Award Winning Independent Cinema
Category: Film
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
Remembrance – “A film that will mean a lot to anybody from Plymouth”
Tuesday 1st October 2024
Remembrance interweaves the lives of several different characters, all of whom are sailors, as they await their departure to sea in the coming days. At the heart of the film is Plymouth, particularly Union Street, as we see the chaos and disorder that takes place in the pubs and clubs … Continue Reading
Film Review: Starve Acre – “instils an ancient fear”
Tuesday 24th September 2024
Five-year-old Owen lives on a remote farm on the Yorkshire moors, where he hears a strange whistling noise and begins to act in an odd fashion. His archaeologist father is impressed that he has collected the bones of a hare from the grounds of their property and that he might be … Continue Reading
Meet Ariel, Marcel, Joy and Bastian – the summer’s films introduced.
Tuesday 30th July 2024
By Noah Bridle
The Little Mermaid (PG)
Wednesday 31st July, 11am
Wednesday 7th August, 2:30pm
Disney’s live-action remake of the animation classic The Little Mermaid follows Ariel, the strongest daughter of King Triton, as she searches for what could … Continue Reading
Film Review: Freud’s Last Session – “Anthony Hopkins plays a grumpy yet still sharp-minded Freud”
Tuesday 25th June 2024
Most of this film takes place at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, where Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna took residence in June 1938 after escaping from Nazi-occupied Vienna. In his ‘den’ filled with his library of books and religious objects, Freud lives in what he regards as an echo … Continue Reading