October is gearing up to be a bumper month at the Watershed. Untouchable, the second highest grossing French film of all time, opened yesterday and continues until at least October 11, while the Sunday brunch screenings feature some of the favourite movies of acclaimed film writer David Thomson: Kiss Me Deadly, Breathless, The Truman Show and Blue Velvet.
Thomson appears in person on October 3 in a Festival of Ideas event to promote his new book, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did To Us.
One special event is a double-bill of cult classics from Japanese director and Godzilla creator Ishiro Honda, Matango and King Kong, followed by Hellfire DJs in the bar.
Another one-off in October are two evenings of screenings for the Jarman Award, in association with Film London. The award, inspired by David Jarman, recognises UK artist-filmmakers “whose work… resists convention and stretches boundaries”.
Many of the events at the Wildscreen Fringe Festival between October October 13 and 26 take place at the Watershed, including several documentaries made by Bristol’s world famous BBC Natural History Unit.
And there are more new releases, highlights of which include Liberal Arts, written, directed and starring Josh Radnor as an uninspired 30-something New Yorker who returns to his old university where he meets a precocious and captivating student; and On the Road, a long-awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries).
Beasts of the Southern Wild (below), set in a mythical Louisiana swamp and, won both the Camera d’Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
