Independent Cinema for Everyone

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 In Dreams Are Monsters: The Season of the Witch series of horror films funded by the BFI that seek … Continue Reading

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 Festival in the UK. Plymouth Arts Cinema is showing three films from the Festival: Tori and Lokita, Full Time … Continue Reading

An avant garde troupe is in residence at a manor house producing soundscapes from a mixture of blenders, knives and miked up bowls of fruit. A gurning octogenarian GP projects a live endoscopy onto a gallery wall for a crowd of chin-stroking enthusiasts. Meanwhile, … Continue Reading

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 difficult to stomach if the narrative wasn’t being guided by the seasoned hands of Lesley Manville.
Manville plays our ever … Continue Reading

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 designer: Eric Ravilious has, until recently, been English Art’s best kept secret. His work has undergone a reappraisal over the … Continue Reading

At the start of this hilarious Spanish film an aging billionaire’s thoughts turn, as aging billionaire’s thoughts are (probably) wont to do, to his legacy.

After dismissing several ways to memorialise himself he plumps for backing a film. But it has to be the very best film and he soon snaps … Continue Reading

Blade Runner is undeniably one of the great science fiction cult classics. Directed by Ridley Scott and
released in 1982, the film follows Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, our dystopian future cop.

The film finds its conception as an adaptation of Philip Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? and is … Continue Reading

Stunning sunsets and time enjoyed with friends at Open Air Cinema 2022 at Tinside Lido. Here are some pictures taken by photographers Amber Thorpe (@amberfilms_), Brett Lockwood (@brettlphotography) and the PAC team.
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We are grateful for … Continue Reading