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: 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
Review: How to Have Sex + Bad Sex Writing Workshop
Tuesday 21st November 2023
How to Have Sex is a sun and alcohol-soaked tale of three teenage girls on a post GCSE bender in Crete, with the singular mission of getting laid. As such, it shares a familiar aim of films like American Pie, and … Continue Reading
A Letter From Carol Morley, Director of Typist Artist Pirate King
Thursday 9th November 2023
Typist Artist Pirate King is showing at Plymouth Arts Cinema from Friday 17th November 2023 – Wednesday 22nd November. Director Carol Morley will be joining us for an introduction and Q&A for the screening on Friday November 17th.
Dear Reader, Subscriber, Cinemagoer, Friend,
I am writing this on the road in … Continue Reading
Film Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
Tuesday 7th November 2023
Oil literally erupts from the land of the Osage Native American nation, and they become incredibly wealthy. The opening sequence shows the elders burying a ceremonial pipe that symbolises the death of their old ways, and underlines that for their children they will have to live in the materialistic and greedy … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Nettle Dress – “not just about the object itself, but what it represents”
Wednesday 25th October 2023
A project of time and reflection, The Nettle Dress records a seven-year mission by textile artist, Allan Brown, to make a garment entirely from wild nettles.
Filmed by Dylan Howitt, Allan explains the painstaking process of collecting, threading and weaving nettles into fabric, while recounting his first encounter with the prickly … Continue Reading
Film Review: Daliland – “The intensity of the eyes draw you in”
Tuesday 17th October 2023
Trying to pin down the chaotic, surrealist world of Salvador Dali, Daliland is a biopic that doesn’t lack ambition. Directed by Mary Harron and scripted by John Walsh, this film explores the last decade of the artist’s life.
We enter Daliland … Continue Reading