Podcast appearances and mentions of mark cosgrove

This week we feature guitar player Mark Cosgrove.  Mark is a national flatpicking guitar champion who has toured with musicians like Jerry Douglas and Liz Meyer and, most recently, he spent 12 years on the road with David Bromberg and has performed and recorded with many others, including his own band called Good Medicine.  Mark has also produced a number of solo albums over the years and is recognized as one of the heroes of flatpicking guitar.

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.

SA Redbacks assistant, Mark Cosgrove joined the show after the sides loss to Queensland in the Shield over the weekend. The team discussed the states upcoming crop of talent, batting depth, Jake Fraser McGurk and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Menzel & David Wildy wrapped the sporting weekend and discussed which AFL sides are hot, and which are not in the pre-season. Menz ranked the Crows and Port players under 24. Mark Cosgrove from the Redbacks wrapped their Shield loss to Queensland and Dan gave his season previews for the Eagles, Kangaroos and Hawks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SA Redbacks coach, Mark Cosgrove joined Kymbo & the Rooch ahead of tomorrow's Sheffield Shield match against Queensland. And he had some very positive word about a potential future star of the game, Jake Fraser-McGurk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kymbo & the Rooch were joined by Kane Cornes, Redbacks coach, Mark Cosgrove and Adelaide 36ers point guard, Jason Cadee. Plus, Matthew Nicks' new deal at the Crows could be announced earlier than expected! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read share their enthusiasm and thoughts for just a small selection of the films coming up this month at Watershed.There's searching for identity in Return to Seoul – a striking film for its incredible lead performance, for its subject of place and belonging and for its beautiful cinematic style. Influenced by this Steph talks about the season of Sunday films she has curated throughout May. All are intriguing tales of identity formed rather than found, rather than traditional coming of age films.Mark enthuses about being drawn into the different relationships, full of light and warmth, in Tunisian film Under the Fig Trees. A tale of camaraderie, sisterhood and the sharing of stories in a setting of implicit sensuality and naturalness.Then there is The Eight Mountains, an emotional journey of friendship and reconciliation with the past, in the beautiful and idylic Italian Alps.Followed by their thoughts on two restored Scorsese classics Raging Bull and Age of Innocence, highly recommended not only for their power and influence but also for the incredible work of legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker. All rounded off by Mark and Steph's joyous reflections on the 40 year old classic Scottish film, Local Hero.May is a month with much to look forward to.

Watershed's Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read find plenty of films to think about in March – new films from Chile, the Oscar season ahead and the first ever Oscar nominated film from Bhutan.

Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read share thoughts on a range of different types of cinema coming to Watershed in January - from celebrations of film to art activism.First up is mind-bending Cornish folk horror tale Enys Men which traverses isolation, memories, dreams, and fears – gorgeously shot on grainy 16mm film. Inspired by this Mark and Steph discuss their season of films A Woman on the Verge, wich locates Enys Men in a rich cinematic line of emotional journeys leading to transformation, redemption or renewal.Mark and Steph share a unanimous, general dislike of syrupy and emotionally manipulative Steven Spielberg. Yet for the first time for Mark, Spielberg's semi-autobiographical story of a young aspiring filmmaker, The Fabelmans, leaves him very much enjoying a really honest, engaging and personal story of cinema.And lastly up for discussion in this month's podcast is the stirring portrait of artist and activist Nan Goldin, focusing on her fight against Big Pharma. Mark and Steph talk about the unexpected insight into the artists own experience the film offers and the bigger question of patronage for the arts and the gallery as a space for activism and political debate.

This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by colleagues to share their filmic highlights of 2022 and to reflect on a strange year in cinema – the first full year since lock down.Mark is joined by Steph Read, Watershed Cinema Assistant and MA Curation student, and Film Programmer and Campaigns Manager Ti Singh.

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

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Sean Wilson, Filmic Season Curator and writer, take a deep dive into film soundtracks throughout history.Filmic is a season of 5 films curated by Sean to illustrate the ever changing landscape of film scores, they discuss the upcoming season and Sean's recently released book, The Sound of Cinema: Hollywood Film Music from the Silents to the Present.Mark and Sean delve into the work from Alex North on A Street Car Named Desire, Bernard Herrmann's infamous strings for Psycho, music legend Bob Dylan starring and scoring Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Jerry Goldsmith's chilling, Oscar winning score for The Omen and John Williams triumphant revival of the orchestral score for Superman.

