Don't forget: a festival of classic cinema is coming next month

Posted on: 24 Jun 2024

Cinema Rediscovered, the festival of cinema history, is coming to Bristol next month, and earlybird tickets have already sold out.

With more than 60 events and screenings planned – including 4K restorations and curiosities from around the world – this year’s edition of Cinema Rediscovered is shaping up to be the most thrilling one yet. Add in special guests, a walking tour, happy hour gatherings and a hugely popular quiz and you’ve got a brilliant cinematic weekend!

 

Cinema Rediscovered will run across multiple Bristol venues between Wednesday 24 and Sunday 28 July 2024. Opening the festival are maverick director Jean Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï (1967) and sultry film-noir Gilda (1946) by Charles Vidor.

 

 

The festival are also partnering with The Bill Douglas Museum to mark what would have been Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas’ 90th year; presenting his achingly beautiful trilogy (1972-78), alongside the new documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend (2024), which gives a fresh insight into the mercurial filmmaker.

 

Charles Burnett’s long-lost feature The Annihilation of Fish (1999) will also be screened on its 25th anniversary, as will John Sayles’ Oscar-nominated contemporary Western Lone Star (1996), starring a young Matthew McConaughey alongside Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson.

 

 

There will also be screenings of two films by Bristol-born, Oscar and BAFTA-nominated director J. Lee Thompson: The Weak and the Wicked (1954) and No Trees in The Street (1959), both of which feature strong central performances from two recently lost British leading ladies, Glynis Johns and Sylvia Syms.

 

Discount earlybird tickets for the festival have already sold out, with tickets now on general release. A standard pass, granting access to the full festival and all 60+ screenings, is £120 – but concessions are available for £100, and (as always with Watershed) under-25s can get a pass for just £80.

 

For more information on Cinema Rediscovered, or to get your tickets, head to Watershed’s website.

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