Watershed Podcast
208 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago -Watershed staff, and guests give their take on some of the upcoming Watershed highlights – including films, festivals, events and cross-artform developments and debates.
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Watershed Cinema Podcast April 2024
April 04, 2024 09:56 - 52 minutes - 120 MBNew York! New York! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms chat to Ella McDonald from Film Hub South West about the Short Film Fund and Andrew Kelly from Bristol Ideas about new season NYC On Film.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
Watershed Cinema Podcast March 2024
March 14, 2024 14:13 - 48 minutes - 82 MBKenough is kenough! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms chat the Oscars®, in-cinema seances and falling off one's chair.
Watershed Cinema Podcast February 2024
February 01, 2024 13:48 - 56 minutes - 90.9 MBThat's the power of cinema! In this episode Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms discuss The Iron Claw, Pirates 4D and the gays upon the heath.
Watershed Cinema Podcast January 2024
December 28, 2023 13:21 - 57 minutes - 95.9 MBIn this episode Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms are joined by Bristol-based film critic Nathan Hardie to talk highlights of the New Year.P.S.: Some film release dates have changed since the podcast was recorded. Head to the website for the latest updates.
Cinema Podcast December 2023
December 04, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes - 105 MBIn this episode Stef and Steph are joined by Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove to discuss their top for (or five) films of 2023.
Watershed Cinema Podcast November 2023
October 26, 2023 15:57 - 35 minutes - 42.4 MBIn this episode Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph talk about vocal fry, an exciting Q&As Joanna Hogg and trying to record a podcast despite a helicopter flying overhead!
Watershed Cinema Podcast October 2023
September 26, 2023 16:41 - 58 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph figure out if there's a phone better than a BlackBerry, their top picks for London Film Festival, and talk to Andrew Kelly from Bristol Ideas about a new season centred on Berlin.
Watershed Cinema Podcast September 2023
August 21, 2023 17:26 - 34 minutes - 32 MBIn this episode of Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph talk about what's coming up in September including Jurassic Park back in 3D, a new season inspired by the 4K restoration of Stop Making Sense, and making sense of Barbenheimer.Get your Not As Good As Jurassic Park t-shirt here.
Cinema Podcast Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Special
July 13, 2023 12:29 - 45 minutes - 46.6 MBIn this special episode, Mark and Steph are joined by Stef Graham from Watershed's Comms Team and film writer Sean Wilson to discuss this year's Cinema Rediscovered.Together they discuss what they're most looking forward to watching, the changing significance of soundtrack in a film and putting the world to rights when it comes to promotional film stills!This episode is recorded and produced by Bernie Hodges.
June and July 2023 Cinema Podcast
June 21, 2023 16:19 - 34 minutes - 43.7 MBSteph Read talks to Stef Graham from the Comms Team at Watershed and Queer Vision's Jason Barker about what's coming up during this summer including Cinema Rediscovered, Queer Vision Film Festival and Barbie.
May 2023 Cinema Podcast
April 28, 2023 17:46 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read share their enthusiasm and thoughts for just a small selection of the films coming up this month at Watershed.There's searching for identity in Return to Seoul – a striking film for its incredible lead performance, for its subject of place and belonging and for its beautiful cinematic style. Influenced by this Steph talks about the season of Sunday films she has curated throughout May. All are intriguing tales of identity formed rather than found, rathe...
April 2023 Cinema Podcast
March 31, 2023 14:31 - 29 minutes - 54.4 MBMark Cosgrove (Cinema Curator) and Steph Read (Cinema Assistant) look ahead to a host of cinematic wonders from the old to the new. But what does cinematic even mean and why might some of the films showing in April be given that label? Find out more as they discuss the upcoming Pacification, 3 Colours Trilogy, Godland and a season of related films exploring individual's struggles with their inner spirituality.
March 2023 Cinema Podcast
February 27, 2023 16:55 - 56 minutes - 18.6 MBWatershed's Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read find plenty of films to think about in March – new films from Chile, the Oscar season ahead and the first ever Oscar nominated film from Bhutan.