This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Steph Read, UWE MA Curation placement, as they look forward to the program of films at Watershed over the coming month.They discuss perspective in cinema and the presentation of childhood in Norwegian supernatural thriller The Innocents by Eskil Vogt. Also, with Doc'n Roll returning to Bristol this month they review the music documentaries screening for the festival including artists like; Karen Dalton, The Triffids and Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers how film-watching changes have accelerated with the advent of covid.He shares his thoughts on the prevalence of the blockbuster and its now predictable model of following success with repetition. And how independent cinema offers a real alternative, with Watershed championing film originality and diversity from across the world.

This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema curator, and Zoe Rasbash, Watershed's Environmental Emergencies Action Researcher look forward to Green Screen, coming to Watershed at the end of March.Green Screen is a day of free short films, plus a panel discussion and a family workshop – all of which celebrate filmmakers and their work to explore cutting edge climate research.Zoe shares her Lilith Archive film project and they discuss the importance of arts in making change and the role of culture in changing how we think and act, plus approaches to creating action. They also talk about how Green Screen might offer insight and positivity in what can often feel like an overwhelming disaster. And how through film and events there is the opportunity to come together and share creativity and thinking.

This month Dr Rayna Denison, Professor in Film and Digital Arts Bristol University, joins Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, to talk about Japanese Cinema.As they look forward to the upcoming Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme they share thoughts on the long time flourishing and prolific Japanese cinema industry, its funding and how the market for film works in Japan, plus current influences and genres.But most of all they discuss the highlights screening at Watershed this month; including psychological crime drama First Love, the absolutely gorgeous to look at Spaghetti Code Love and the pressures of daily life face young people and Shrieking in the Rain's journey into the dark underbelly of the Japanese film industry

A brief note from Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator, ahead of January 2022

What do I need and what will it cost to run a myopia management practice? Labs and Lenses: How do I figure out what labs and lenses to work with? Do I need a fitting set? Should I design my own lenses? Equipment: What equipment is really needed? What does it cost and how do you get the most out of it? Should I measure axial length? Costs: How do you figure the costs into your myopia management practice in terms of # of patients, types of cases, and dedicated time slots. Do you offer a myopia management consultation free of charge? Fees: How do you come up with a fee structure for myopia management?JOIN US LIVE FOR EACH EPISODE: https://aaomc.site-ym.com/page/knownspodcastWATCH THE REPLAY ON THE AAOMC YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUInLTRlOCgmbG_d8JQYxJQAAOMC SELECT SERIES ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aaomc-select-series/id1586670887Dr. Marie Homa-Palladino is a member and fellow of the AAOMC who has practiced in many settings and alongside world renowned ophthalmologists. Currently you can find her in Pennsylvania specializing in pediatric myopia management. Dr. Sheila Morrison is a native of Alberta, Canada. She served as faculty at the University of Houston College of Optometry as a clinical instructor for the myopia control clinic, and as chief of the Contact Lens and Cornea clinic at the University Eye Institute. Dr. Leah Johnson is one of the industry's top global leaders in myopia management. She works with key opinion leaders and eye care professionals to bring a better understanding of myopia and treatment options that enhance patient outcomes and care.In 2021 she was recognized by Vision Monday as one of the Most Influential Women in the Optical Industry. Mark Cosgrove is considered an expert in the field of orthokeratology by his peers. For 25 years, Mark has trained thousands of ECP's globally on how to achieve success utilizing ortho-k in myopia management and has documented success with some of the most visually challenging patients.

