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The World of Friese-Greene

part of Bristol UNESCO City of Film

The World of Friese-Greene

Café & Bar, Watershed

Look out for a selection of archive shorts curated by South West Silents’ James Harrison as part of Opening Up the Magic Box which marks the centenary of the death of Bristol-born Victorian cinema innovator William Friese-Greene.

Wed 28 July

Online booking no longer available for The World of Friese-Greene at 16:00, Wed 28 July (ends 17:22)

Thu 29 July

Online booking no longer available for The World of Friese-Greene at 16:00, Thu 29 July (ends 17:22)

Fri 30 July

Online booking no longer available for The World of Friese-Greene at 16:00, Fri 30 July (ends 17:22)

Sat 31 July

Online booking no longer available for The World of Friese-Greene at 16:00, Sat 31 July (ends 17:22) Online booking no longer available for The World of Friese-Greene at 16:00, Sat 31 July (ends 17:22)

Sun 1 Aug

Online booking no longer available for The World of Friese-Greene at 16:00, Sun 1 Aug (ends 17:22)

Philip French Memorial Lecture: Pamela Hutchinson

part of Reframing Film

Phillip French  Memorial Lecture: Pamela Hutchinson

Cinema 1

Author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson will explore the role of film critics in rethinking and reframing film heritage and the importance of looking back to understand and explore what’s happening in film culture right now.

Wed 28 July

This talk will have full British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation.

In The Mood For Love  (Subtitled)

part of Restored & Rediscovered

In The Mood For Love

Cinema 1

At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments.

Wed 28 July

With an introduction by Watershed's Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove. After its preview screening on the opening night of Cinema Rediscovered, In The Mood For Love screens at Watershed from 18 - 22 Aug as part of Watershed's August Wong Kar Wai season and at Curzon Cinema & Arts in Clevedon on Sun 1 Aug.

ONLINE: Reframing Film

part of Reframing Film

ONLINE: Reframing Film

Online

Some of the most distinctive voices in film curation and archiving come together to explore the potential of reframing film heritage.

Thu 29 July

Fri 30 July

For more information and to book a place on these events (which are all free and online), visit the Film Hub South West page.

Jazz on a Summer's Day 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Cinema 1

One of the earliest music documentaries, photographer Bert Stern’s film captures an all-star line-up of performers from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, periodically cutting away to the stylish Rhode Island community.

Thu 29 July

With an introduction by writer/curator Karen Alexander.

ONLINE: Ricky Riccardi on Louis Armstrong

part of Reframing Film

ONLINE: Ricky Riccardi on Louis Armstrong

YouTube

To mark the 50th anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s passing in July 1971, Bristol Blues & Jazz Film Festival present a special event to celebrate his legacy and onscreen presence from the late ‘50s to the late 60s.

Thu 29 July

This is a pre-recorded event that will screen live on Watershed's YouTube channel

The Last Picture Show 

part of 1971

The Last Picture Show

Cinema 1

Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville, this elegy to cinema itself shot in highly evocative black and white focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens.

Thu 29 July

With an introduction by author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson. The Last Picture Show will also screen at Curzon Cinema & Arts in Clevedon on Sun 8 Aug.

Klute 

part of 1971

Klute

Cinema 1

Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula, Klute  saw Jane Fonda bring counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the centre of a missing-person investigation.

Thu 29 July

With an introduction from Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove.

Beau Travail  (Subtitled)

part of Restored & Rediscovered

Beau Travail

Cinema 1

Sparse dialogue, rugged landscapes, masculine spectacles and disco dancing - Claire Denis loosely adapts and updates Herman Melville’s Billy Budd to take place in a French Foreign Legion outpost in East Africa.

Fri 30 July

This screening will be introduced by Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove (Watershed/Cinema Rediscovered) and followed by a pre-recorded interview with Cinematographer Agnès Godard.

ONLINE: Collecting Now

part of Reframing Film

ONLINE: Collecting Now

Zoom

Discover how film and media archives are collecting history as it happens. We talk to the BFI National Archive about collecting online video content, television, and their explorations into preserving VR.

Fri 30 July

Rewriting Film History (With The Women in it)

part of Reframing Film

ONLINE: Rewriting Film History (With The Women in it)

Cinema 2

What might an alternative history of cinema, one with the women in it, really look like? Archive activists Invisible Women speak to writers Helen O’Hara, Simran Hans and Pamela Hutchinson about reimagining female centric film criticism.

Fri 30 July

Please note this event is a live discussion on Zoom that will be streamed into the cinema.

ONLINE: Rewriting Film History (With The Women in it)

part of Reframing Film

ONLINE: Rewriting Film History (With The Women in it)

Online

What might an alternative history of cinema, one with the women in it, really look like? Archive activists Invisible Women speak to writers Helen O’Hara, Simran Hans and Pamela Hutchinson about reimagining female centric film criticism in this Zoom discussion.

Fri 30 July

McCabe & Mrs Miller 

part of 1971

McCabe & Mrs Miller

Cinema 1

With its fascinating morally ambiguous characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, Robert Altman’s anti-western McCabe and Mrs Miller brilliantly reframed the entrenched values of the Western genre.

