Join Watershedâs new panel discussions
By Safiya Bashir, Monday Feb 22, 2021
Although cinemas may remain closed, the Watershed has shared exciting plans to continue a shared viewing experience through their partnership with viewing platform MUBI and UWE Bristol.
Through a series of events called Conversations About Cinema – Thought in Action, viewers will be invited to watch the film online via MUBI and to join the virtual panel of experts.
The first panel discussion will be around Gillo Pontecorvo’s
The Battle of Algiers. The live panel will be hosted on February 25 and will be joined by Francesco Tava, senior lecturer in Philosophy at UWE Bristol, historian Julieaota Chinchilla from the University of Buenos Aires, who specialises in anti-colonial struggles in Northern African history, and Lucia Salas, a film critic, curator and filmmaker.
10. Tenet
One of 2020’s most hotly anticipated films from hit-or-miss heavyweight Christopher Nolan was another gimmicky sci-fi affair, this time a convoluted “time inversion” thriller that, while lacking in the cerebral thrills of his finest work (The Prestige), presented a wealth of stunning location photography and a number of stirring action set pieces that played to the filmmaker’s strengths as a visual storyteller, commanding a large budget and putting all that oversized excitement front and center, for all to see.
It’s a shame that Nolan’s glib dialogue and placeholder characters overpopulate this tale (Clémence Poésy exists wholly to deliver exposition, Kenneth Branagh’s cliché-spewing Russian baddie is a one-note joke, etc), but everyone is sporting such fabulously tailored and very expensive looking suits, that Nolan largely gets away with his smoke and mirrors espionage yarn.
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Welcome to the annual best of the year movie lists - taking place of the
Month at the Movies article for December, as a lot of these films I did actually watch last month for the first time in my end of year catchup. I ve seen a lot of great movies in 2020 and whilst it may have been the smart thing to cut down this list, in a year with so little else going for it, one of the best things about this year has been the wide quality of consistently great movies that we ve had over the course of 2020. In a year so good that I could quite happily have upped this list to 60 films (you ll notice that excellent blockbusters,
The 10 Best Films of 2020, Now Available to Stream Critic Jason Shawhan rounds up his favorites of the year, from
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As a lead-up to this year’s installment of the
Scene s annual Jim Ridley Memorial Film Poll coming in print and online Jan. 14 here’s my own personal Best Of for the cinema of 2020, as well as where they can be streamed, rented or bought. So many things can be said about 2020, most of them unpalatable to delicate sensibilities. But despite major studio release plans getting scuttled, dumped or punted ahead to 2021, it has been a superb year for film. Dig in and enjoy it’s still safe to do so.
The Best Cinematography of 2020
December 22, 2020
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As we continue our year-end coverage, one aspect we must highlight is, indeed, cinematography. From talented newcomers to seasoned professionals, we’ve rounded up the examples that have most impressed us this year. Check out our rundown below.
An Easy Girl (Georges Lechaptois)
The French Riviera is the fitting location for this tale of sexual discovery and class criticism. Georges Lechaptois’ frames are gorgeous not just because of the landscape––we have reoccurring overhead shots of the crystal-blue tides rustling against the beach where characters lay––but the juxtaposition of the quiet life out on the sea. The sun-soaked vistas at lunch are as lively as the quiet, sensuous nights the lovers spend in their dimly