What do I need and what will it cost to run a myopia management practice? Labs and Lenses: How do I figure out what labs and lenses to work with? Do I need a fitting set? Should I design my own lenses? Equipment: What equipment is really needed? What does it cost and how do you get the most out of it? Should I measure axial length? Costs: How do you figure the costs into your myopia management practice in terms of # of patients, types of cases, and dedicated time slots. Do you offer a myopia management consultation free of charge? Fees: How do you come up with a fee structure for myopia management? JOIN US LIVE FOR EACH EPISODE: https://aaomc.site-ym.com/page/knownspodcastWATCH THE REPLAY ON THE AAOMC YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUInLTRlOCgmbG_d8JQYxJQAAOMC SELECT SERIES ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aaomc-select-series/id1586670887Dr. Marie Homa-Palladino is a member and fellow of the AAOMC who has practiced in many settings and alongside world renowned ophthalmologists. Currently you can find her in Pennsylvania specializing in pediatric myopia management. Dr. Sheila Morrison is a native of Alberta, Canada. She served as faculty at the University of Houston College of Optometry as a clinical instructor for the myopia control clinic, and as chief of the Contact Lens and Cornea clinic at the University Eye Institute. Dr. Leah Johnson is one of the industry's top global leaders in myopia management. She works with key opinion leaders and eye care professionals to bring a better understanding of myopia and treatment options that enhance patient outcomes and care.In 2021 she was recognized by Vision Monday as one of the Most Influential Women in the Optical Industry. Mark Cosgrove is considered an expert in the field of orthokeratology by his peers. For 25 years, Mark has trained thousands of ECP's globally on how to achieve success utilizing ortho-k in myopia management and has documented success with some of the most visually challenging patients.

For the last podcast of the year, Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, shares his own experience of cinema – both personal and professional.As part of a book of essays, Opening Up the Magic Box, Mark was asked to reflect on the role of cinema in his life. Mark's essay, A Life Cinematic – the Early Years, presents a 10-year-old from the fringes of Glasgow enamoured with Cagney, Bogart and Wayne to the student years, and a first taste of selecting a film for others to see.

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November's Cinema Podcast celebrates a return of audiences to the cinema, renewed partnerships through the fantastic Afrika Eye film festival, and a season of films and discussions challenging Myth and Masculinity in the Western. Mark Cosgrove is joined by Annie Mentor, director Afrika Eye Festival and Lola McKinnon MA Curation Student.Annie shares what Afrika Eye Film Festival is and what impassions it to explore multi-faceted Africa through film, culture and collaboration. Plus all the highlights from a rich programme of stories; of lives lived and lives imagined, created by remarkable filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora. Coming to Watershed 12-14 November.As part of her placement Lola shares a little about life as an MA Curation Student, but more about her season exploring the new generation of female filmmakers from all over the world challenging the masculinist mythologies of the Western. And breathing new life into a genre synonymous with fistfights, gun-slingin' and tough, white men.

In October's cinema podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Lisa Harewood and Jonathan Ali from The Twelve30 Collective who showcases classic and contemporary films from the Caribbean and its diaspora. They discuss the Caribbean film scene and the tensions between looking to Hollywood and foregrounding the territories' own identities, the lack of independent cinemas and the challenges of screening films across multiple countries.Twelve30 Collective are also distributors of this month's screening of long-lost Jamaican set film No Place Like Home. Lisa and Ali share the films amazing backstory of its devastating loss for more than two decades; and its powerful, lightly fictionalised window into rural Jamaica of 50 years ago.

With screenings at Watershed now back up to 6 days a week a look ahead at September highlights coming up.Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks to Gary Thompson, founder of Cables & Cameras, about their Watershed takeover weekend at the end of September – Cables & Cameras Presents:INSPIRED. The weekend features a whole range of conversations, screenings and events that will explore Black/POC culture and talent both in front of and behind the camera.Mark is also joined by Adam Murray from Bristol Black Horror Club. Adam talks about his positive experiences of working with Gary and Cables & Cameras, his upcoming illustrated talk on the history of Black representationin horror films and behind the camera and why he is looking forward to Cables & Cameras Presents:INSPIRED.

A quick and summery August podcast from Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator introducing the upcoming The World of Wong Kar Wai season.Mark introduces the seasons and shares how the films have been restored and reworked; and celebrates finally being able to re-introduce audiences to the lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism of Wong Kar Wai's contemporary cinema.