February 2023 Cinema Podcast
February 01, 2023 18:03 - 47 minutes - 34.1 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Steph Read (Cinema Programme Assistant) are joined by Dr Reina Dennison, Professor of Film and Digital Arts and University of Bristol, and Harriet Taylor who runs SWITCH: an organisation bringing inclusive cinema to the big screen, with a focus on the trans/non-binary experience.They look forward to the month ahead at Watershed and discuss the upcoming Japan Foundation Touring Programme and Harriet's season of films Reflections and Refra...
January 2023 Cinema Podcast
December 19, 2022 14:39 - 27 minutes - 17.7 MBMark Cosgrove and Steph Read share thoughts on a range of different types of cinema coming to Watershed in January - from celebrations of film to art activism.First up is mind-bending Cornish folk horror tale Enys Men which traverses isolation, memories, dreams, and fears – gorgeously shot on grainy 16mm film. Inspired by this Mark and Steph discuss their season of films A Woman on the Verge, wich locates Enys Men in a rich cinematic line of emotional journeys leading to transformation, redem...
December 2022 Cinema Podcast
November 28, 2022 13:50 - 56 minutes - 43.2 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by colleagues to share their filmic highlights of 2022 and to reflect on a strange year in cinema – the first full year since lock down.Mark is joined by Steph Read, Watershed Cinema Assistant and MA Curation student, and Film Programmer and Campaigns Manager Ti Singh.
November 2022 Cinema Podcast
October 27, 2022 10:10 - 30 minutes - 70 MBThis month our Cinema Curator explores all things Arcadia and beyond with musician / sonic explorer Adrian Utley and UWE MA Curation placement Steph Read.Mark discusses Adrian's creative process and later live performance of the score written by him and Will Gregory for Paul wright's archival experimental 2017 film Arcadia at St. George's and Steph's curated season at Watershed, Out of Arcadia, including Andrew Kotting's Gallivant and John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses.
October 2022 Cinema Podcast
October 01, 2022 08:58 - 31 minutes - 72.4 MBThis month Mark speaks with Andrew Kelly, Director of Bristol Ideas from 1993 - 2022, about the season he curated for Watershed this month as well as the new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front.Overseeing multiple projects across Bristol during his time as director, including At-Bristol (now We The Curious) and Bristol Legible City. Andrew has curated a season of films, Fractured Paris, showing this month at watershed along with being an authority on All Quiet on the Western Front.Im...
September 2022 Cinema Podcast
August 26, 2022 18:07 - 35 minutes - 80.5 MBThis month Mark speaks with Professor Andrew Spicer about his book; Sean Connery Acting, Stardom and National Identity, and the upcoming season at Watershed, Sean Connery: Beyond Bond.Andrew is a Proffessor of Cultural Production at University of West England in Bristol and will also be giving an illustrated talk and Q&A before the showing of The Hill. For more information visit: watershed.co.uk
August 2022 Cinema Podcast
July 29, 2022 11:24 - 12 minutes - 29.1 MBThis month Mark discusses The Films of Kinuyo Tanaka a season coming to Watershed in August with Dr Rayna Denison, professor of film at Bristol University and leading expert in Japanese cinema.Following the UK Premiere of Forever A Woman as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2022, Watershed will be screening new 4K restorations of Tanaka's films. After navigating a studio system of the 1950s that actively discouraged female directors, Tanaka made six ground-breaking features over the course of a dec...
July 2022 Cinema Podcast
June 30, 2022 15:45 - 35 minutes - 82.1 MBMark Cosgrove and guest co-host interview the curators behind this years Cinema Rediscovered festival, held across Bristol in July. With to interviews with Pamela Hutchinson and Mark Cosgrove on the strands they curated for this years Cinema Rediscovered.Cinema Rediscovered launched its first edition in July 2016, taking inspiration from the pioneering Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, Italy with a distinctive Bristol twist. Featuring the finest digital restorations, contemporary class...