Fri 30 July

With a pre-recorded introduction by Amos Levin (Video Editor and Programmer)

Yaphet Kotto Homage: Blue Collar 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

Blue Collar

20th Century Flicks (about 9 min walk from Watershed)

Film programmer, writer, critic and broadcaster Adam Murray pays homage to actor Yaphet Kotto with a special showing of Blue Collar (1978), an uncompromising tale of three-working men starring Kotto as Smokey James alongside double trouble Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel.

Fri 30 July

Introduced by film programmer, writer, critic and broadcaster Adam Murray, (Bristol Black Horror Club, Come The Revolution, Cables & Cameras).

Two-Lane Blacktop 

part of 1971

Two-Lane Blacktop

Cinema 1

Shot in gorgeous atmospheric widescreen, this is one of the most un-Hollywood films ever made by Hollywood. Directed by maverick director Monte Hellman (who recently passed away), it remains a timeless, existential portrait of lives in transit and of a country questioning its identity.

Fri 30 July

With an introduction from Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove.

Bristol Black Horror Club: The Beast Must Die 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

Bristol Black Horror Film Club: The Beast Must Die

20th Century Flicks (about 9 min walk from Watershed)

Join Bristol Black Horror Club for their launch event, a rare screening of the late Paul Annett’s 1974 feature-directorial debut for The Beast Must Die, a camp action-horror-hybrid with a twist of country-house-whodunit and Blaxploitation cool.

Fri 30 July

Introduced by film programmer, writer, critic and broadcaster Adam Murray, (Bristol Black Horror Club, Come The Revolution, Cables & Cameras).

Cinema Walk

part of Bristol UNESCO City of Film

Cinema Walk

Across Bristol

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.

Sat 31 July

UK Premiere: The More the Merrier 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

The More the Merrier

Cinema 1

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.

Sat 31 July

With an introduction by author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson.

Black Paris

part of Reframing Film

Black Paris

Cinema 3

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.

Sat 31 July

ONLINE: Film TikTok

part of Reframing Film

ONLINE: Film TikTok

Zoom

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.

Sat 31 July

Portrait of the Animator as a Young Man 

part of Reframing Film

Nick Park: The Early Years

Cinema 1

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.

Sat 31 July

UK Premiere: The Story of a Three-Day Pass 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

UK Premiere: The Story of a Three-Day Pass

Cinema 1 and Cinema 3

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.

Sat 31 July

This screening will be introduced by Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator and Karen Alexander, independent film and moving image curator, writer and researcher.

Please note, this screening will take place in both Cinema 1 and Cinema 3 at the same time and the introduction in Cinema 1 will be a streamed live into Cinema 3.

Cancelled: Film Noir UK Launch: The Maltese Falcon 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

Film Noir UK Launch: The Maltese Falcon

Arnolfini

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.

Sat 31 July

With an introduction by Co-director of Film Noir UK James Harrison. Launched in 2021 by South West Silents, Film Noir UK is the first dedicated film organisation in the UK celebrating the ever-influential world of Film Noir.

Five Easy Pieces 

part of 1971

Five Easy Pieces

Cinema 1

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.

Sat 31 July

With a pre-recorded introduction by Gaylene Gould (The Space To Come Creative Director, broadcaster and writer).

Cancelled: The Magic Box 

part of Bristol UNESCO City of Film

The Magic Box

Arnolfini

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.

Sun 1 Aug

With an pre-recorded introduction by film director and historian Peter Domankiewicz.

Peter Domankiewicz and Christopher Frayling: Who was William Friese-Greene?

part of Bristol UNESCO City of Film

Peter Domankiewicz and Christopher Frayling: Who was William Friese-Greene?

Online

As we mark the centenary of his death, Peter Domankiewicz and Sir Christopher Frayling reassess the place of William Friese-Greene – Bristol-born photographer, inventor and pioneer of cinematography – in cinema history.

Sun 1 Aug

UK Premiere: No Place Like Home 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

UK Premiere: No Place Like Home

Cinema 1

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.

Sun 1 Aug

This screening is presented by Twelve30 Collective and followed by a discussion with Perry’s daughter Justine Henzell (streamed in) hosted by co-curators Jonathan Ali and Lisa Harewood.

The Open Road (with Live Music)  (Subtitled)

part of Bristol UNESCO City of Film

The Open Road (with Live Music)

Cinema 3

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.

Sun 1 Aug

With an introduction by BFI National Archive silent film curator Bryony Dixon and live music by Neil Brand, a silent film accompanist.

UK Premiere: A Man Called Adam 

part of Restored & Rediscovered

A Man Called Adam

Cinema 1

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.

Sun 1 Aug

With an introduction by writer/curator Karen Alexander.

ONLINE: Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz

part of Reframing Film

The Murder of Mr Devil

Online

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

Sun 1 Aug

Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz

part of Reframing Film

Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz

Café & Bar, Watershed

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

Sun 1 Aug