Independent Cinema for Everyone
Category: Film
The Pleasure of Food and Film
Tuesday 1st July 2014
What chew looking at? Food is a huge part of cinema for me. When we’re shown a meal taking place in a restaurant, café or home, I often miss a crucial glance or piece of dialogue … Continue Reading
Riot Grrrl Night Review: The Punk Singer and Suck My Culture
Tuesday 24th June 2014
Suck My Culture photos: Libby Gyllenship.
Plymouth Arts Centre’s punk night was a raucous and wonderful celebration of ladies in music with riot grrrl band Suck My Culture rocking the bar between films. People were blown away by ‘We Are The Best’ and ‘The Punk Singer’, with lots of calls for … Continue Reading
Review: Plymouth Short Film Festival…the first of many!
Tuesday 27th May 2014
Plymouth has a rich history when it comes to film making but has previously been lacking in festivals, with most being held further afield in the South West. As an advocate and fan of independent film making who has grown up largely missing out on the joys of Film Festivals, … Continue Reading
Film Review: Under the Skin
Tuesday 8th April 2014
Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin is only something of a distant relative of Michael Faber’s book of the same name rather than a straightforward adaptation. Nine years in the making and going through countless rewrites and … Continue Reading
A Chat with Allen, Our Cinema Usher Since 1978!
Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Allen Pollock is our longest serving usher, having started in 1978, and is a self confessed film buff, watching around 450 films a year. We sat down for a cup of coffee and a chat.
When did you start coming to Plymouth Arts Centre?
I started coming here as a teenager in … Continue Reading
The Missing Picture: Witnessing the Unimaginable
Tuesday 25th March 2014
Joanna Wolfarth, specialist in Cambodian art, culture and history, takes a look behind The Missing Picture.
In April 1975 the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh, ending years of bloody civil war which had played out under the shadow of … Continue Reading
2014 Oscar Winners
Wednesday 5th March 2014
The amount of attention this event manages to garner each year for the verdict of what boils down to the views of an American cast of Last of the Summer Wine (the 5,765 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and … Continue Reading
Where did it all begin for the 2014 Oscar Nominees?
Tuesday 11th February 2014
Jemima Laing casts her eye over this year’s Oscar nominations ahead of the ceremony on March 2.
Odds are I don’t look at the Oscar nominations in the same way as you.
Because I … Continue Reading