Podcasts about cinema rediscovered

https://notesonfilm1.com/2024/07/31/cinema-rediscovered-2024-wrap-up/ We have nothing but praise for this year's edition of Cinema Rediscovered. In the podcast, we discuss the pleasures of seeing Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946) and Le Samurai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) in beautiful prints on the opening night; the pleasure in seeing restorations with an audience where every time someone responds differently it raises a question one might not have thought of before; thus, a pleasure that begins in the realm of the aesthetic and moves on and combines with the the real of dreams and thoughts. We talk about the two Edward Yang films screened,  A Confucian Confusion (1994) and Mahjong (1996) and praise Ian Wang for doing such a terrific job of introducing the films: interesting, entertaining, succinct and opening up ways of entering the film, a challenge in the age of Wikipedia. We discuss the Ninon Sevilla cabaretera films, possibly the hit of the festival. There was a fantastic programme of 'New' Hollywood films -- Out of Their Depth: Corruption Scandal and Lies in the New Hollywood -- and we discuss the only two films in the programme that we did manage to see:  Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975) and The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973). We hope to catch up with the rest when it tours. The festival offers a great balance tween the more esoteric strands and those appealing to a larger audience. It was wonderful to see The Wizard of Oz (1939) with an audience full of children, some of them dressed up as Dorothy. We also touch on the eff Barnaby and  Bill Douglas cycles as well as  the Sergei Parajanov restorations and other strands of the festival. We will be doing a separate podcast on the Queer Cinema from the Eastern Bloc programme. There were several revelations in this festival that we discuss in the podcast: The Student Nurses (Stephanie Rothman, 1970) the only woman to direct a film in Hollywood between Ida Lupino and Elaine May; Charles Burnett's The Annihilation of Fish (1999); Ehsahn Khoshbakht's beautiful and very personal Cellulloid Underground; and Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's Il Mare (1962), which David Melville Wingrove in his introduction argued had been a formative influence on Jarman as well as Bill Douglas and, we later learned on Tony Richardson as well as Pedro Almodóvar. Quite a queer package. Lastly, we praise how the festival makes use of the city, the different venues, It's part of a concerted effort to bring the city into the festival and the festival into the city. The festival seems an incubator for curators, some curating a single film, some a strand. A very entertaining event, and no one used their phones during the screening. Big Gold Star. The community feel, the social engagement, the educational component of talks and workshops, a teaching people how to do things, all meshed together to form a very impressive festival. Many congratulations to all. Some of the strands will be touring.

https://notesonfilm1.com/2024/07/20/cinema-rediscovered-2024-preview/ Richard and I preview the 2024 Cinema Rediscovered Programme taking place in Bristol, July 24-28. We've already podcast on the Parajanov films and the Ninon Sevilla ‘cabaretera' films so we here highlight some of the other strands such as the 70s cycle of ‘New” American films of the 70s titled OUT OF THEIR DEPTH: CORRUPTION, SCANDAL AND LIES IN THE NEW HOLLYWOOD and QUEER CINEMA FROM THE EASTER BLOC. We also highlight restorations of films from Charles Burnett, Bela Tarr, Edward Yang and many others, as well as the rare opportunity to see films by the likes of Lynda Miles, Stephanie Rothman, not to mention beautiful restorations of classics such as GILDA and THE LONG KISS GOODBYE. Cinema Rediscovered offers not only a superb programme but a model of engagement, community based, inclusive, social, cinephile, generative. It includes films but also history walks, workshops on criticism and projection and much else. Aat the centre of it all are films, usually in beautiful prints with great attention to projection, all instigating a conversation on cinema.

https://notesonfilm1.com/2024/07/15/jose-arroyo-in-conversation-with-daniel-bird-on-sergei-parajanov/ We ask who is Parajanov and why Parajanov? We touch in the centrality of his work to the national and cultural identities of so many countries: Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Russia; its aesthetic beauty and its continuing power. Certain filmmakers continuously crop up in relation to Parajanov's work -- Eisenstein, Jarman, Greenaway, Pasolini, Kenneth Anger, Powell and Pressburger. The conversation is bounded by the war in Ukraine; post-colonial relations; the excitement of cinema poetry, the need to archive, preserve, restore and circulate; questions of anarchy in totalitarian context; and a fluid line of different degrees of queerness that runs across Parajanov's oeuvre. Beautifully restored versions of SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS and THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES will be screened at Cinema Rediscovered, Watershed, Bristol on July 28th.