June 2022 Cinema Podcast
May 26, 2022 15:46 - 46 minutes - 106 MBMark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Sean Wilson, Filmic Season Curator and writer, take a deep dive into film soundtracks throughout history.Filmic is a season of 5 films curated by Sean to illustrate the ever changing landscape of film scores, they discuss the upcoming season and Sean’s recently released book, The Sound of Cinema: Hollywood Film Music from the Silents to the Present.Mark and Sean delve into the work from Alex North on A Street Car Named Desire, Bernard Herrmann’s in...
May 2022 Cinema Podcast
May 04, 2022 15:03 - 24 minutes - 55.9 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Steph Read, UWE MA Curation placement, as they look forward to the program of films at Watershed over the coming month.They discuss perspective in cinema and the presentation of childhood in Norwegian supernatural thriller The Innocents by Eskil Vogt. Also, with Doc’n Roll returning to Bristol this month they review the music documentaries screening for the festival including artists like; Karen Dalton, The Triffids and Nick Cav...
April 2022 Cinema Podcast
March 28, 2022 17:45 - 5 minutes - 3.86 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers how film-watching changes have accelerated with the advent of covid.He shares his thoughts on the prevalence of the blockbuster and its now predictable model of following success with repetition. And how independent cinema offers a real alternative, with Watershed championing film originality and diversity from across the world.
March 2022 Cinema Podcast
February 28, 2022 15:29 - 17 minutes - 11 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema curator, and Zoe Rasbash, Watershed's Environmental Emergencies Action Researcher look forward to Green Screen, coming to Watershed at the end of March.Green Screen is a day of free short films, plus a panel discussion and a family workshop – all of which celebrate filmmakers and their work to explore cutting edge climate research.Zoe shares her Lilith Archive film project and they discuss the importance of arts in making change and the role of cultu...
February 2022 Cinema Podcast
February 01, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes - 13.4 MBThis month Dr Rayna Denison, Professor in Film and Digital Arts Bristol University, joins Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, to talk about Japanese Cinema.As they look forward to the upcoming Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme they share thoughts on the long time flourishing and prolific Japanese cinema industry, its funding and how the market for film works in Japan, plus current influences and genres.But most of all they discuss the highlights screening at Watershed this month; i...
January 2022 Cinema Podcast
December 21, 2021 13:12 - 12 seconds - 215 KBA brief note from Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator, ahead of January 2022
December 2021 Cinema Podcast
November 30, 2021 16:36 - 10 minutes - 6.09 MBFor the last podcast of the year, Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, shares his own experience of cinema – both personal and professional.As part of a book of essays, Opening Up the Magic Box, Mark was asked to reflect on the role of cinema in his life. Mark's essay, A Life Cinematic – the Early Years, presents a 10-year-old from the fringes of Glasgow enamoured with Cagney, Bogart and Wayne to the student years, and a first taste of selecting a film for others to see.
November 2021 Cinema Podcast
November 03, 2021 18:33 - 32 minutes - 19.1 MBNovember's Cinema Podcast celebrates a return of audiences to the cinema, renewed partnerships through the fantastic Afrika Eye film festival, and a season of films and discussions challenging Myth and Masculinity in the Western. Mark Cosgrove is joined by Annie Mentor, director Afrika Eye Festival and Lola McKinnon MA Curation Student.Annie shares what Afrika Eye Film Festival is and what impassions it to explore multi-faceted Africa through film, culture and collaboration. Plus all the high...
October 2021 Cinema Podcast
September 30, 2021 16:26 - 37 minutes - 22 MBIn October's cinema podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Lisa Harewood and Jonathan Ali from The Twelve30 Collective who showcases classic and contemporary films from the Caribbean and its diaspora. They discuss the Caribbean film scene and the tensions between looking to Hollywood and foregrounding the territories' own identities, the lack of independent cinemas and the challenges of screening films across multiple countries.Twelve30 Collective are also distributors ...
September 2021 Cinema Podcast
August 31, 2021 10:53 - 28 minutes - 16.5 MBWith screenings at Watershed now back up to 6 days a week a look ahead at September highlights coming up.Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks to Gary Thompson, founder of Cables & Cameras, about their Watershed takeover weekend at the end of September – Cables & Cameras Presents:INSPIRED. The weekend features a whole range of conversations, screenings and events that will explore Black/POC culture and talent both in front of and behind the camera.Mark is also joined by Adam Murray f...
