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Art Review: Everything Made Bronze

Wednesday 8th April 2015

Ellard and Johnstone’s Everything Made Bronze is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre until 10 May.

It is a very contemporary dilemma: how to take art from a passive experience … Continue Reading

Alzheimers on film: Still Alice.

Tuesday 24th March 2015

https://youtu.be/ZrXrZ5iiR0o

Emily Jones from the Alzheimer’s Society reviews Still Alice and the changing face of Alzheimer’s in our culture.

Still Alice powerfully captures the personal journey of dementia and it is rare to … Continue Reading

Film Review: Selma

Tuesday 17th March 2015

Review of Civil Rights Movement film Selma, showing in Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema from 20-26 March.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6t7vVTxaic

This past month has seen the 50th anniversary of the Selma-Montgomery marches, a landmark … Continue Reading

Artists in Empty Spaces

Wednesday 4th March 2015

By Vickie Fear

In February I was invited to take part in a panel discussion at Plymouth College of Art on the topic of artists accessing empty spaces in Plymouth. … Continue Reading

Fifty Shades of Grey: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Tuesday 24th February 2015

https://youtu.be/SfZWFDs0LxA

Plymouth Arts Centre film programmer Anna Navas considers issues of feminism, domestic abuse and freedom of speech in Fifty Shades of Grey.

Well, I have done it. I paid my money … Continue Reading

Preview: Tamar + Imperfect Cinema Orchestra

Wednesday 18th February 2015

Imperfect Cinema Orchestra will be performing a live soundtrack to Tamar, a 30 minute film commissioned by the River Tamar Project, at … Continue Reading

Art Review: Gideon Mendel ‘Drowning World’

Tuesday 17th February 2015

Gideon Mendel’s Drowning World is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre until 15 March 2015

The camera is a recording device that can capture the fleeting, bear witness and act as … Continue Reading

Film Review: Birdman

Tuesday 10th February 2015

https://youtu.be/uJfLoE6hanc

After announcing himself with Amores Perros in 2000, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel marked his transformation from darling of world cinema to respected Hollywood auteur. That film’s glacial pace and emotional … Continue Reading

Film Review: Leviathan

Tuesday 27th January 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oo7H25kirk

One of the most important films to come out of Russia in recent years, Leviathan is visually majestic, philosophically illuminating and hauntingly poignant. … Continue Reading

Review: London Arts Week 2014

Friday 16th January 2015

Thanks to a bursary from Plymouth Arts Centre’s Artist Support Network PAC Home Laura Hudson went to London to visit Frieze and the Other Art Fair on November 10, 2014…. Continue Reading

Review: The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

Friday 16th January 2015

This January Plymouth Arts Centre held a sold-out screening of The Battles of Coronel … Continue Reading

2015 Top Five Films

Tuesday 23rd December 2014

Plymouth Arts Centre Film Programmer Anna Navas selects her films of the year

I thought this … Continue Reading

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