In June's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, chats with Ti Singh founder of Bristol Bad Film Club, author of Born To Be Bad: Talking to the greatest villains in action cinema and lead on the BFI Film Audience Network's New Release Strategy, based at Watershed.They talk about what makes a film so bad it's good, how baddies in films reveal so much about action cinema and Ti's work supporting independent films to reach a wider audience.And to finish they share their excitement for the great films coming up over June at Watershed, and look forward to an unexpectedly busy summer of independent cinema.

In May's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Dave Taylor of legendary Bristol video shop 20th Century Flicks.They reflect on the year that forgot cinema, the autobiographical viewing habits of the shop's customers through lockdown, and a history of the shop – it opened in the same year as Watershed in 1982 – and how it has managed to endure.They also look forward to the return of cinema screenings in May at Watershed, and the shop's screening rooms, and the clutch of superb Oscar winning independent films arriving on the big screen very, very soon.

For April's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by film & music critic and broadcaster Adam Murray.They discuss Adam's love of horror and research for a season of horror films, hopefully screening at Watershed this Autumn, exploring identity and fitting-in – and their relationship to Black representation and the Black experience. Adam also shares the two films he is looking forward to seeing at Watershed when it re-opens in May.

In this episode Neil talks to Mark Cosgrove, cinema curator at The Watershed in Bristol and Dr Francesco Tava, senior lecturer in philosophy at University of West England (UWE), about their current season of colonial cinema and discussions, Thought in Action, presented in partnership with MUBI. Their conversation covers the positives of online events in the pandemic including accessing filmmakers and panel members from all over the world as well as welcoming diverse audiences, the hybrid future of cinema events and the value of meeting communally to discuss movies, and the importance of the colonial conversation being raised at this moment in history and Bristol’s prominence in that conversation. Elsewhere Dario and Neil discuss audiences and the desire to be back in cinemas hosting live podcast events where movies are shared and discussed, they pay tribute to Yaphet Kotto, discuss the Masters of Cinema release of the 1967 Soviet folk horror, Viy, and touch on the Oscar nominations momentarily to celebrate the double nomination of the documentary Collective, in the wake of episode 117 and its focus on Romanian cinema. For more information on the Thought in Action/Conversations about Cinema season visit here. Upcoming panel discussion events: Zombi Child (dir. Bonelli, 2019) - Thursday March 25, 18.00 - 19.00 Apiyemiyekî? (dir. Vaz, 2020) - Thursday April 15, 18.00 - 19.00 Bacurau (dir. Dornelles and Mendoça Filho, 2019) - Thursday April 29, 18.00 - 19.00   You can listen to The Cinematologists for free, wherever you listen to podcasts: click here to follow. We also produce an extensive monthly newsletter and bonus/extended content that is available on our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/cinematologists. You can become a member for only $2.50. We also really appreciate any reviews you might write about the show (please send us what you have written and we'll mention it) and sharing on Social Media is the lifeblood of the podcast so please do that if you enjoy the show.   Music Credits: ‘Theme from The Cinematologists’ Written and produced by Gwenno Saunders. Mixed by Rhys Edwards. Drums, bass & guitar by Rhys Edwards. All synths by Gwenno Saunders. Published by Downtown Music Publishing.

This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by historian, writer and curator Edson Burton and Matchbox Cine producer Megan Mitchell.They share how their cultural consumption has changed and adapted over the last several months, and some of the things they have been enjoying and found themselves unexpectedly watching – New York Independent cinema, Tom Cruise films, TickTock Film and the Small Axe series.

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. He shares films to look forward that would have screened in 2020 and a hint of plans and optimism in the air for 2021.

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.This month 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 experience, they conclude there was still plenty to enjoy in film in 2020.

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 reflective and cinematic Rialto in which a middle-aged family man undergoes a crisis of masculinity and sexuality; and the inspirational force of nature that is Greta Thunberg and the impact that her actions have not only on the world but on her personally, intimately portrayed in documentary I Am Greta.But there's more as the BFI London Film Festival comes to Watershed this month with 11 exclusive previews from the Festival and a programme of both cinema and virtual screenings, making the festival for the first time simultaneously available UK wide. Tara and Mark share their must-sees from the programme and acknowledge the choices and new ways of watching cinema that this new type of hybrid festival brings.

