Mark Cosgrove
Engaging audiences in some of the finest cinematic visions and much more at Watershed, Bristol and beyond. Founder of Cinema Rediscovered, bringing great films back to the big screen since 2016. Ops my own.
- Been back on the Encounters programming - great to see so many excellent short films from SW/UK and further afield . Looking forward to the fest ……..
- After a brief hiatus, Encounters Film Festival is BACK 24-28 Sept for its landmark 30th edition on Bristol's harbourside & we can’t wait! Alumni include #DenisVilleneuve & #CharlotteWells ; watch this space for some connected rep happenings @wshed.bsky.social Get your pass at www.encounters.film!
- Trailer drop …….. identify the films ?!
- And we’re live with Early Bird passes on sale ……….. so thrilled to be opening with (and screening on 35mm) Julien Temple’s - much derided at the time - wildly ambitious Absolute Beginners now ripe for rediscovery with producer Stephen Woolley giving the inside story.
- Great review from @wendyide.bsky.social for Luara Carreira’s humanistic vision On Falling. It’s a small film and needs big support so get along to your indie cinema this week. On @wshed.bsky.social now. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
- Finally getting round to my first screening in the #berlinale75 brilliantly titled retrospective programme Wild, Weird, Bloody: German Genre Films of the 70s in the new #deutschekinemathek venue
- At #berlinale75 and just caught 1st film of day - Mickey 17 is a blast of a satire (more pointed given what is happening in US) Multiple Pattison’s and a Ruffalo are on great form.
- Great start to Chantal Akerman season @wshed.bsky.social with primer talk by @isstevens.bsky.social and screening of Akerman’s still fresh and provocative Je Tu Il Elle - season continues through Feb and March.
- Had the great pleasure/privilege to meet David Lynch. He was making lithographs in Paris. When asked what he liked about working in black and white he said in that distinctive “Jimmy Stewart from Mars” drawl “well, you know, the darker and deeper the black the more you understand the white.” RIP
- He’s Not Here season continues With God on His Side this Sunday followed by A Complete Unknown preview on Wednesday (17th) plus Dylan live music night in @wshed.bsky.social cafe/bar
- Lots to admire in Eggers’ restaging of Nosferatu - loved the filming and intense atmosphere of Hutter’s journey to, and encounter with, Count Orlok in his castle. But nothing matches the pathos, poetry and tragedy of Herzog and Kinski’s Nosferatu except perhaps the original 😂
