Sounds From The Past: Classical Music on Film
Wednesday 25th January 2023
With Tár screening at Plymouth Arts Cinema this week, Helen Tope takes a deep dive into classical music in cinema.
Dramatic swathes of score, larger-than-life personalities – it’s … Continue Reading
Film Review: Empire of Light “explores the magic of the cinema”
Wednesday 25th January 2023
Cinema is the dark palace of dreams and imagination, a place of entertainment, escapism and enlightenment. You see the world and other worlds through different eyes.The novelist Virginia Woolf in … Continue Reading
Film Review: Lady Chatterley’s Lover – “exposes much more than flesh”
Tuesday 3rd January 2023
There are few books with such a reputation as D.H Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. It has become a byword for literary lasciviousness: the fiercely erotic affair between aristocrat … Continue Reading
Film Review: Emily – “charts how the Brontes became a literary phenomenon”
Tuesday 13th December 2022
Reframing the Emily Bronte story from a revisionist perspective, Frances O’Connor’s biopic steps away from the traditional adaptation and into a blend of truth and myth.
The film shapes the complex, … Continue Reading
Film Review: Neptune Frost – “authentic and genuinely inspiring”
Tuesday 13th December 2022
A truly innovative piece of film-making, the Afro-futurist musical Neptune Frost is daring and transgressive.
Pitched in Burundi, one of the world’s poorest nations, Neptune Frost conceives an alternate reality, a … Continue Reading
Electric Dreams: shock waves through the cinema exhibition sector
Thursday 3rd November 2022
The news announced earlier that Wolverhampton’s Light House Cinema is ‘to close doors for a final time today’ after more than 30 years of trading comes hot on the … Continue Reading
£4 Budget Ticket Price
Thursday 3rd November 2022
We are trialling a new £4 Budget ticket price for those Unwaged and on Low Income. You won’t be asked any questions if you choose this price point.
We recognise that … Continue Reading
Film Review: She Will – “magical, horrifying and mysterious”
Tuesday 1st November 2022
Introduced by Anna Navas, film programmer for the Plymouth Arts Cinema, with a Q&A with the producer Jessica Malik and the star of the film Alice Krige, She Will started … Continue Reading
Preview: French Film Festival 2022
Thursday 27th October 2022
This year welcomes the 30th anniversary edition of the French Film Festival, organised in partnership with Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and Screen Scotland, and is currently the only francophone film … Continue Reading
Film Review: Flux Gourmet – “check the ingredients before you swallow anything down…”
Wednesday 26th October 2022
An avant garde troupe is in residence at a manor house producing soundscapes from a mixture of blenders, knives and miked up bowls of … Continue Reading
Film Review: Mrs Harris Goes To Paris – “two hours of welcome whimsy”
Tuesday 18th October 2022
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is as much of a confection as the dresses at its centre.
Every moment is garlanded with a level of cliche which would be … Continue Reading
Film Review: Eric Ravilious – Drawn To War
Wednesday 12th October 2022
In the year that marks the 80th anniversary of his death, the documentary Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War examines the life and legacy of the artist.
Painter, engraver and … Continue Reading