In this special podcast Cinema Steph is joined by Cinema Rediscovered 2024 curators Mark Cosgrove, Adam Murray and Lorena Pino to discuss the festival which takes place Wed 24 - Sun 28 July.Produced by Bernie Hodges.

https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/07/22/thinking-aloud-about-film-cinema-rediscovered-2023/ Cinema Rediscovered, which takes place annually in Bristol, is one of the most exciting events in the cinema calendar year. In the accompanying podcast, Richard discusses the various strands of the program (Reframing Film; Restored and Re-discovered; Look Who's Back -- The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist; Dowb abd Dirty: American D.IY, Restored) and José offers tips on many of the various films that make up the program. There are many reasons to visit Bristol, and attending this festival is tops of the list.

In this special episode, Mark and Steph are joined by Stef Graham from Watershed's Comms Team and film writer Sean Wilson to discuss this year's Cinema Rediscovered.Together they discuss what they're most looking forward to watching, the changing significance of soundtrack in a film and putting the world to rights when it comes to promotional film stills!This episode is recorded and produced by Bernie Hodges.

I was unable to attend this year's Ritrovato; a pity as the programming is often a preview of films that subsequently screen elsewhere and inevitably become highlights of the year. Luckily, Richard was there to report on what he saw he saw.  In the podcast, we discuss the following sections of the festival:The Time Machine: 1923, where films from a century ago get highlighted; The Space Machine section, particularly the Cinema Libero selections, of which Richard was able to see every feature film. We discuss the New Film Foundation Restorations, of which Richard highlights BUSHMAN ( David Schickele, 1981) and TIME OF THE HEATHEN(Peter Kass, 1961) . BUSHMAN will be shown at Bristol's Cinema Rediscovered this year. Richard also highlights two Iranian films by Bharam Beyzaie, director of DOWNPOUR Like with  CHESS IN THE WIND, programmer Ehsan Khoshbakht describes THE STRANGER AND THE FOG and THE BALLAD OF TARA as a holy grail of Iranian Cinema, pre-revolutionary films thought lost and now  restored. Richard touches on some of the restorations he saw: MAN'S CASTLE (Frank Borzage),  CROSS OF IRON, CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY (Zoltan Korda); MARRIAGE CIRCLE  and  LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN,  the latter with a score by Timothy Brock and shown with a  full orchestra; Stella Dallas, with Stephen Horne's orchestral score and an equally  wonderful orchestra. We discuss the Anna Magnani section; the Rouben Mamoulian section, which Richard views as an opportunity to see the films at their best rather than any revelations; The Michael Powell section, mostly Powell without Pressburger. Powell himself said he didn't think his reputation would survive many more discoveries of his quota quickies. Has it? We also discuss  being at the festival this year: The pros and cons of seeing films on the Square; the system of advance bookings; the faults and virtues of the introductions; and whether Ritrovato should continue the digital programming it began during COVID.  The overall assessment is that it was a wonderful festival and I look forward to once more be present at it next year, José Arroyo

Steph Read talks to Stef Graham from the Comms Team at Watershed and Queer Vision's Jason Barker about what's coming up during this summer including Cinema Rediscovered, Queer Vision Film Festival and Barbie.

