Award Winning Independent Cinema

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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

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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

Review of Civil Rights Movement film Selma, showing in Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema from 20-26 March.

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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

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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

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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

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One of the most important films to come out of Russia in recent years, Leviathan is visually majestic, philosophically illuminating and hauntingly poignant. Through all of this, it has a simple yet engaging story to tell; that of the common man struggling against … Continue Reading

This January Plymouth Arts Centre held a sold-out screening of The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, with an introduction by the Plymouth-based composer, Simon Dobson. Ieuan Jones was there to review the event.

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