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- (Monday) Movie Meetup — The Other Way Around — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:40Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, Bristol, BS1 5TX
What if we held a party to celebrate our break-up? ...
We're going to see Jonás Trueba's playful comedy The Other Way Around.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film, we will stop for a while to share thoughts and reactions.
This is the 8:40 screening on Monday 14th July. Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
"After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their break-up - like a wedding but the other way around."
— Watershed summary"... a witty uncoupling comedy, a meta breakup movie for grownups"
— Cath Clarke, The Guardian"The Other Way Around is a refreshingly grown-up entry to a genre that seems to have got sillier and blander in recent years: in posing substantive questions about the nature of romance and relationships, it’s smarter than virtually any American studio romantic comedy of recent years.
"Like The Worst Person in The World, The Other Way Around is an important reminder that there is a better way. Audiences should like it. Filmmakers should watch it."
— Adam Solomons, IndieWire"In The Other Way Around, life informs film, and vice versa. Cinema, memories and possibilities are forever multiplied and entangled ...
"The humour of The Other Way Around comes less from slapstick than from subtle deadpan observation, in this case based on the ludicrous belief that if you repeat something long enough, it ends up becoming the truth."
— Mar Diestro-Dópido, BFI Sight & Sound - (Sunday) Movie Meetup — Barry Lyndon — Meet from 3 pm, Film at 4 pmMeet in the café / bar, Watershed, Bristol, BS1 5TX
We are going to see Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, Barry Lyndon.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 3 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film we will stop for a while to talk about the film.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
"To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release, we're bringing Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece back to the big screen in this new 4K restoration.
"A period film like no other, it follows the adventures and misfortunes of Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) where he meets his share of women, takes part in the Seven Years' War, gets recruited as a spy, enjoys the gambling clubs of Europe and marries into the English aristocracy, inventing new stories about himself at every turn of the road."
— Watershed introduction"One of the most beautiful of all Stanley Kubrick’s films, this slyly savage tale of social climbing in the 18th century is also arguably his funniest. Ryan O’Neal stars as Irish rogue and ne’er-do-well Redmond Barry who, after defeating a love rival in a duel and ignominiously deserting the army, reinvents himself as British aristocrat Barry Lyndon. As leisurely as it is painterly, this is a masterclass in cinematography – famously, Kubrick used nothing but natural light in all but a few scenes. Don’t miss the chance to watch it in a cinema."
★★★★★ Wendy Ide, The Observer"Barry Lyndon is best known for its photography – Kubrick borrowed a low-light camera from Nasa so he could shoot in candlelight – and it is uniquely, heart-stoppingly gorgeous. But there’s much more to it: this is a story of identity, and the lack of it. And it’s fascinating."
★★★★★ Tom Huddleston, Time Out"Barry Lyndon is an intimate epic of utter lucidity and command."
★★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian"Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, received indifferently in 1975, has grown in stature in the years since and is now widely regarded as one of the master’s best. It is certainly in every frame a Kubrick film: technically awesome, emotionally distant, remorseless in its doubt of human goodness."
★★★★★ Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com - (Thursday) Movie Meetup — Amadeus — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:30Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, Bristol, BS1 5TX
“A brilliant, humanistic portrait of jealousy, guilt, and in the end, a kind of redemption.”
— The GuardianWe're going to see the UK premiere of the new restoration of Miloš Forman's Amadeus.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film, we will stop for a while to share thoughts and reactions.
This is part of the Cinema Rediscovered Festival. There is only one screening, so it may sell out. Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
"Gloriously restored in 4K, Miloš Forman’s triumphant drama examines the rivalry between classical masters Salieri and Mozart through a uniquely inquisitive lens.
"Gleefully taking liberties with historical fact, Forman’s opulent and arresting 18th-century epic is a biopic like no other. In recounting the stand-off between the bitter, ageing Salieri (an Oscar®-winning F. Murray Abraham, whose unforgettable performance frames the narrative) and the youthful, impetuous and precociously talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), Forman fashions a memorable ode to creative inspiration, jealousy and the power of the concert hall.
"Forman collaborates with his regular cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček, opening our eyes to a lushly imagined iteration of period Vienna that is marked with equal parts beauty and madness. Amadeus was the toast of the 1984 Oscar season, winning eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Forman.
"Now, the film’s original theatrical cut resonates like never before in its new 4K restoration approved by Warner Bros. Replete with a new, lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix, it further sharpens and hones the cinematic presentation of Vienna as the paragon of classical performance and the hotbed of professional enmity."
— Watershed summary
