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Watershed Podcast

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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January 2021 Cinema Podcast

Watershed Podcast ·

2020/12/21

In 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.

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28:02

December 2020 Cinema Podcast

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2020/11/30

While 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 viewing

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32:56

November 2020 Cinema Podcast

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2020/10/28

In 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 Brandon

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39:04

October 2020 Cinema Podcast

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2020/09/30

This 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

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08:47

September 2020 Cinema Podcast

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2020/08/27

This 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

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00:26

August 2020 Cinema Podcast

Watershed Podcast ·

2020/07/09

This 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.

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July 2020 Cinema Podcast

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2020/06/30

In 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.

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08:28

June 2020 Cinema Podcast

Watershed Podcast ·

2020/05/26

In 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.

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09:14

May 2020 Cinema Podcast

Watershed Podcast ·

2020/04/29

In 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.

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10:34

April 2020 Cinema podcast

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2020/03/30

In 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.

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30:26

March 2020 Cinema Podcast

Watershed Podcast ·

2020/02/27

In 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 about

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19:01

February 2020 Cinema Podcast

Watershed Podcast ·

2020/01/30

February 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 happens

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28:36

January 2020 Cinema Podcast

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2019/12/19

Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator and Thea Berry, Cinema Producer, plus guests, discuss our upcoming weekend of musicals exploring race, identity and politics – busting the myth that musicals are all just jazz hands and frippery.Mark and Thea also discuss their start of the year highlights including in February the brilliantly cinematic Portrait of a Lady on Fire and the totally unpredictable journey of Parasite.The year starts off though with the the rip roaring salty dog sea tale that is The

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39:42

December 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/11/28

Cinema Curator, Mark Cosgrove, and Cinema Producers Thea Berry and Tara Judah, share some of their stand out films of the year plus discuss the year in film – the films that didn't get the attention they deserved, the wealth of world cinema and strong British cinema in 2019 – and share their top 5 films of the year.

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21:30

November 2019 Cinema Podcast

Watershed Podcast ·

2019/10/30

Festival season continues this month at Watershed as Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator, and Thea Berry, Cinema Producer, look forward to the eighth Afrika Eye Film Festival – bringing remarkable artists and filmmakers to Watershed and beyond; two films from UK Jewish Film Festival on Tour representing the best of contemporary Jewish cinema from around the world; two films from the London Korean Film Festival showcasing both the old and new of Korean cinema, and finally two films from the UK Green Film

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22:14

October 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/10/01

This month's podcast discusses Shextreme – a film festival celebrating women in adventure and extreme sports – and how it gets behind the stories; how Scorsese gets the gang back together for The Irishman, Chris Morris' biting new satire The Day Shall Come, multi-layered, darkly comic film-within-a-film Chained for Life and a season of Weimar Sundays silent film screenings.There's a lot to see in cinema this month at Watershed.Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator, and Thea Berry, Cinema Producer, are

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September 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/08/30

Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Watershed Cinema Producer Thea Berry are joined by Encounters Film Festival director Rich Warren and Come the Revolution curator Liz Chege.Rich and Mark discuss how Encounters all started, the enduring appeal and popularity of short film and what to expect at this year's festival. Liz and Mark discuss The Last Tree and its themes, a unique Nigerian perspective and the notion of going home. And Thea discusses her two favourite new releases coming to

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August 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/07/25

Rife Magazine, representation on screen, Almodovar's latest, a cinematic Cornish treat and French summer holidays all feature in a look ahead to August in film at Watershed.Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove is joined by Asmaa Jama from Rife magazine.

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July 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/07/01

Watershed's Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Cinema Producer Tara Judah share their upcoming highlights in film for July. From the fantastic snapshot of what's happening with restorations, archive and rarities that is the Cinema Rediscovered festival; to new releases such as the gothic horror Midsommar, Jim Jarmusch's dead-pan zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die and the last film from feminist icon, pioneer and legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda, Varda by Agnes.Cinema Rediscovered offers a great

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27:57

June 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/05/29

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer look ahead to June 2019 at Watershed Cinema with their own personal highlights from the month.Mark looks forward to Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's Gloria Bell – an English language remake of Lelio's own acclaimed 2013 film Gloria, with Julianne Moore as a divorced mother having a coming-of-age experience later in life. Both Tara and Mark highlight In Fabric – a visually rich, sensuous, surreal and funny story –

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