August 2021 Cinema Podcast
July 29, 2021 17:31 - 4 minutes - 3.12 MBA quick and summery August podcast from Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator introducing the upcoming The World of Wong Kar Wai season.Mark introduces the seasons and shares how the films have been restored and reworked; and celebrates finally being able to re-introduce audiences to the lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism of Wong Kar Wai's contemporary cinema.
July 2021 Cinema Podcast
July 01, 2021 08:10 - 36 minutes - 21.4 MBIn this month's podcast Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Adam Murray (film programmer, critic, writer and broadcaster) look forward to Watershed's Cinema Rediscovered festival at the end of July – a celebration and re-framing of cinema's rich 125 year history.They share the strands and films they can't wait to bring to the big screen – screening in some cases for the first time in decades, if not ever in the UK.Mark's highlights include 1971: The Year Hollywood Went Independent, a...
June 2021 Cinema Podcast
May 28, 2021 11:07 - 30 minutes - 18.2 MBIn June's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, chats with Ti Singh founder of Bristol Bad Film Club, author of Born To Be Bad: Talking to the greatest villains in action cinema and lead on the BFI Film Audience Network's New Release Strategy, based at Watershed.They talk about what makes a film so bad it's good, how baddies in films reveal so much about action cinema and Ti's work supporting independent films to reach a wider audience.And to finish they share their excitement for ...
May 2021 Cinema Podcast
April 29, 2021 10:33 - 30 minutes - 18.1 MBIn May's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Dave Taylor of legendary Bristol video shop 20th Century Flicks.They reflect on the year that forgot cinema, the autobiographical viewing habits of the shop's customers through lockdown, and a history of the shop – it opened in the same year as Watershed in 1982 – and how it has managed to endure.They also look forward to the return of cinema screenings in May at Watershed, and the shop's screening rooms, and the clutch of...
April 2021 Cinema Podcast
March 30, 2021 09:23 - 29 minutes - 16.9 MBFor April's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by film & music critic and broadcaster Adam Murray.They discuss Adam's love of horror and research for a season of horror films, hopefully screening at Watershed this Autumn, exploring identity and fitting-in – and their relationship to Black representation and the Black experience. Adam also shares the two films he is looking forward to seeing at Watershed when it re-opens in May.
March 2021 Cinema Podcast
February 25, 2021 16:38 - 36 minutes - 21.4 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by historian, writer and curator Edson Burton and Matchbox Cine producer Megan Mitchell.They share how their cultural life has changed and adapted over the last several months, and some of the things they have been enjoying and found themselves unexpectedly watching – New York Independent cinema, Tom Cruise films, Tik Tok and the Small Axe series.
February 2021 Cinema Podcast
February 01, 2021 09:19 - 37 minutes - 28.5 MBWith the Watershed building and cinemas still closed, Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) talks with Watershed friends to share their recent small screen highlights from film and TV series old and new.Malaika Kegode – writer, performer, producer and Roger Griffith MBE – writer, producer, educator, social activist, consultant and CEO of Creative Connex – join Mark to share their recent film and television watching highlights from lockdown.Between them they discuss their recommendations fo...
January 2021 Cinema Podcast
December 21, 2020 11:47 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MBIn January's short podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, leaves 2020 behind and hopes that this coming year we can look forward to more regular screenings in the cinema and a return to the unique social experience that is at the heart of cinema.Mark shares films to look forward that would have screened in 2020 and a hint of plans and optimism in the air for 2021.
December 2020 Cinema Podcast
November 30, 2020 14:16 - 28 minutes - 22.6 MBWhile the halcyon days of films being released into the cinema seem a distant memory and Watershed Cinemas were more closed than open, this month's podcast still finds a rich array of fantastic films to remember from 2020.Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer and Thea Berry, film programmer and producer, share their highlights of the year. Albeit some were only available through Watershed online and lacking in the convivial community of the shared view...
