The Newcomers at Watershed
The Newcomers at Watershed in Bristol, See official event dates, Check official times, at Watershed. Before John Boorman went to Hollywood to make the neo-noir cult...
Before John Boorman went to Hollywood to make the neo-noir cult classic Point Blank, he worked for BBC Bristol making documentaries and docudramas. This little-known period of his life and work is ripe for rediscovery. In 1964, Boorman helped launch the new BBC2 with a six-part series about Bristol. The Newcomers presents a unique view of the city in the early 1960s - a time of great social, cultural, political and economic change. This series now stands as a kind of filmic time capsule of the city, offering a window into its cultural and intellectual scene. It is centred around the lives of Alison Kennedy, who came to Bristol as a student, and Anthony Smith (who later took the pen name A.C.H. Smith), who came to work for the Bristol Post and then Western Daily Press. They met by chance, married, and Bristol became their home, with this...
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- Watershed
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- 1 Canons Road, Bristol, BS1 5TX
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