Released 21st August 2009 @ Showcase De Lux, Bristol

After over ten years on the drawing board but only 9 months in the making, we finally have the finished product of the script Tarantino has been talking up for well over a decade, and which was originally touted as his follow up to Jackie Brown. Inglorious Basterds has always been the one which Tarantino aficionados considered would save his somewhat waning career and, to a certain extent, they were right.
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Showing between Friday 31st July and Thursday 6th August 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

Duncan Jones’ feature-length directoral debut, Moon, is a superb psychological thriller. Sam Rockwell shines as Sam Bell, a worker on a one-man mining base who is alone for 3 years on the dark side of the moon. As he nears the last few weeks of his contract on the base, Sam’s long-term loneliness and depression starts to show and his health and mental stability rapidly deteriorates. Desperately clinging to the thought of returning to his wife and young daughter, Sam encounters what appears to be a clone of himself.
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Showing between Friday 24th July and Thursday 4th August 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

Since critics have been disgusted by Lars Von Trier’s new film, Antichrist, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there has been a continued hype and ongoing dispute about the film’s horrifying visuals and their necessity.
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Showing between Friday 17th until Thursday 30th July 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

A kiss can be a wonderful whisper between two lovers, a horrible rape of a person’s security or an awkward unrequited gesture. A kiss in all its fantasy has the ability to provide a momentary escape from real life, which is what the film, Kisses, imposes, not only on its audience but on its characters as the two leads exchange their dull lives in an Irish council estate for a colourful runaway adventure. This Irish comedy written and directed by Lance Daly is a wonderful exploration of escape and how to sustain it in a city riddled with traps.
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12-noon Sunday 7th, Sunday 14th, Sunday 21st and Sunday 28th June 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

Spend your June Sundays with 007 himself at the Watershed with this special season of classic James Bond films fortified by a delicious brunch in the Café/Bar before the screening. The four 007 films have been digitally restored frame by frame to celebrate the centenary of legendary Bond producer Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s birth. This is Bond as you have never seen him before – gloriously restored and presented as originally intended: on the big screen.
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Screening between Friday 5th and Thursday 18th June 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

Playing with themes of romance, love and the endurable differences of the family, Anything For Her is not your usual summertime flick. Using a nail-biting narrative, first time director Fred Cavaye explores the disintegration of the perfect family by thrusting them into an unwanted nightmare where they will never be able to live ‘perfectly’ again.
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Screening between Friday 15th and Thursday 28th May 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

“There are 13 billion people in the world – can you even start to comprehend how many that is? – and none of them are an extra, each is the lead in their own story.” This is the fundamental idea behind Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, the writer of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
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Screening between Friday 24th and Thursday 30th April 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

Encounters At The End Of The World is saturated in knowledge and rich in beauty. Mapping the icy adventures of the people of Antarctica, director/narrator Werner Herzog plunges his audience into that alien place whose horizons seem never ending. A series of beautiful shots seem to suggest some kind of surrealism, however, unlike the CGI work of the Hollywood whores, Herzog successfully narrates an authentic experience captured honestly.
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Screening from Friday 17th until Thursday 30th April 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

This razor sharp political satire is without doubt the best British comedy in years. As the US and UK both start politically gearing up for war in the Middle East, a hapless British cabinet minister is dragged to Washington DC to be waved around as a pawn for both the pro-war and anti-war camps – it all just depends on the spin!

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Screening from Friday 10th until Thursday 23rd April 2009 @ Watershed, Bristol

You may recognise the name Tony Manero as John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever but after watching Pablo Larraín’s movie, the name becomes associated with a selfish illusion, existing upon the protagonist’s yearnings to become ‘The Tony Manero’.

Despite a slight resemblance to Leonard Cohen, anti-hero Raúl (Alfredo Castro) is one of the most unlikeable leads in the history of art house cinema. His obsession with Saturday Night Fever seems somewhat absurd but when it is framed against the backdrop of Augusto Pinochet’s oppressive regime in 1978 Chile, the harsh reality sucks away any humour as a large gritty art house straw would.
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