What we’re about
We go and see the best and most interesting films around.
We usually meet for a while before the film to eat or drink, chat about what's been happening, and to discuss the films we've already seen.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Movie Meetup -- Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry -- Meet from 7:30, Movie at 8:40Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, Bristol, BS1 5TX
"It’s a film which tells us what most films contrive to ignore: love and sex is not just for the lovely and the sexy and the young. This is a gentle, sensual gem of a film."
★★★★ The GuardianWe are going to see Elene Naveriani's new film, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:30 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film we will stop for a few minutes to share our first thoughts and reactions.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
"Etero lives in a small village in Georgia and runs a tiny shop. She's never wanted a husband and cherishes her freedom as much as the mille-feuille cakes she buys next to the bus interchange.
But her choice to live alone is the cause of much gossip among her fellow villagers. Unexpectedly, she finds herself passionately falling for a man, and is suddenly faced with the decision to pursue a relationship or continue a life of independence"-- Watershed Summary
"Chavleishvili is terrific, delivering a performance that carries the picture and sets its tone. Her Etero displays a combination of severity and sensuality that should be incongruous but works beautifully. And the character is mirrored by the film’s Kaurismäkiesque colour palette, which seems gloomy at first glance but is revealed to be rich, full-blooded and strikingly handsome."
-- Wendy Ide, The Observer
"Naveriani and her writer, Nikoloz Mdivani, have crafted a warm, witty and wise film ... Chavleishvili is a marvel as the generally fearless heroine. The cinematographer Agnesh Pakozdi finds fun and heat in midlife passion"
-- Tara Brady, The Irish Times
- Movie Extra -- La Chimera -- Meet from 5:00 , Movie at 5:40Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, Bristol, BS1 5TX
... Alice Rohrwacher’s divine exploration of time, history and memory.
This is a second chance to see Alice Rohrwacher's wonderous new film, La Chimera.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 5 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film we will stop for a while to share our reactions.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
"Josh O’Connor plays a melancholic grave-robber who makes a living looting artefacts from ancient Tuscan burial sites in Alice Rohrwacher’s bewitching new feature.
"No description of what happens in La Chimera can adequately convey what happens in La Chimera, .. [it] feels like watching an occurrence of ancient magic, from the point of view of the spell"-- Jessica Kiang, BFI Sight & Sound
"I was utterly captivated by this sad, lovelorn adventure"
-- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"O’Connor’s exquisite performance seems to channel Harry Dean Stanton’s haunted turn in Paris, Texas; less wraith-like in its physicality, but similarly intangible, like a man being played by his own shadow"
-- David Ehrich, IndieWire
"[Rohrwacher] offers all her earthly and otherworldly preoccupations in scattered, bejewelled fragments, for us to gather and assemble and interpret — and doesn’t much mind if some pieces stay buried"
-- Guy Lodge, Variety
- Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel - Meet from 18:15, Doors at 19:00, Play at 19:30Tobacco Factory, Southville
"The legendary solo performer Tim Crouch comes not to praise the business of theatre, but perhaps to bury it."
★★★★★ Joyce McMillan, The ScotsmanThis is a theatre meetup, proving we do them too! Come along to watch Tim Crouch's latest piece of experimental theatrical fun in Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel.
We'll meet in the Tobacco Factory cafe/bar from 18:45, to say hello and chat. After the performance we will stop for a few minutes to share our reactions.
ABOUT THE PLAY
On the back wall there is a notice saying: “Please rinse and sanitise.” Over to the right a poster from Equity, the union for performers and creative practitioners, talks about creating safe spaces. It includes the number for a harassment helpline. There is no decor and the house lights are up. “It’s just this,” says Tim Crouch on his empty stage. “It’s just us.” Or just us and the virtual reality headset the writer and actor insists on wearing. The gizmo is his portal to another theatre, one grander and more ornate than our own, where a production of King Lear is at its midway point.
-- Mark Fisher, The GuardianNothing is hidden, including Crouch’s genius for writing and performing challenging yet engaging theatre that plays with form while asking — as he does here, with eloquent, despairing wit — deep, often provocative questions about the purpose of art and its place in contemporary society.
-- Donald Hutera, The TimesTruth’s a Dog Must to Kennel is a worryingly prescient piece. It is an exquisite creation that apparently denies the very point of creativity, a hymn to humanity that insists that humanity has had it. To call it ‘thought-provoking’ would be a criminal understatement.
-- Hugh Simpson, All Edinburgh TheatreBuy your own ticket from the box office or online.