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The film opens in beautifully lensed darkness then to our main character Ellen Hutter (dressed all in white, a clear metaphor for her actions as the heroine of the story) woken from her nightmares by a deep voice powerfully calling her. We follow as she walks to this … Continue Reading

Our wonderful staff and volunteers have taken our annual vote on our favourite films of 2024. 
Each of us voted for our top 3 films. Plymouth Arts Cinema screened 162 films this year, and we all have wide and varied tastes, so as usual we don’t have a lot of consensus!

The … Continue Reading

At the age of 75, director Pedro Almodovar is still breaking new ground. In The Room Next Door, we have his first full-length feature in English. Taking its lead from Sigrid Nunez’s novel, What Are You Going Through, the film sees two friends reunite after years apart. 

Ingrid (played … Continue Reading

The theme of time travel is perfect for filmmakers as the very process of editing allows you to manipulate the timeline of your story and characters, in the form of flashbacks or even flashforwards.

The Back to the Future trilogy, for example, weaves a story that takes us from 1985 to … Continue Reading

In approaching the reputation and legacy of modernist painter, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, film-maker Mark Cousins makes it clear that conventional story-telling will not do. A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things is a textural, emotive documentary of an artist he calls – and with good reason – a “forgotten visionary”.

Born … Continue Reading

If you are my age, dangerously close to 50, or a fan of the Prodigy – you’ll understand the correct response to the title of Jeremy Deller’s illustrated, hour long lecture, is: 

“Let’s go”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY87o9IZXWg&ab_channel=TheProdigy

As I previously said I am reasonably old, but not quite old enough to … Continue Reading

Remembrance interweaves the lives of several different characters, all of whom are sailors, as they await their departure to sea in the coming days. At the heart of the film is Plymouth, particularly Union Street, as we see the chaos and disorder that takes place in the pubs and clubs … Continue Reading