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PODCAST

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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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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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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May 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/04/24

This month Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Campaigns Manager Ti Singh focus on acclaimed French director Claire Denis' first english language science fiction film High Life. They discuss how the film explores the human condition, isolation and incarceration and talk about an accompanying season Lost in Space, which asks – what happens to humanity when you remove it from its context?Tara & Ti also look forward to Woman at War a warmhearted and utterly unique look at an Icelandic eco-warrior

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April 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/04/01

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer, share their picks from April in cinema. The Sisters Brothers is first up and is a classic Western from French director Audiard. Then we're off to Glasgow for the toe-tappingly good Wild Rose and the story of one woman's dreams of singing all the way to Nashville. Next it's off to Italy for Happy as Lazzaro a magic-realist fable about modern Italy, greed and corruption directed by Alice Rohrwacher; a filmmaker that

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March 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/02/28

Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) share thoughts and insights on photographer turned filmmaker Richard Billingham's superb portrait of deprived 1980s Birmingham family life Ray & Liz; Out of Blue Carol Morley's unmissable adaptation of a Martin Amis novel; plus Swedish outsider, genre defying Border.In the second half of this extended podcast Mark is joined by Filmic co-curator Phil Johnson to share their highlights from this two month series of

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February 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2019/01/28

The focus this month is on filmmaker Barry Jenkins and his captivating new film If Beale Street Could Talk.Watershed Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove share their thoughts on what makes Barry Jenkins such a brilliant director and extraordinary visual filmmaker. They also share insight into Jenkins' key influences and his previous work as part of a short accompanying season of films – In The Mood for Barry Jenkins.

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January 2019 Cinema Podcast

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2018/12/28

Cinema at Watershed in 2019 kicks off with scabrous wit and two period dramas, both with a modern feel and contemporary resonances.In January's podcast Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer, and Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talk about The Favourite and Colette amongst other film highlights for January. They also eagerly anticipate films coming to Watershed in February and beyond and look forward to another exciting year in cinema.

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December 2018 Cinema Podcast

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2018/11/30

Reflecting on the 2018 programme Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer, celebrate their Top 5 Films of the year and talk about the films that have stayed with them till the end of 2018.

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November 2018 Cinema Podcast

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2018/10/30

November's Cinema podcast highlights just a few of this month's much anticipated new releases and a season of playful reflections on what it means to be a witch in film.This month Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) are joined by MA Curation student Thea Berry to talk about Reclaiming the Witch. This season of films explores all manner of sorceress-on-screen outings to laugh at and wonder – why is it that some women were represented that way?Alongside

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October 2018 Cinema Podcast

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2018/10/01

Watershed's Cinema Podcast for October highlights two films that are trying to make sense of Europe's recent past, but in very different ways.Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) focus on new film Utøya – a Norwegian, real-time recreation of the horrific attack by armed right-wing extremist Anders Breivik on 500 teenagers at a summer camp, that ultimately left 69 people dead. Mark and Tara discuss when is the right time for a film like this, how the

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September 2018 Cinema Podcast

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2018/08/23

Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Cinema Producer Tara Judah share their highlights and must see films this September at Watershed.They discuss the absorbing and sometimes confounding blurring of fact and fiction in three fantastic new films - The Rider, Skate Kitchen and Matangi/Maya/MIA. Enfant terrible and arch provocateur Gaspar Noe's new film Climax takes Mark completely by surprise, despite his low expectations, whilst Tara continues to revel in the singular vision of Agnes Varda's new film

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August 2018 Cinema Podcast

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2018/07/30

August brings an embarrassment of cinematic riches gathered together under the broad headline of seriously playful, or indeed playfully serious, filmmaking.In this month's podcast Watershed's Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove revel in the highly inventive and unabashedly feminine 60 year filmmaking history of Agnes Varda, look forward to a preview of Spike Lee's latest film BlacKkKlansman alongside a retrospective season of Lee's films and work as one of the most

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July 2018 Cinema Podcast

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2018/06/28

This month's cinema podcast focusses on four highlights for July; two new films that explore religion – one a faith testing thriller and the other a rare insight into the complex nature of faith, family, duty and love; a completely absorbing slow cinema documentary that touches on universal questions through the minutiae of the New York Public Library, and a heartbreaking yet charming story of a mother and daughter who struggle to escape bullies.Plus Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Cinema Producer

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June 2018 Cinema Podcast

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2018/05/31

Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove discuss some of their June highlights in cinema at Watershed.Their picks include a film on the early life of a serial killer that they initially wondered why anyone would want to watch, a reissued classic that is still the only film by a female director to have won the Palme d'Or and a 200 year celebration of an archetypal monster.

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May 2018 Watershed Podcast

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2018/04/30

Introducing some of the highlights in film coming up at Watershed this month – from the stylistic and outrageously bloody retribution of Revenge; the mesmeric and satirical post-colonial world of Zama; to our cinematic retrospective of revolutionary times fifty years ago.May's podcast introduces Watershed's new Cinema Producer Tara Judah in conversation with Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove to bring you a round up of the month ahead in film at Watershed.

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April 2018 Watershed Podcast

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2018/03/28

As part of Filmic, April's podcast offers a sonic guided tour to the soundtracks of this month's upcoming film season, The Sound of Sci-fi.Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and film journalist Sean Wilson discuss how science fiction films are fertile ground for film score composers to develop their own sonic language, responding to subjects beyond our day-to-day comprehension. They play snippets from the soundtracks and discuss what makes them so compelling, otherworldly and successful.

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March 2018 Watershed Podcast

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2018/02/28

At the start of Filmic 2018 – Watershed's annual exploration of the creative connections between film and music – this months podcast looks at some of the films coming up and the central role that music plays in film.Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and film journalist Sean Wilson discuss the essence of a good film score and how, citing examples of classic collaborations between directors and composers, music can enhance the emotional truth of a film.They also look forward to this month's

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February 2018 Watershed Podcast

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2018/01/31

This month's season of films on 35mm film, from director Paul Thomas Anderson, leads Watershed cinema curator Mark Cosgrove to reflect on his own personal experiences of the film industry.As a film studies graduate in the 1980s his passion for film was not matched by any knowledge of how a film actually gets in to the cinema. Mark discusses both this fundamental naivety and the huge impact digital has had in recent years on the industry and looks forward to celebrating the work of director, and

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