall and The Galleries Car Park.The festival will launch a UK wide tour of highlights (Aug – Oct 2023), and an online offer via MUBI, the global streaming service, production company and film distributor.
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Cinema Rediscovered is a Watershed production. Its principal funders and sponsors are BFI Audience Projects Fund, awarding National Lottery funding, MUBI and Park Circus.
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Bristol UNESCO City Of Film
In this strand explore local connections to celebrate Bristol’s status as UNESCO City of Film, a global recognition of the city's outstanding contribution to film culture.
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Down & Dirty: American D.I.Y. Restored
This strand of restorations explores the impact of this oppositional ethos and lo-fi aesthetic on a new generation of American filmmakers in the following decades, with a selection of films which explored controversial subjects, countered mainstream representations and offered other, more radical ways of seeing gender, sexuality and race on screen.
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Look Who’s Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist
This strand invites audiences to re-think the contribution of Hollywood’s blacklistees to American cinema in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Reframing Film
Explore alternative ways of connecting older films with a new wave of cinema goers & get inspired to broaden repertory cinema beyond the mainstream.
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Restored & Rediscovered
Experience some of the latest new restorations and rediscoveries on the big screen.
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