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 The Colours of Oz 

Posted on Mon 27 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

With a brilliant cast of exciting characters, a wonderful story, iconic costumes, sets and spectacular colours, The Wizard of Oz (1939) has become one of the most popular and...

Watershed is open - EVERYONE is welcome

Posted on Fri 24 June 2016

Watershed’s purpose is to promote diversity and WORLD cultures. We celebrate this diversity of cultures at home and abroad, building engagement and understanding to create a more open and collaborative city.

 Beneath The Dust in Afghanistan: interview with Pietra Brettkelly 

Posted on Fri 24 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

As Afghanistan teeters on an unpredictable future, A Flickering Truth unwraps the world of three dreamers, the dust of a hundred years of war and the restoration of 8000 hours...

Rediscover the joy of cinema at Watershed

Posted on Thu 23 June 2016

Cinema Rediscovered will once again see classic films back where they belong – in a cinema on the big screen, entertaining audiences. Discover them anew for yourself with us in July.

 A Film For All Time: A Man For All Seasons 

Posted on Tue 21 June 2016 by Ian Christie

Garlanded with awards, and built around one of the greatest of Paul Scofield's relatively few screen performances, you might assume that A Man for All Seasons was a considered a...

 The Future of Cinema is its Past 

Posted on Mon 20 June 2016 by Mark Cosgrove

What is the future for the cinema? And what future for films, being shown in the cinema to appreciative audiences? Introducing Cinema Rediscovered...

 Room at the Top: Angry Young Men in the British New Wave 

Posted on Thu 16 June 2016 by Tara Judah

Adapted from John Braine’s novel of the same name, Room at the Top is the story of one man’s disillusionment with class and society in post-war Britain.

 Cinema by Candlelight: Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon 

Posted on Tue 14 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

Stanley Kubrick is famed for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and A Clockwork Orange (1971). Rarely is his...

 Unusual Choices in Nagisa Ôshima's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence 

Posted on Sat 11 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

A Japanese film starring David Bowie as a prisoner of war might at first sound like an odd idea, but the lesser known Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983) was, and still is,...

 Cinema Rediscovered - Great Films Back on Big Screens 

Posted on Thu 9 June 2016

Cinema Rediscovered is here! Here's an overview of the inaugural festival to see what's in store this year...

 Celebrating the Cinematography of Douglas Slocombe 

Posted on Thu 9 June 2016 by James Harrison

To say that cinematographer Douglas Slocombe (1913 -2016) had a varied film career would be a huge understatement. Even from early on in his career Slocombe’s adventures behind...