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 — Die My Love — 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 Lynne Ramsay's new film Die My Love, staring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson and Sissy Spacek.
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
"From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and postpartum psychosis."
— Watershed summary"... Die My Love is a different, snarling animal, that finds Ramsay and Lawrence in ferociously maximalist sync, conspiring without compromise on making us feel like a character who, above all, above anything, does not want to feel this way"
— Jessica Kiang, BFI Sight & Sound"... the cinema of Lynne Ramsay is cinema of the senses, raw and delicate and alive... Jennifer Lawrence completely understands this ... She’s never been better, vulnerable and terrible and totally unpredictable"
— Hannah Strong, Little White Lies"It’s a deeply raw and honest film. It’s bleak, but it also has a musical, black-comic, big-hearted spirit that pulls you through the despair."
— Dave Calhoun, Time Out4 attendees
Theatre Meetup — The River by Jez Butterworth — Limited tickets. Book Early.
Alma Tavern, 18 Alma Vale Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2HY, GB"Neither from nor towards, at the still point, there the dance is."
We're going to see Jez Butterworth's 2012 play, The River,
We'll meet in the Alma Tavern from 7 pm to say hello and chat. Afterwards, we will get back together to talk about the play.
Check comments below for more details of exactly where to meet.Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
** Tickets are limited. Book early to avoid disappointment. **ABOUT THE PLAY
On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she’s not the only woman he has brought here – or indeed the last.
Directed by Janine Wunsche.
Starring Claire Bowman, Ciaran Corsar, Susie Kimnell & Ren Sinclair" ... this disconcerting, puzzling and often unsettling play, a play which stays with you after the curtain comes down, teasing away at both brain and emotions."
Peter Lathan (2018)"... an endlessly open, constantly shifting piece of theatre."
Michael Delgado (2016)"... the moments of stillness, poetical soliloquising and ethereal descriptions, cast a spell of lyrical beauty over the play which is difficult to ignore and entirely captivating."
Stuart King (2024)Jez Butterworth is a leading UK playwright whose writing blends myth, folklore, and realism. He is best known for the multi-award-winning Jerusalem, which is often cited on lists of the best plays of all time.
Janine Wunsche has worked extensively in the UK and internationally. Most recently, she directed London productions of ‘Twelfth Night’, ‘True West’, and ‘A View From The Bridge’.
8 attendees
National Theatre Live — The Fifth Step — Meet from 6:00, starts at 7:00
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB" ... David Ireland’s slippery comedy about alcoholism, faith and masculinity ..."
★★★★ Nick Curtis, The Evening StandardWe're going to see the National Theatre Live performance of The Fifth Step, the new play by David Ireland, staring Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 6 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film, we will stop for a while to share thoughts and reactions.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE PLAY
"Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
"After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luka approaches step five – the moment of confession – dangerous truths emerge, threatening the trust on which both of their recoveries depend."
— Watershed Summary"Lowden is staggeringly good as a young loner, Luka, all jitters and tics and swear words, who is trying to pull himself out of an alcoholic spiral."
★★★★ Clive Davis, The Times"... Martin Freeman, brings both supreme comic timing... and a terrifying burden of suppressed anger to the role."
★★★★ Sarah Crompton, What's On Stage9 attendees
Movie Meetup — Sirât — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:40
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB“Is this what the end of the world feels like?”
We're going to see Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Jury Prize winner, Sirât.
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.
** Part of the French Film Festival on Tour 2025, there is only one screening and it will almost certainly sell out. **
ABOUT THE FILM
"One of the most mesmerising films of the year, Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Jury Prize winner Sirât draws inspiration from the Sirāt Bridge, which in Islamic tradition separates hell from heaven where the soul is confronted with its true nature.
"Luis (Sergi López), a committed father who embarks on a journey with his son to search for his eldest daughter, Marina, after she disappears at a rave deep in the mountains of Morocco. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again."
— Watershed Summary"A fever dream in the bleakest sense, Sirat is a wild and apocalyptic epic, mythological in scale but intimate in its story about family."
— Graeme Guttmann, Screen Rant"An unforgettable portrait of the search for unity at the edge, and end, of the world."
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast"Sirât is a truly staggering and major film, one that has to be seen to be believed – a masterful gambit of affectionate character and community building that mutates into a work that deals with the primal instincts of human survival and the idea that we create our own gods through the things that we chose to worship."
— David Jenkins, Little White Lies3 attendees
Past events
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