Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Award Winning Independent Cinema
Moving Waters – Artist Moving Image Programme
Thursday 19th September 2024
Moving Waters – curated by A Sometimes Project
These short films will be played before selected films in our October programme. An emerging, experimental arts initiative that aims to create opportunities for artists and audiences, at different locations, some of the time. Instagram: asometimesproject.
My November Guest (Georgie Gentile, 3 mins 28)
Thursday … 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
Best Arts, Culture and Theatre Venue – Muddy Stilettos Awards
Tuesday 11th June 2024
We celebrated our Muddy Stilettos Devon Award on a lovely sunny evening at Shilstone Manor. Thank you for voting us best Arts, Culture and Theatre venue in Devon! Here are Charlotte and Manon collecting the certificate. It was great to meet and chat with the other winners. We’re now up … Continue Reading
Film Review – Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom
Wednesday 26th April 2023
A winner of multiple awards, and nominated for Best International Feature at the 2022 Oscars, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is both a charming tale of self-discovery, and an unsentimental look at life in contemporary China.
Written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji, Lunana … Continue Reading
Film review: The Beasts – “a microcosm of global tensions”
Wednesday 12th April 2023
Rural life in a small Spanish village in the mountainous Galician region is hard work, but that is nothing compared with dealing with your neighbours. Middle-aged Antoine Denis (Denis Ménochet) and his wife Olga (Marina Foïs) have moved here to restore old dwellings and to grow crops on their small … Continue Reading
Review: Enys Men + Q&A with Director Mark Jenkin
Wednesday 25th January 2023
The sense of an occasion is palpable as Mark Jenkin introduces Enys Men to a full house, and answers questions from the audience after the film. In particular, he is generous in giving advice and encouragement to young and emerging film makers, stating that living in a relatively remote area … Continue Reading
Film Review: Operation Mincemeat – “fiction is a powerful weapon of war”
Tuesday 10th May 2022
Reviewed by Nigel Watson
In 1943 Operation Mincemeat was instigated to convince the Nazis that the Allies were planning to invade Greece rather than their intended target of Sicily.
Ewen Montague, formerly a barrister in civilian life, played by Colin Firth, persuades the sceptical high command that the … Continue Reading
Plymouth Arts Cinema and Plymouth After Dark Present an extra-terrestrial Bowie Double Bill
Tuesday 26th April 2022
On Saturday 30th April Plymouth Arts Cinema are teaming up with Plymouth After Dark to show a very special – one could even say extra-terrestrial – double bill of The Man Who Fell to Earth and a Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars concert.
by Ieuan Jone… Continue Reading