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 quality.

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.

Mark Cosgrove joins the Cricket Badger to talk about his life and times in cricket. The South Australian has scored almost 15 thousand first-class runs at over 40 and his record against the white ball aint too shabby either. He played 3 ODIs for Australia in 2006 and most cricketers with his record would have more internationals under their belt. Cozzie chats to James Buttler about being an overseas player with Glamorgan and Leicestershire, his tag of 'Baby Boof' when a youngster, his love of the sport, how scoring runs and not looking pretty his his job and plenty more as he takes on the Cricket Badger 20 Questions. A terrific guest on this edition of the Podcast! The Podcast is brought to you in association with TVSportsBlog.com (http://tvsportsblog.com/) . Thank you very much for listening and supporting the podcast!  Contact the show via Twitter on @cricket_badger or email us at cricketbadger@hotmail.com. If you'd like to advertise on the Podcast drop us a line and we will send you our list of very competitive rates.

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

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.

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.

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 in they way it tells female stories.Then they shine a light on Japan with highlights from the Japan Foundation season of films which search for happiness in Japanese society and prolific filmmakerTakashi Miike's brutal, bloody, and brilliantly over the top First Love.On to the fast fashion world of Greed starring Steve Coogan which Mark suggests could be called Carry on Capitalism – a laugh packed critique of capitalism, which still manages to pointedly highlight its inherent inequalities.They also recommend Mr Jones a story of journalism, truth and lies set in Stalin's Russia – a true story which influenced George Orwell to write Animal Farm.And finally there's Little Joe in which Thea and Mark find an unsettling, fascinating and though-provoking vision of a near future in which a new plant can lifts people's moods.

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 Lighthouse, Jo Jo Rabbit's brilliantly satirical exploration of nationalism and fascism and Armando Iannucci's Dickens with a contemporary sensibility, in the hilarious The Personal History of David Copperfield.

The final episode of 2019 is full of laughs and punting, plus James throws it back to Shane Warne’s hat-trick while the weird and wonderful Mark Cosgrove gets profiled.

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.

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 Festival which brings the very best environmentally themed films from around the world.Alongside all the festival fun Mark talks with MA Curating student Julia Ray about the value of being on placement at Watershed and We Are Here – a season of films and events she has put together that celebrate and portray positivity in Queer and LGBTQ+ communities.And to finish off Mark implores you to immerse yourself in Scorsese's latest masterpiece of power and control The Irishman.

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 joined by Dr Ruth Farrar, director of Shextreme Film Festival

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 – and look forward to a season of brunches celebrating London's Scala cinema where In Fabric Peter Strickland’s directorial voice was moulded.Mark recommends new documentary about the life of super talented Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona and shares his thoughts on the director Asif Kapadia's compelling storytelling, whilst gently urging you, even if you are not a sports fan, to go and see this film.And to finish Tara shares her enthusiasm for the cinematic treat that is the beautiful and moving Dirty God – a modern tale of a young woman piecing her life back together after an acid attack.

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 lights up your life with exciting cinema. Mark and Tara then look forward to Rafiki a ground breaking film about hidden love and the first Kenyan film to be selected for Cannes film festival.Finally ahead of a twelve film retrospective of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda through April and May they share what it is that makes his filmmaking so unique and look forward to some of the films screening at Watershed.

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.

David Bromberg has had two successful careers. One as an in-demand blues guitarist and master sideman for acts from the Eagles to Link Wray to Phoebe Snow, his crowd included Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Jerry Garcia. Then, in 1990, he stepped back " way back " and became a violin expert (he still has a thriving business selling and repairing instruments). He couldn't stay away for long and returned to the stage in 2002. On tour supporting his 2016 release, 'The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing but the Blues,' Bromberg and his band (Nate Grower - fiddle; Mark Cosgrove " mandolin, guitar; Josh Kanusky - drums; and Suavek Zaniesienko - bass) stopped by BeeHive Studios in Saranac Lake, New York for an in-studio performance and interview.