In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Michael Haneke's extraordinary and moving, Palme D'Or winning, Amour – coming to Watershed this month. For Mark Amour raises questions more broadly around perfection in art and explores why for him Haneke's film represents artistic perfection in cinema. Also discussed is the upcoming The Master, dubbed by some as 'a new American classic', which Mark looks forward to assessing in terms of his contention that a certain strand of American cinema is only concerned with itself, is self-referential and isolated.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on profiling, promoting and platforming new talent at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, plus his pick of Future Encounters. On finding talent away from the centre through Watershed's FilmWorks programme, and its aim to develop regional based filmmakers. Plus Award-winning film industry professionals sharing skills and experiences at Encounters Festival 2012 – now available on DShed.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, its move to September and its relationship to Bristol; Watershed's work with artists and technology which explores how we experience cities; and a certain tendency in some American cinema for what Mark perceives as 'self-obsessed amoral insularity'.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on the volume of film choices and the impact on cinema, whether traditional film exhibition structures are the best way to present new work, a new documentary on dissident chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, old age on the big screen and Watershed's Creative Cinema Summer School.

In this episode: An extended podcast with Mark Cosgrove in conversation with writer, author and broadcaster David Goldblatt. Mark and David discuss the connections between sport and culture plus Watershed's RELAYS programme of work, which presents a season of films and has worked with young people to explore sport, media and culture as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove reflects on Michael Haneke's Cannes 2012 winning film Amour, Ulrich Seidl's latest film Paradise: Lost and the changing nature of the cinema experience. Plus an overview of Watershed's 30th Birthday celebrations on June 7th.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Mark Cousins' The Story of Film, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Cannes International Film Festival 2012 and Ulrich Seidl.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on making decisions on which films to show at Watershed, Sight & Sound's Greatest Films poll and films this month at Watershed.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on the disquieting and disturbing Austrian film Michael, the Dardenne Brothers' emotionally rich and heart-warming The Kid with a Bike, and the phenomenon of crowdfunding new filmmaking.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove and Phil Johnson, St. George's contemporary music curator, on Filmic a new festival of film and music that celebrates the enduring relationship between music and moving image.