Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Closed Monday and Sunday
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Independent Cinema for Everyone
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
Film Review: The Zone of Interest – “doesn’t just teach us about the past: it warns us not to repeat it.”
Tuesday 27th February 2024
Anyone who visits the cinema regularly will know that finding a film that stays with you, long after the credits have rolled, is an increasingly rare experience. In Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, the mark left on the audience is indelible. … Continue Reading
Tish + Document Your Community Fotowalk with Fotonow (20/1/24)
Wednesday 31st January 2024
On Saturday 20th January, Fotonow ran a guided photography walk exploring Plymouth in the afternoon, with the theme Document Your Community.
Emma Booth from Fotonow gave an introduction to the film Tish and talk about Fotonow’s socially engaged approach to photography.
“It was fantastic to be able to programme and … Continue Reading
Film Review: Poor Things – “Stone’s performance is rightly worthy of an Oscar nomination”
Wednesday 31st January 2024
A fantasy that blends science fiction with High Victoriana, Poor Things – a 1992 novel from Glaswegian author Alasdair Gray – seems a project tailor-made for director Yorgos Lanthimos.
The story is mired in Gothic horror. A young Victorian woman – wealthy, well-dressed – stands on a bridge, contemplating … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Holdovers – “a sense of warm familiarity”
Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Those fed up with the bleak midwinter will find more than a cup of Christmas cheer still left in The Holdovers, the latest from Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, Nebraska). In fact the callback to yuletide a month after it’s finished seems more than a little apt for a film that itself … Continue Reading
Film Review: Tish – “culture is not solely for middle-class consumption”
Tuesday 16th January 2024
A documentary that reframes the perception of the “working-class experience”, Tish is the story of Tyneside documentary photographer, Tish Murtha. Directed by Paul Sng, and featuring Tish’s daughter, Ella, this haunting documentary charts the span of the photographer’s life.
Tish is screening at Plymouth Arts Cinema from Saturday 20th … Continue Reading
Event Review: The Red Shoes
Thursday 14th December 2023
The centrepiece of a UK-wide celebration, Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger, the 1948 film The Red Shoes, returns to the big screen. The event, which hopes to introduce the bold, transgressive film-making of directors Michael Powell … Continue Reading
Film Review: Saltburn – “grabs your attention and refuses to let go”
Tuesday 28th November 2023
Balanced somewhere between a “gothic love story” and horror, according to its director, Saltburn is a film with serious pedigree.
Loosely based on the family featured in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, this later-generation story begins in 2006, and owes as much to cinematic references as Waugh’s examination of Britain’s class structure: … Continue Reading