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: Pasolini
Tuesday 13th October 2015
https://youtu.be/2SH5bojNemg
Abel Ferrara’s film devotes itself to exploring the last day of film director Pier Pablo Pasolini’s life. The Italian writer, poet, film director and intellectual was a Marxist who attacked the ruling Christian Democratic party for being in league with the mafia, and his films upset the Vatican who accused … Continue Reading
Film Review: Dartmoor Killing, Introduced by Director Peter Nicholson
Wednesday 30th September 2015
“Dartmoor is the star” – so says Dartmoor Killing director Peter Nicholson, in his introduction to tonight’s showing at Plymouth Arts Centre (18/9/15). He is not wrong.
Nicholson is a BAFTA-winning director of impressive pedigree in both film and television. Having grown up in nearby Dartington (and being a Pilgrims … Continue Reading
Film Programmer’s Pick: Girlhood
Friday 3rd July 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJudaZEY-Uc
My job entails watching many, many films. All the time. People envy us Film Programmers but believe me when I say we have to wade through hours and hours of drivel before we find films that make us glad we do what we do. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job … Continue Reading
Film Review: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Tuesday 16th June 2015
Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night describes itself as “the first Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western”, a vivid and eccentric tagline for a very vivid and … Continue Reading
Alzheimers on film: Still Alice.
Tuesday 24th March 2015
https://youtu.be/ZrXrZ5iiR0o
Emily Jones from the Alzheimer’s Society reviews Still Alice and the changing face of Alzheimer’s in our culture.
Still Alice powerfully captures the personal journey of dementia and it is rare to see Alzheimer’s portrayed so accurately in film. While awareness of dementia has certainly improved in recent years, people with the … Continue Reading
Film Review: Selma
Tuesday 17th March 2015
Review of Civil Rights Movement film Selma, showing in Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema from 20-26 March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6t7vVTxaic
This past month has seen the 50th anniversary of the Selma-Montgomery marches, a landmark in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, now dramatized by Ava DuVernay in Selma. These marches ostensibly sought to achieve better … Continue Reading
Fifty Shades of Grey: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Tuesday 24th February 2015
https://youtu.be/SfZWFDs0LxA
Plymouth Arts Centre film programmer Anna Navas considers issues of feminism, domestic abuse and freedom of speech in Fifty Shades of Grey.
Well, I have done it. I paid my money and watched the film that everyone told me not to. Did it shock me? Did I feel sullied? Did it … Continue Reading
Film Review: Birdman
Tuesday 10th February 2015
https://youtu.be/uJfLoE6hanc
After announcing himself with Amores Perros in 2000, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel marked his transformation from darling of world cinema to respected Hollywood auteur. That film’s glacial pace and emotional chilliness stand in marked contrast to Birdman, his latest film in the English language: this is a hyperactive shot in … Continue Reading