About us
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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Tarkovsky season: Ivan's Childhood — Meet from 1 pm, film at 2 pm
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GBWe're going to see Tarkovsky's 1962 debut feature, Ivan's Childhood.
Part of Watershed's season of films by Andrei Tarkovsky.
We'll meet in the Watershed café/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
"Andrei Tarkovsky’s extraordinarily accomplished debut feature is a powerful and moving tale of a 12-year-old boy who vows to avenge his family’s death at the hands of the Nazis."
—Watershed summary"Tarkovsky’s first feature – about a Soviet teenager engaged in espionage missions on the German front during World War Two – is also one of his finest: visually impressive, emotionally direct, eschewing the symbolism and portentousness of some of his later films."
—BFI Programme Note"Tarkovsky pays full attention to the squalor and pity of war but never loses his sense of poetry ... surely the most lyrical war movie ever made"
★★★★★ Geoffrey Macnab, Independent" ... pure audacity and visual beauty are electrifying ... Unmissable"
★★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian"No other director is simultaneously so precise and so otherworldly, so uncompromisingly bleak and so awake to the possibilities of joy ... Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one."
★★★★★ Tom Huddleston, Time Out3 attendees
Movie Meetup— Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma —Meet from 7:15 pm, film 8:40
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB"Schoenbrun’s delirious third film is their most accomplished, most persuasive and most playful movie yet."
★★★★★ Jessica Kiang, VarietyWe're going to see Jane Schoenbrun's new film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
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
"After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the 'Camp Miasma' slasher franchise at the centre of the film is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.Schoenbrun follows up their previous feature, I Saw the TV Glow, with this sexy, audacious ride into the world of cult horror films, sensitively exploring the nuances of how the media we consume shapes our identity, all in a playful ode to the slasher flick."
—Watershed summary"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma defies easy categorisation. It’s a romance, sure, but it’s also a horror film ... and undoubtedly it’s a comedy too"
★★★★★ Hannah Strong, Little White Lies"Our favorite slasher movies are often a little rough around the edges, a little unhinged, and a little inconsistent. And very few of them are this wildly entertaining."
★★★★ Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert .com"You can view the work as a visceral slasher send-up, a stylish academic exercise about gender expression and inquiry in horror iconography, or as just a plain old, super fun, future cult lesbian classic."
★★★★ Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire"Much of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a classic two-hander, sharply written with plenty of scope for the two leads to shine. For all the movie’s self-awareness, it’s filled with tenderness and humor."
★★★★ Richard Brody, The New Yorker6 attendees
Past events
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