Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Award Winning Independent Cinema
Film Review: “Everybody in the Place” – Jeremy Deller
Thursday 10th October 2024
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 – “A film that will mean a lot to anybody from Plymouth”
Tuesday 1st October 2024
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
Film Review: Starve Acre – “instils an ancient fear”
Tuesday 24th September 2024
Five-year-old Owen lives on a remote farm on the Yorkshire moors, where he hears a strange whistling noise and begins to act in an odd fashion. His archaeologist father is impressed that he has collected the bones of a hare from the grounds of their property and that he might be … Continue Reading
Meet Ariel, Marcel, Joy and Bastian – the summer’s films introduced.
Tuesday 30th July 2024
By Noah Bridle
The Little Mermaid (PG)
Wednesday 31st July, 11am
Wednesday 7th August, 2:30pm
Disney’s live-action remake of the animation classic The Little Mermaid follows Ariel, the strongest daughter of King Triton, as she searches for what could … Continue Reading
Film Review: Freud’s Last Session – “Anthony Hopkins plays a grumpy yet still sharp-minded Freud”
Tuesday 25th June 2024
Most of this film takes place at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, where Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna took residence in June 1938 after escaping from Nazi-occupied Vienna. In his ‘den’ filled with his library of books and religious objects, Freud lives in what he regards as an echo … Continue Reading
Event Photos: Plymouth Urban Tree Festival, 14/5/24
Thursday 23rd May 2024
#Noticethistree is a series of interventions about protest and loss across the UK www.noticethistree.org
On the 14th May as part of Plymouth’s Urban Tree Festival 2024 run by Plymouth Tree People, we invited people to come together to ‘Notice This Tree’ in … Continue Reading
Film Review: “John Singer Sargent – Fashion and Swagger”
Thursday 18th April 2024
Following fast on the heels of Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition, Exhibition on Screen again focuses on one of the year’s most talked-about art shows. Their film, John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger, explores the Tate Britain and Museum of Fine … Continue Reading
Film Review: Your Fat Friend – “her truth bombs are dropped gently but decisively”
Wednesday 6th March 2024
YOUR FAT FRIEND
Just say “fat”. As an opening gambit, Jeanie Finlay’s documentary isn’t shy about throwing around the F word. Your Fat Friend doesn’t tiptoe around the issue of fatness, but approaches it unapologetically. A film that documents both individual and collective experience, … Continue Reading