Highlights revealed for Watershed’s annual Cinema Rediscovered festival

Highlights revealed for Watershed’s annual Cinema Rediscovered festival

Posted on: 23 May 2024

Early Bird Passes are now on sale for this year’s edition of the ever-popular screenings series, dedicated to the rediscovery and revival of great films in and around Bristol.

 

Cinema Rediscovered will run across multiple Bristol venues between Wednesday 24 and Sunday 28 July 2024.

 

With over 50 events and screenings planned – including 4k film restorations and curiosities from around the world – this year’s festival is shaping up to be the most thrilling edition to date. Add in special guests, a walking tour, happy hour gatherings and a hugely popular quiz and you’ve got a brilliant cinematic weekend!

 

Grab your Early Bird Passes from the Watershed website.

 

 

While the full programme of films and events for this eighth edition of the festival is yet to be announced, organisers have announced some details of this year’s lineup. The two opening night films are maverick director Jean Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï (1967) and Charles Vidor’s sultry film noir Gilda (1946).

 

Marking what would have been Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas’ 90th year, the festival will partner up with The Bill Douglas Museum to present the 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.

 

 

Cinema Rediscovered will run across Watershed, the former IMAX at Bristol Aquarium, 20th Century Flicks, The Cube Microplex and the historic Curzon Clevedon in Somerset between Wednesday 24 and Sunday 28 July 2024.

 

Early Bird Festival Passes are on sale now for the reduced price of £90 full, £70 concessions and £50 for under 24s. These passes are only on sale until midnight on Wednesday 5 June, so hurry and secure yours HERE.

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Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.