Tag: Watershed
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Arrietty, review
Be quiet and loving and fearless. – Buddha Both bravery and cowardice need fear to exist. When you are fearless you are somewhere outside of this concept, like a five month old baby about to roll off the bed without understanding that there is any danger. You don’t have to overcome fear – bravery – […]
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The Tree of Life, reflections
I saw the Tree of Life at a baby friendly cinema session and I watched it while either holding, feeding or walking my daughter up and down the aisle. Also while crying because the movie made me weep. But then it’s easy to pull the heart strings of someone who has just had a baby. […]
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Watershed chief backs away from film ban fight
The British Board of Film Classification has been in the news these past few daysafter banning the film Human Centipede II. Apparently no amount of footage could be cut to make the film suitable for any classification so it can not be seen or distributed in the UK legally. The original movie is about a surgeon […]
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Honeymooner, a reflection
For a movie that begins with the line ‘no one should be alone on their wedding day’, Honeymooner is spectacularly uplifting and fun. Filmed on a £45,000 budget it takes director, Col Spector’s, script, some brilliant acting and intersperses it all around the pubs and pretty locations in Camden Town. The giggles start early when […]
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Blue Valentine, Already Broken
A Thai Zen master is asked about his cup, perched precariously on the edge of a shelf, and why he doesn’t keep it safer. He replies that the cup is already broken. He drinks from it and enjoys it but when the wind knocks it over he says ‘of course’, he had already let it […]
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Pete Postlethwaite, Remembered In Bristol
Pete Postlethwaite, 64, died in hospital in Shropshire yesterday and the first thing that came to mind was the Watershed, Bristol’s independent cinema. The actor, famous for movies such as the Usual Suspects, Brassed Off and In the Name Of The Father, had his name dedicated on one of the chairs there. I knew all […]
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The King’s Speech, how Australia saved the day
The King’s Speech was originally written as a two-man play and as such would probably still be brilliant. The two men are Colin Firth as Bertie, the future King George VI, and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist with unusual methods. The characters are well written with insightful and witty dialogue that […]
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NaNoWriMo, The Bristol Story
NaNo is short for National November Writing Month and once a year, for thirty days, a gang, a group, a motley crew if you will, of Bristolian and Bath writers gather and chat, both physically and virtually, about writing,. This year we have two Municipal Liaisons who take responsibility for organising our meetings and writing […]
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Watershed: Wildscreen Festival
The Watershed will be host to the Wildscreen Festival from Saturday 09 to Sunday 17 October. While others are sitting in the same room as Simon Pegg, Derren Brown, Guillermo del Toro and Michael Caine in Cheltenham, you could be admiring little creatures and environmental delights in central Bristol. The festival provides the chance to […]
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Bad Lieutenant, a reflection
New Orleans, Louisiana: post-Katrina. Lieutenant Terence McDonagh, played by Nicholas Cage, walks in to a house already occupied by policemen and sheet covered bodies on the ground. He passes his colleague, Stevie Pruit, played by Val Kilmer, who updates him on the situation. Five murders, execution style. Pruit says don’t look. Terence lifts up the […]
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