This week we are honoured to be joined by Adam Murray from the Bristol Black Horror Club to discuss socially conscious horror films. The films this week are the George A Romero ghoul classic, Night of the Living Dead and Jordan Peele's beautifully subversive Get Out. We delve into some of the exciting and wonderful places around Bristol to take in films such as the wonderful Waterfront cinema (with their recent Cinema Rediscovered event) and the ever fantastic 20th Century Flicks. The timings for this week are: Night of the Living Dead (9:03) Get Out (41:21) Next weeks theme will be Orwellian dystopia. Find out more about Adam and the Bristol Black Horror Club: Twitter: @BrisBlakHorrorC Website: www.bristolblackhorrorclub.com Upcoming Events: www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk www.abertoir.co.uk https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/season/585/cables-cameras-presents-inspired-22 Follow us on social media: Instagram: frametoframepod Twitter: frametoframepod Letterboxd: frametoframe Facebook: Frame to Frame Email: frame.to.frame250@gmail.com Follow our network: Twitter: @we_madethis Instagram: @wemadethisnetwork Facebook: @wemadethis Website: www.wemadethisnetwork.com Music: Gothamlicious by Kevin MacLeod
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This week we are honoured to be joined by Adam Murray from the Bristol Black Horror Club to discuss socially conscious horror films. The films this week are the George A Romero ghoul classic, Night of the Living Dead and Jordan Peele's beautifully subversive Get Out.We delve into some of the exciting and wonderful places around Bristol to take in films such as the wonderful Waterfront cinema (with their recent Cinema Rediscovered event) and the ever fantastic 20th Century Flicks.The timings for this week are:Night of the Living Dead (9:03)Get Out (41:21)Next weeks theme will be Orwellian dystopia.Find out more about Adam and the Bristol Black Horror Club:Twitter: @BrisBlakHorrorC Website: www.bristolblackhorrorclub.com Upcoming Events:www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk www.abertoir.co.ukhttps://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/season/585/cables-cameras-presents-inspired-22Follow us on social media:Instagram: frametoframepodTwitter: frametoframepodLetterboxd: frametoframeFacebook: Frame to FrameEmail: frame.to.frame250@gmail.comFollow our network:Twitter: @we_madethisInstagram: @wemadethisnetworkFacebook: @wemadethisWebsite: www.wemadethisnetwork.com Music:Gothamlicious by Kevin MacLeod
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This month Mark discusses The Films of Kinuyo Tanaka a season coming to Watershed in August with Dr Rayna Denison, professor of film at Bristol University and leading expert in Japanese cinema.Following the UK Premiere of Forever A Woman as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2022, Watershed will be screening new 4K restorations of Tanaka's films. After navigating a studio system of the 1950s that actively discouraged female directors, Tanaka made six ground-breaking features over the course of a decade, dismissing the passivity assigned to most female protagonists of the era and creating a small, radical oeuvre of progressive heroines.

https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/07/26/cinema-rediscovered-2022-bristol-watershed-2022-final-round-up/ We discuss the last two days of the program and then take a step back to discuss the event as a whole. We praise the variety of programming, the extraordinarily efficient organisation and the very welcoming community feel to the whole event. I'm very jealous we don't have anything like this in Birmingham, and it really is made possible by the contributions of so many committed individuals. So many thanks to all of them for making this such a special event. We highlight the workshops and talks (the one on film criticism led by MUBI; the 40th anniversary discussion of Twentieth Century Flicks, Mark Fuller's Sunday Cinema Walk)and then evaluate the many different strands that constituted a superb programme. We discuss Fury, Paris Blues, Chess of the Wind , Baby Face; Spencer Tracy and Barbara Stanwyck, Josephine Baker and Sidney Poitier; ...and much else

https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/07/23/cinema-rediscovered-2022-day-three-round-up-2/ We discuss the second of our full day of viewing at Cinema Rediscovered, and name-check a wonderful introduction to The Joker by Matthew Sweet. We discuss The Laws of Love, Jewel Robbery, The Afterlight, Queen Christina, Harold and Maud.... and much else.

