Watershed Podcast

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...

In this month's podcast Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Cinema Producer Thea Berry look ahead to a packed month with plenty to get your eyes and ears into it. March sees the start of Watershed's two month cinematic celebration Filmic. In this podcast Mark and Thea share insights, stories and anecdotes on the inextricable link between film and music through Filmic's two seasons of upcomi...

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 goo...

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...

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 F...

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...

Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Watershed Cinema Producer Thea Berry are joined by Encounters Film Festival director Rich Warren and Come the Revolution curator Liz Chege. Rich and Mark discuss how Encounters all started, the enduring appeal and popularity of short film and what to expect at this year's festival. Liz and Mark discuss The Last Tree and its themes, a unique Nigerian persp...

Rife Magazine, representation on screen, Almodovar's latest, a cinematic Cornish treat and French summer holidays all feature in a look ahead to August in film at Watershed. Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove is joined by Asmaa Jama from Rife magazine.

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,...

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...

This month Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Campaigns Manager Ti Singh focus on acclaimed French director Claire Denis' first english language science fiction film High Life. They discuss how the film explores the human condition, isolation and incarceration and talk about an accompanying season Lost in Space, which asks – what happens to humanity when you remove it from its context? Tara & Ti a...

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-...

Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) share thoughts and insights on photographer turned filmmaker Richard Billingham's superb portrait of deprived 1980s Birmingham family life Ray & Liz; Out of Blue Carol Morley's unmissable adaptation of a Martin Amis novel; plus Swedish outsider, genre defying Border. In the second half of this extended podcast...

The focus this month is on filmmaker Barry Jenkins and his captivating new film If Beale Street Could Talk. Watershed Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove share their thoughts on what makes Barry Jenkins such a brilliant director and extraordinary visual filmmaker. They also share insight into Jenkins' key influences and his previous work as part of a short accompa...

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 l...

Reflecting on the 2018 programme Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer, celebrate their Top 5 Films of the year and talk about the films that have stayed with them till the end of 2018.

November's Cinema podcast highlights just a few of this month's much anticipated new releases and a season of playful reflections on what it means to be a witch in film. This month Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) are joined by MA Curation student Thea Berry to talk about Reclaiming the Witch. This season of films explores all manner of sorceress-...

Watershed's Cinema Podcast for October highlights two films that are trying to make sense of Europe's recent past, but in very different ways. Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Tara Judah (Watershed Cinema Producer) focus on new film Utøya – a Norwegian, real-time recreation of the horrific attack by armed right-wing extremist Anders Breivik on 500 teenagers at a summer camp, that ultim...

Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Cinema Producer Tara Judah share their highlights and must see films this September at Watershed. They discuss the absorbing and sometimes confounding blurring of fact and fiction in three fantastic new films - The Rider, Skate Kitchen and Matangi/Maya/MIA. Enfant terrible and arch provocateur Gaspar Noe's new film Climax takes Mark completely by surprise, despite...

August brings an embarrassment of cinematic riches gathered together under the broad headline of seriously playful, or indeed playfully serious, filmmaking. In this month's podcast Watershed's Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove revel in the highly inventive and unabashedly feminine 60 year filmmaking history of Agnes Varda, look forward to a preview of Spike Lee's latest f...

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 m...

Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove discuss some of their June highlights in cinema at Watershed. Their picks include a film on the early life of a serial killer that they initially wondered why anyone would want to watch, a reissued classic that is still the only film by a female director to have won the Palme d'Or and a 200 year celebration of an archetypal monster.

Introducing some of the highlights in film coming up at Watershed this month – from the stylistic and outrageously bloody retribution of Revenge; the mesmeric and satirical post-colonial world of Zama; to our cinematic retrospective of revolutionary times fifty years ago. May's podcast introduces Watershed's new Cinema Producer Tara Judah in conversation with Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove to bring...