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Category: Film
Film Review: A Real Pain
Wednesday 29th January 2025
Jesse Eisenberg’s second feature as writer-director tells the story of two cousins journeying to Poland in tribute of their recently deceased grandmother, by way of a holocaust tour group.
The once-close-now-distant cousins hope to reconnect not only with the tragedy of their ancestry, but with each other. A gentle drama-comedy in the … Continue Reading
Film review: Nosferatu – “mesmerizingly blood curdling”
Tuesday 14th January 2025
The film opens in beautifully lensed darkness then to our main character Ellen Hutter (dressed all in white, a clear metaphor for her actions as the heroine of the story) woken from her nightmares by a deep voice powerfully calling her. We follow as she walks to this … Continue Reading
Our Films of the Year 2024
Saturday 21st December 2024
Our wonderful staff and volunteers have taken our annual vote on our favourite films of 2024.
Each of us voted for our top 3 films. Plymouth Arts Cinema screened 162 films this year, and we all have wide and varied tastes, so as usual we don’t have a lot of consensus!
The … Continue Reading
Review: The Room Next Door – “zings with colour and vibrancy: as a counterpoint to the proximity of death”
Tuesday 12th November 2024
At the age of 75, director Pedro Almodovar is still breaking new ground. In The Room Next Door, we have his first full-length feature in English. Taking its lead from Sigrid Nunez’s novel, What Are You Going Through, the film sees two friends reunite after years apart.
Ingrid (played … Continue Reading
Q&A with Director Mark Cousins
Tuesday 29th October 2024
Thank you to Mark Cousins for a brilliant evening on 21/10/24 talking us through his film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, a documentary about the painter Wilhemina Barns Graham who worked in St Ives and whose work is held in … Continue Reading
Film review: Timestalker – “wild, weird and wonderful”
Tuesday 29th October 2024
The theme of time travel is perfect for filmmakers as the very process of editing allows you to manipulate the timeline of your story and characters, in the form of flashbacks or even flashforwards.
The Back to the Future trilogy, for example, weaves a story that takes us from 1985 to … Continue Reading
“A textural, emotive documentary of a forgotten visionary” – A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things Review
Tuesday 15th October 2024
In approaching the reputation and legacy of modernist painter, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, film-maker Mark Cousins makes it clear that conventional story-telling will not do. A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things is a textural, emotive documentary of an artist he calls – and with good reason – a “forgotten visionary”.
Born … Continue Reading
Film Review: “Everybody in the Place” – Jeremy Deller
Thursday 10th October 2024
If you are my age, dangerously close to 50, or a fan of the Prodigy – you’ll understand the correct response to the title of Jeremy Deller’s illustrated, hour long lecture, is:
“Let’s go”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY87o9IZXWg&ab_channel=TheProdigy
As I previously said I am reasonably old, but not quite old enough to … Continue Reading