https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/07/21/thinking-aloud-about-film-cinema-rediscovered-round-up-day-1-2022/ We continue our discussion of Cinema Rediscovered 2022 with a round-up of the first full day of programming and two of the events that kicked off the program yesterday: The Philip French Memorial Lecture with Samira Ahmed and the UK premiere of the restored version of Lost Highway. We touch on two key strands of the program. The first is  Pre-Code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken, curated by Pamela Hutchinson and Christina Newland, with  two of the five films that kickstart that strand: Blonde Crazy with James Cagney and Joan Blondell, one of the great couples of classic cinema, shown at their characteristic AND best as hotel workers turned wisecracking swindlers: urban, beautiful, loose of limb and tongue, a joy to watch at every turn. We also take in A Free Soul,  an emblem of a 1931 version of female sexual emancipation and modernity, a full-blown courtroom melodrama with Norma Shearer at her chicest and sexiest, if not always at her acting best. We also discuss two films by Sarah Maldoror, Sambizanga, and also A Dessert for Constance, part of the other strand of the program under discussion today:  Karen Alexander's Black Paris: Josephine and Beyond Programme. A day full of films and discussion on films in which the Rewriting Film History (With the Women in It) and Pre-Code Hollywood: Rules Are Made to Be Broken are particular standouts. A fantastic start to the festival.

https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/07/20/thinking-aloud-about-film-cinema-rediscovered-2022-in-conversation-with-mark-fuller-on-cinema-history-in-bristol/ We talk to Bristol Film Historian Mark Fuller about the history of cinemas, film and filmgoing in Bristol, touching on the different processes, periods and personalities that stand out in this fascinating local history. Mark will flesh this out in two gentle walks through Bristol as part of the Cinema Rediscovered Program. The first one is on Saturday July 23rd. It will start opposite Everyman Bristol (aka the former Whiteladies Picture House) at 9:00, near Clifton Down Shopping Centre (Buses 1, 2 and 4 from the Centre) and finish near The Galleries at approximately 10:30. Walk Two on Sunday will start at 9:00 by the College Green bus stop, and end around 10:30 at Castle Park. Weather permitting, there will be visual aids with archive photographs and clips to help illustrate the talks at each stop. You can book here: https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/11294/cinema-walk-1 https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/11317/cinema-walk-2

Mark Cosgrove and guest co-host interview the curators behind this years Cinema Rediscovered festival, held across Bristol in July. With to interviews with Pamela Hutchinson and Mark Cosgrove on the strands they curated for this years Cinema Rediscovered.Cinema Rediscovered launched its first edition in July 2016, taking inspiration from the pioneering Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, Italy with a distinctive Bristol twist. Featuring the finest digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities, it's a chance to see lesser known cinematic voices and dive deep into the legacy of revered filmmakers.For more information visit: watershed.co.uk/cinema-rediscovered

In this month's podcast Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Adam Murray (film programmer, critic, writer and broadcaster) look forward to Watershed's Cinema Rediscovered festival at the end of July – a celebration and re-framing of cinema's rich 125 year history.They share the strands and films they can't wait to bring to the big screen – screening in some cases for the first time in decades, if not ever in the UK.Mark's highlights include 1971: The Year Hollywood Went Independent, a programme of films exploring the essential contribution that women made to The New Hollywood era; when outsiders, independents and mavericks were welcomed into the mainstream. Plus the amazing background to The Story of a Three-Day Pass – a nouvelle vague infused film by young Black American Melvin Van Peebles made in Paris, never released in the UK and now restored to its former glory.Adam looks forward to Blue Collar, an uncompromising tale set in Detroit of three-working men; starring Yaphet Kotto as Smokey James alongside double trouble Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel. Released in 1978 Adam discusses the extraordinary performances exploring race, unions and working class masculinity; and surely one of the greatest, grimy, opening scenes and soundtracks in a film ever.Finally Adam looks forward to launching his Bristol Black Horror Club at the festival with a screening of The Beast Must Die – a fun, camp, werewolf thrill-ride with a great soundtrack and a Black actor in a multi-dimensional lead role.

