Film Review: The Artist “feels like a newly-discovered gem”
Tuesday 12th May 2020
A daring concept, beautifully presented, The Artist became the cinematic phenomenon of 2011. Working on the idea of a modern silent film, this was a project years in … Continue Reading
Border review – “An intense, dark fable”
Thursday 7th May 2020
Review by Lila Taylor
You can watch the film for a limited time on channel 4: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/border.
Border (2018) is Ali Abbasi’s intense, dark fable … Continue Reading
Justice is Served by Nick Remy Matthews
Friday 1st May 2020
Justice is a very special six year old with a passion for scams. With his seventh birthday fast approaching he comes up with an audacious plan: to get the penthouse … Continue Reading
More Than Stories by Anya Lewin
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
More than Stories is a film composed of three parts and made over 12 years, that has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in stories passed down … Continue Reading
Film Review: Rear Window
Tuesday 21st April 2020
Our reviewer Helen Tope revisits Hitchcock’s classic.
Sitting in Alfred Hitchcock’s creative high-point, Rear Window is a textbook thriller. While it doesn’t have the psychosexual drama of Vertigo, Rear … Continue Reading
Reclaim The Frame Events This Week – Misbehaviour and Laura Mulvey
Tuesday 21st April 2020
In their mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women, Reclaim The Frame have moved their activities online for now. There are two fantastic events coming up this … Continue Reading
Free films from Iris Prize LGBT Film Festival
Thursday 16th April 2020
Organisers of Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival have made three short films from the Iris archive available for free on their YouTube channel. The films are all directed by … Continue Reading
Reclaim The Frame Events This Week – The Perfect Candidate and Eye To Eye
Tuesday 14th April 2020
In their mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women, Reclaim The Frame have moved their activities online for now. There are two fantastic events coming up this … Continue Reading
On Missing The Cinema
Tuesday 14th April 2020
By Director and Film Programmer Anna Navas
Saturday the 14th March was the last day PAC was open to the public. It is barely a … Continue Reading
Double Indemnity Film Review
Thursday 9th April 2020
Our reviewer Helen Tope revisits the classic 1944 film noir.
Provocative and darkly glamorous, Double Indemnity is director Billy Wilder’s take on the film noir genre. Released in 1944, … Continue Reading
Womb by Amber Amare
Tuesday 7th April 2020
“If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask her about her mother and then listen carefully. – The more a daughter knows about the details … Continue Reading
From Spring Screening Days in London to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Friday 3rd April 2020
A blog post on the landscape of independent cinema right now, by PAC Director and Film Programmer, Anna Navas.
April 3, 2020: Exactly one month ago I was on the train … Continue Reading