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
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Movie Meetup — Marty Supreme — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:30
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GBWe're going to see Marty Supreme, the new Josh Safdie film staring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Odessa A'zion.
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
Marty Supreme is a thrilling visual onslaught, a rattling cacophony of ideas and images so intense that for two and a half hours you barely have time to catch your breath. It’s utterly exhausting and I loved every jangling second.
★★★★★ Wendy Ide, The Observer
"Timothée Chalamet electrifies"
★★★★★ Danny Leigh, Financial Times
"It is unlike anything released this year, a riveting study of a man who fully believes it when he says, 'I have a purpose. You don’t. And if you think that’s some kind of blessing, it’s not.'"
★★★★★ Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert .com
"For its entire two and a half hours – which whips past in what feels like mere minutes – Safdie’s film had me vibrating like a tuning fork. It’s a joyous salute to life’s beautiful cacophony."
★★★★★ Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
"Marty Supreme is a stunning achievement, a breathless yet precisely controlled joyride full of vivid characters, hairpin turns and did-that-just-happen moments – and a modernist fairy tale about big ambitions colliding with grubby street-level realities and capitalism’s seedy imperatives. This is a film that’s built to last."
★★★★★ Phil de Semlyen, Time Out14 attendees
(Sunday) Movie Meetup — Breathless — Meet from 1 pm, film at 2 pm
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB‘We barged into cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis the Fifteenth.’
— Jean-Luc Godard, Cahiers du Cinéma 138.
We're going to see Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 debut Breathless—the second in a short season exploring the start of the French New Wave.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/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
"Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature was this iconoclastic crime film, which almost singlehandedly changed the face of French cinema and went on to inspire countless New Waves around the world.
"A laid-back homage to Godard's beloved Hollywood B-movies of the 1940s, this simple story of an American student's (Jean Seberg) relationship with a charismatic young hoodlum (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is steeped in naturalistic and innovative touches, from pop-culture references and Seberg's androgynous haircut to the then revolutionary adoption of jump-cut editing."
— Watershed summary
"There is simply no other film which demonstrates so perfectly what it feels like to be young and in love."
★★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"Godard brought to the screen the jagged, intuitive temperament of youth in a way that nobody else had ever done before."
★★★★★ Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"The thin, conventional storyline is swept along by the imaginative, urgent style with its then innovative jump cuts, overlapping dialogue and handheld camerawork. A landmark film, it forever changed perceptions of cinema."
★★★★★ George Perry, BBC
"What shapes Breathless as such an influential and long lasting ‘classic’ of French cinema is Godard’s ferocious delivery of simplistic subject matter, his direction of iconic actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and his all-out gallantry in creating the first of many films that broke all the rules, both in his homeland and overseas."
★★★★★ Laura J. Smith, CineVue6 attendees
Past events
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