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 (2)
See all- Movie Meetup Choice — Friendship /or/ Harvest — Meet from 7:15 pmMeet in the café / bar, Watershed, Bristol, BS1 5TX
A choice of two new movies starting this week:
- Andrew DeYoung's Friendship
- Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest
Choose which movie you want to see and buy your own ticket from the box office or online (links below).
We'll meet up in the Watershed café/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat and later we'll split to see the two films.
The films end at roughly the same time, so afterwards we can stop to compare and share our thoughts and reactions.
ABOUT FRIENDSHIP (8:10 pm, ticket)
"Friendship is Andrew DeYoung's painfully hilarious testament to why men shouldn't have friends starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd."
— Watershed Summary"Craig Waterman works an average white-collar office job and spends his free time watching television in his suburban home. When his wife encourages him to befriend their new neighbour Austin, his life changes. Austin is friendly, open, and effortlessly cool. A friendship forms, but Craig's keenness soon threatens to ruin everything.
"This deliciously surrealist humour spin on the male loneliness epidemic is packed full of laughs yet operates with the emotional tension of a thriller. Robinson's performance is simultaneously hilarious and sympathetic, capturing the very real anxieties and vulnerabilities of forming connections. Friendship is a big treat for fans of Robinson's brilliant cult hit television show I Think You Should Leave, but also the perfect entry point for those new to the world of this absurdist comedy genius."
— BFI SummaryABOUT HARVEST (8:20 pm, ticket)
"Harvest portrays a village whose traditional way of life is disrupted at a moment of severe economic turmoil. Tsangari brilliantly captures the villagers’ lives and their dedication to the land, and the way the community turns against new arrivals when a series of events befall them. A terrific Caleb Landry Jones leads an impressive cast in this study of modernity and superstition in a time of uncertainty."
— Isabel Moir, BFI Summary"Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected story about the trauma of modernity and the looming threat of the outsider.
"Set over seven hallucinatory days in an idyllic rural Scottish village, the traditional way of life for its agrarian community is suddenly disrupted when a series of unexpected invaders from the outside world bring about irrevocable – and potentially damaging – change."
— Watershed Summary - (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