So cinemas are open which is hugely exciting! What are people going to see? And where? Lots of things that have had releases are back on big screens like Nomadland and Sound of Metal and Ammonite, which is cool because I think they’re all films that will benefit from that sense of surroundedness that you can only get from the cinema.  And so it feels fitting that my guest this week has worked in cinemas and is an advocate for the kind of tangible film-going experience and that person is Tara Judah. Tara is a cultural critic, film programmer and curator and occasional video essayist. She was Watershed's Cinema Producer for two years, having freelanced in programming and editorial for the Watershed's archive, classic and repertory film festival, Cinema Rediscovered, which launched in 2016. Tara was also Co-Director at 20th Century Flicks video shop and programmed films for Australia's iconic single screen repertory theatre, The Astor, and for Melbourne's annual feminist film event, Girls on Film Festival.  And she is currently Editor of Critics Reviews at MUBI and writes a bi-weekly column for an online journal called Ubiquarian that focuses on experimental cinema alongside documentaries and shorts and champions the forms or mediums that surprise us. We talk about being a mature student, redefining experimental cinema, criticism and film-festival going in the time of a pandemic, increasing transparency around freelance rates and fees and producing work that is unique to you. I’m not going to lie, I had high expectations for this chat, because Tara is such a thoughtful and critical thinker and writer, and it did not disappoint, Tara contends with lots of thorny and important issues in the industry and raises lots of salient points, so I do hope you enjoy listening.   Show notes: Cinema Rediscovered Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Tara's column 'Reflections' for Ubiquarian Europa Cinemas report on innovation & audience-building So Mayer Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.      

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 opportunity to dive a bit deeper into film culture and Mark and Tara's picks include a focus on the great British director Nick Roeg's incredible body of work from, Robert Bresson's rarely screened and highly under rated La Femme Deuce, a look at the influence of London's infamous Scala cinema which programmed both high art and low rent b-movies alongside each other, to the original cinema innovators of the Victorian era.

Where is the best place to watch a film? At home on your laptop or at the cinema with an audience? Ben and Ellisha look at the ‘Convenience vs Experience' debate, considering netflix, megavideo, Walter Benjamin and Dr Strangelove. PLUS some thoughts on the matter from the audience at this year's Cinema Rediscovered Festival. Stick around at the end for a bonus dissection of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! Don't forget to follow us @judgemoviepod on Twitter to see the freshest film thoughts from the twisted mind of Judge Movie. 00:00 - 03:15 Intro 03:16 - 31:45 Film Habitats Discussion 31:46 - 33:47 Outro 33:48 - 42:55 Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again discussion For full show notes and links: https://judgemoviepod.wordpress.com/category/episodes/

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 Tara Judah round up their quick picks of the month – from Queer Vision to Cinema Rediscovered, with a side order of iconic martial artist and cultural innovator Bruce Lee.

Archive chat this episode from Vanessa Redgrave, talking to Simon Callow in 1991 about Antonioni, the "terrifying" British film industry of the 1960s and shaving her head for the concentration camp film Playing for Time. Elsewhere we talk to Pin Cushion DoP, Nicola Daley about creating the candy-coloured world of the phantasmagoric bullying drama, discuss the future of film criticism with Cinema Rediscovered producer Tara Judah and find out what kind of babysitter revolutionary fashion designer Alexander McQueen was, thanks to his nephew, Gary.The BFI Podcast is written, presented and produced by Henry Barnes. This episode contains clips from the following:Pin Cushion. Directed by Deborah Haywood and released in 2018 by Pinpoint.McQueen. Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui and released in 2018 by Lionsgate.The following tracks are used under licence through Audio Network, unless otherwise credited:Throwback Jack, written and performed by Tim Garland and released in 2013.Lazy Daze, written and performed by Barrie Gledden and released in 2003.Apartment, written and performed by Chris Blackwell and released in 2009.Silent Future, written and performed by Christopher Alcock and Nick Ramm and released in 2017.Games, written and performed by Bob Bradley, Nick McEnally and Josh Weller and released in 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cinema Blindspot - The Eighth Wonder of the World - is back! In time for Cinema Rediscovered in Bristol this month, Ti and Tara talk about the classic monster movie King Kong (1933). Discussing everything from the film's ground-breaking stop motion animation to the 2005 Peter Jackson remake, the Cinema Blindspot team muse whether beauty really did kill the beast. Follow Cinema Blindspot on Twitter at @CinemaBlindspot and on Facebook. Please rate and review us on iTunes so fellow film fans can find us!  

The July podcast looks forward to Cinema Rediscovered – a chance to discover some of the finest new digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities from across the globe where they were meant to be experienced – on the big screen.Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks about how Cinema Rediscovered came about, how it fits into the annual film calendar and shares his own must sees of the weekend.