About us
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
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Movie Meetup — Bouchra — Meet from 7:15 pm, film at 8:20
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB"... animation as a protective veil and real voices bringing intimacy ..."
We're going to see Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s debut feature, Bouchra.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, we will stop for a few minutes to talk about the film.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
"An animated New York populated by anthropomorphic animals is the backdrop for directors Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s tale of a queer filmmaker channelling her complicated relationship with her Moroccan mother into art."
— Blake Simons, BFI Sight & Sound"With these two choices, animating a biography and voicing it with the real people, Bouchra finds a delicate balance between distance and vulnerability, shielding its subjects from the rawness of reenactment while preserving the emotional texture of their lives."
★★★★ Murtada Elfadl, Variety"The sheer intimacy with which everything in the film is presented, even with the relative remove of anthropomorphizing all the characters, is what makes it sing; the unrealness emphasizes the real narratives and emotions behind those digital facades."
★★★★ Juan Barquin, Roger Ebert .com"Far from reiterating binaries – tradition versus modernity, elders versus youngsters – the film embraces the beauty of contradictions ... Even when the possibility of reconciliation appears out of reach, it is the effort to communicate that brings peace."
★★★★ Phuong Le, The Guardian"The smallest gestures, awkward pauses and hesitant phone calls, all give the film a naturalism and intimacy that allow it to speak beyond autobiography while never losing sight its specificity."
★★★★ Marina Ashioti, Little White Lies8 attendees
Tarkovsky season: Mirror — Meet from 1 pm, film at 2 pm
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GBThroughout August, Watershed is showing a season of films by Andrei Tarkovsky.
We'll see each film on Sunday afternoon.This Sunday, we're going to see Tarkovsky's 1975 film, Mirror.
We'll meet in the Watershed café/bar from 1 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, there will be time to stop and talk about the film.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
"... a mesmerising composition of a dying man’s dreams and recollections ..."
"Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before WWII for this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem. For perhaps his most daring experimentation with film structure, Andrei Tarkovsky intersperses scenes from three eras – a childhood in the countryside, the Great War, and post-war maturity – to create a prismatic reflection of his own life and those of his parents.
"Abandoning linear narrative in favour of dramatising discontinuous shards of memory Tarkovsky pioneered a poetic and richly allusive form. Wartime newsreel footage, self-consciously painterly compositions, indelible imagery (a field whipped suddenly by wind, a gas lantern flickering out), and the director’s mesmeric camera movements combine to create a work of cumulative, rhythmic effect."
— Barbara Schweizerhof, BFI Sight & Sound"Truly original and unique: genuine film poetry, full of spellbinding images and sequences."
★★★★★ Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune"Tarkovsky’s purest and most private achievement"
★★★★★ Anthony Lane, The New Yorker"Cinema rarely gets this close to poetry ..."
★★★★ Jonathan Crocker, BBC"... transcendentally brilliant ..."
★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian2 attendees
Past events
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