Award Winning Independent Cinema

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Blue Velvet is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre on 8 December.

Blue Velvet (1986) is playing as part of the BFI’s season of love films, and I cannot wait to see its intoxicating imagery and subliminal warped desires projected onto the big screen for the first time. It remains the … Continue Reading

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He Named Me Malala is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema from 27 November – 3 December.

In 2012 I was a female graduate feeling equally excited and terrified about the opportunities that awaited me.

In the same year I also watched a brave young girl from Pakistan, along with the rest … Continue Reading

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Crimson Peak is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre from 20 – 26 November.

Guillermo del Toro is arguably the greatest visionary director working in Hollywood today – and Crimson Peak shows his talents at their visually vibrant best.

It should go almost without saying that from a production and costume design … Continue Reading

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Spectre is showing in Plymouth Arts Centre cinema from 27 Nov – 3 Dec.

Bond has survived all attempts on his life by the world’s most determined assassins; he’s walked away from car, aircraft, spacecraft, shipwrecks and dodged innumerable bombs and bullets. He’s virtually indestructible.

Appropriately, Spectre opens with a long-take … Continue Reading

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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

“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

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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

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