Award Winning Independent Cinema

Late one Sunday night, I must have been about eleven or twelve, and I’m watching TV in our front room. It was approaching bedtime, so I am anxious because it’s school the next day, when something came on so incredible and awful that my mind managed to make … Continue Reading

With a career spanning three decades, actor Ralph Fiennes has just received his third Oscar nomination. His role in Edward Berger’s ecclesiastical hit Conclave has impressed critics and audiences, and the nominations have been quick to follow. We may still think of Fiennes’ career … Continue Reading

In Adam Elliot’s second feature film, Memoir of a Snail, a young woman, saddened by the death of her only friend, tells her tragic life story to her pet snail. It is a sorrowful tale, full of loss, alienation and abuse, though once put through the filter of wry, Australian … Continue Reading

Adrian Brody seems to be carving out a peculiar character niche for himself – a renowned Jewish artist and genius in his discipline who is left ravaged by the horrors of the holocaust. But rather than being a rehash of 2002’s The Pianist, The Brutalist is more its spiritual sequel, … Continue Reading

Set in a remote village of the Italian Alps during the last uncertain days of World War II,  Vermiglio peeks into the secrets and conflicts of a family modestly getting by in an unforgiving environment. Italy’s contender for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, the film is a beautifully shot, … Continue Reading

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

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 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