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: Cezanne and I tells the story of one of art’s most famous friendships
Tuesday 4th July 2017
https://youtu.be/BCuS2BFgCck
Helen Tope reviews Cezanne and I. It’s showing in the cinema until 6 July.
Cezanne and I tells the story of one of art’s most famous friendships. Meeting during their childhood, the novelist Emile Zola and the artist Paul Cezanne become friends, but as they grow up and enter the … Continue Reading
Film Review: Manhattan, “Woody Allen’s love letter to the city”
Wednesday 21st June 2017
Regular contributor Nigel Watson reviews Woody Allen’s classic film Manhattan, ahead of it’s screening at Plymouth Arts Centre from Friday 23 – Thursday 29 June. Tickets are available to book now.
Manhattan is best known as Woody Allen’s love letter to the city. The opening sequence shows off … Continue Reading
Film Review: Mad to be Normal, “David Tennant perfectly captures the charisma and frustrations of Laing”
Wednesday 14th June 2017
Nigel Watson reviews Mad To Be Normal, starring David Tennant. Screening until Thursday 15 June, tickets are available on our website.
Robert Mullan’s film focuses on R. D. Laing’s controversial time at Kingsley Hall, a psychiatric community project in the East End of London, which ran from 1965 … Continue Reading
Plymouth Film Festival Reviewed
Wednesday 7th June 2017
The Fourth annual Plymouth Film Festival was hosted at Plymouth Arts Centre on May 27-28 2017, showcasing a collection of world-class short films and features. With a range of categories such as You Only Live Once, Family Affairs and Random Acts featuring a diverse set of genres, the PFF audience … Continue Reading
Film Review: Heal The Living
Saturday 3rd June 2017
Heal the Living is showing in our cinema until Thursday 8 June. Ieuan Jones has reviewed it for us.
https://youtu.be/8GHeJMXwMm8
Tragedy strikes at the beginning of Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living, when a young man, Simon (Gabin Verdet) is involved in an accident on the … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Handmaiden “obedience and rebellion; sound and silence; sensuality and perversion”
Monday 22nd May 2017
Regular contributor Helen Tope has reviewed Chan-Wook Park’s film The Handmaiden which is currently showing in the PAC cinema until Thursday 25 May. Limited tickets remain for this weeks screenings, book now to avoid missing out!
The Handmaiden is a South Korean film based on the novel … Continue Reading
Film Review: Lady Macbeth “humanity at its most malicious and Darwinian”
Saturday 20th May 2017
Ieuan Jones has reviewed Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh, ahead of the screenings at PAC cinema. The film will be showing from Friday 26 – Thursday 31 May, tickets are available now.
The Lady Macbeth of the title is not the Shakespeare character, though there is plenty of … Continue Reading
“A taste of the sea on film” – Nigel Watson reviews Celluloid Sail screening of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Wednesday 17th May 2017
Regular Contributor Nigel Watson reviews the Celluloid Sail screening of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, an event presented by Plymouth Arts Centre and Compass Presents in partnership with the BFI and part of the ‘Britain on Film’ season of archive events, supported by Unlocking Film … Continue Reading