Cinema Rediscovered – the UK’s leading festival of classic cinema – returns to venues in and around Bristol: UNESCO City of Film from Wed 26 – Sun 30 July with a 50+ screenings and events combining screenings of newly restored films, rediscoveries and and a multitude of starting points for lively conversation.
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For our Recommends strand, BFI Academy Plus South-West members are offered a 50% discount for some specially selected events and screenings, featured below.
Email film.academy@watershed.co.uk for your discount code (no less than 48 hours before the screening/event of your choice).
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WIN a FREE PASS for the entire Cinema Rediscovered Programme worth £100! All you’d need to do in return is create a blog post about your experience for our website.
Email film.academy@watershed.co.uk by midday Tue 18th July, explaining in max 150 words why you’d want this opportunity, to be entered into our draw.
Opening Event Talk: Other Ways of Seeing 26 July 17:00
Hosted by Festival Founder Mark Cosgrove with guests from Sight & Sound, Invisible Women and Arike Oke (BFI’s Executive Director of Knowledge and Collections) following the screening of a special pre-recorded interview for this year’s festival with film theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London
Lunchtime Talk: Sight and Sound Magazine 27 July 12.30
Whether you’re a film lover or are aspiring to work in film writing/criticism, this session will give you insights into Sight & Sound, published by the British Film Institute (BFI), and considered by many to be one of the world’s leading international authorities in film journalism. Hear from the Sight & Sound team about the magazine’s development, their current editorial line and how they go about shaping national and international discussion about film culture.
Screening: The Virgin Suicides, Wed 26 – Thu 27 July
The breakthrough film for Sofia Coppola and a then-teenage Kirsten Dunst, The Virgin Suicides became an almost-instant cult classic courtesy of its dream-like cinematography by Ed Lachman, a chilled soundtrack from Air, and its morbid subject matter, all married to an ethereal, light aesthetic touch.
Lunchtime Talk: 100 yrs of 16mm, Fri 28 July 12:30
To explore its unique intrinsic properties, as well as the potential it opened up for independent, low-budget and amateur filmmaking, we’re hosting a discussion with filmmakers and artists who use and work with the medium.
Screening: Drylongso Fri 28 July 13:30
This rediscovered gem of American DIY filmmaking is an elegiac tribute to Black female originality.
Screening: Millenium Mambo Sat 29 July 18:35
A hazy, neon-splattered descent through modern Taipei at night-time, thrumming with techno, alcohol and ennui. Millennium Mambo stars Shu Qi as Vicky, a bar hostess losing interest in her dull, garrulous boyfriend, and attracted to the mysterious, sensual gangster Jack. Built as a flashback from the future, she finds herself afloat amidst a world of ecstatic nights out.
Screening: Morvern Callar Sun 30 July 16:10
Lynne Ramsay’s second feature marked her out as one of the major voices of 21st century cinema, a director with an eye for the effervescent and the poetic, allied to a keen perception of the alienating effects of modern-day life.
With a soundtrack that features The Velvet Underground, Krautrock pioneers Can, and Boards of Canada