November 2020 Cinema Podcast
October 28, 2020 14:00 - 32 minutes - 27.1 MBIn November's podcast Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) ponder and refute October's news of the delay in the new James Bond film and how, as reported by some newspapers, its a harbinger of the death of cinema.With cinema alive and well at Watershed, Mark and Tara share the films they are looking forward to in November. There are two films from Cronenbergs – a new restoration of the notorious Crash from David Cronenberg and Possessor from son B...
October 2020 Cinema Podcast
September 30, 2020 10:22 - 39 minutes - 32.5 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, welcomes Cinema Producer Tara Judah back from maternity leave to discuss their highlights for the month ahead and a packed programme of new films and cinematic opportunities.Mark and Tara share their thoughts on much anticipated new British horror Saint Maud; cliché free, debut feature Miss Juneteenth, with its incredible cast and focus on a mother and her daughter facing the wider issues of many African-American communities in the US; the r...
September 2020 Cinema Podcast
August 27, 2020 12:14 - 8 minutes - 6.55 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, shares the background to his thinking about the films he is putting on for Watershed's reopening in September, and shares upcoming highlights.With this century's version of mainstream cinema – in which the blockbuster is all – currently going through some serious contortions, he reiterates how there is more to cinema and film culture than Hollywood. And how that has led to an opening programme of films which speak to an essential cinematic q...
August 2020 Cinema Podcast
July 09, 2020 10:04 - 26 seconds - 572 KBThis month we take a pause in our monthly podcast as we prepare for re-opening.We look forward to seeing you in the cinema again soon.
July 2020 Cinema Podcast
June 30, 2020 09:34 - 12 minutes - 10 MBIn July's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, looks forward to welcoming audiences back to Watershed in September – but wonders what films will be available and how different cinema going will be.Despite the uncertainty there are new film releases ahead and Mark shares some of the titles to look forward to and highlights two films in particular to look out for online this month.
June 2020 Cinema Podcast
May 26, 2020 17:54 - 8 minutes - 5.63 MBIn June's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers whether, when people talk of the acute challenges now facing the arts sector, whether film is included in that?When does film become art; and what is the relationship between film and commerce?Mark also looks forward to the upcoming Japan 2020 film season hosted on the BFI website, whilst still hoping that the real world value of film does not get lost on the way.
May 2020 Cinema Podcast
April 29, 2020 15:07 - 9 minutes - 6.34 MBIn May's cinema podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers the existential crisis at the heart of cinema and film under the current situation. Delving into the past for insight, Mark wonders – what does cinema mean when there is no cinema?Also Mark shares his film picks for the coming month to help you cut through the current explosion of online film viewing opportunities.
April 2020 Cinema podcast
March 30, 2020 17:28 - 10 minutes - 7.53 MBIn these extraordinary times which have seen Watershed close its building and cancel all film screenings, Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator and Thea Berry, Watershed Cinema Producer, share some of the immediate responses from the filmmaking community to the current situation and offer pointers to some of the films that are currently exciting them – films which are easily available online and more often than not free to view.
March 2020 Cinema Podcast
February 27, 2020 16:05 - 30 minutes - 44.5 MBIn this month's podcast Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Cinema Producer Thea Berry look ahead to a packed month with plenty to get your eyes and ears into it.March sees the start of Watershed's two month cinematic celebration Filmic. In this podcast Mark and Thea share insights, stories and anecdotes on the inextricable link between film and music through Filmic's two seasons of upcoming films – Era-Defining Soundtracks and FILM SC♀RES: Celebrating Female Composers.They also talk a...
February 2020 Cinema Podcast
January 30, 2020 12:18 - 19 minutes - 35.8 MBFebruary maybe the shortest month of the year yet it contains a compelling wealth of cinematic joy, and a little bit of despair too. Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Thea Berry, Watershed Cinema Producer share their recommendations and highlights for the month ahead.First up they discuss why the long anticipated, sensational, Palme d'Or winning comedy thriller Parasite, is just so good. Also much anticipated is Portrait of a Lady on Fire in which they say something really special ...