You searched for helen tope | Page 14 of 16 | Plymouth Arts Cinema | Independent Cinema for Everyone

Film Review: The Wave

The Wave - a review from Helen Tope The Wave is screening in the Plymouth Arts Centre cinema until the 29th September. The Wave can claim the unique honour of being “Norway’s first disaster movie”. A box-office smash on home turf, The Wave was also submitted as Norway’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Academy Awards. The film takes its inspiration from real-life events. The village of Tafjord was destroyed in 1934 by a tsunami, triggered by a rock-slide. Norway, thanks to its singular geography, is not only prone to such events – they are inevitable. The Wave asks the ... Continue Reading

Art Review: Katya Sander – Publicness

Art Review: Katya Sander – Publicness Katya Sander’s Publicness is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre from 1 September – 29 October. Helen Tope reviews the exhibition. Publicness is an exhibition that takes stock of Katya Sander’s career to date, with many of the pieces revisited and recreated by Sander especially for Plymouth Arts Centre. It lends the exhibition an immediacy that is sometimes lacking in traditionally-staged retrospectives, giving Sander’s ideas a freshness and vivacity. Born in 1970, Katya Sander lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. Sander balances an impressive academic career with a busy exhibition schedule. Most recently showing in solo exhibitions ... Continue Reading

Heather Phillipson_TRUE TO SIZE_Plymouth Arts Centre_3

Art Review: TRUE TO SIZE by Heather Phillipson

Helen Tope reviews Heather Phillipson‘s TRUE TO SIZE which showed at Plymouth Arts Centre from 24 June – 20 August 2016. Heather Phillipson’s TRUE TO SIZE is one of the Arts Council Collection’s 70th anniversary commissions. It is the mid-point of a busy year for the award-winning poet and artist who has had solo exhibitions this year at the Schirn in Frankfurt, Whitechapel Gallery, Frieze Projects in New York and the 32nd Sao Paolo Biennale. Phillipson’s work is hard to categorise: she uses a range of mediums including video, sculpture and sound, creating a multi-layered sensory experience – there is no one ... Continue Reading

Film Review: The Daughter

The Daughter is a remake of the Henrik Ibsen play Wild Duck. First performed in 1884, Ibsen’s play tells the story of a secret that threatens to blow apart the lives of two families. Director and screenwriter Simon Stone (here making his directorial debut, but a fixture of the Sydney theatre scene) transports the action from Norway to a fictional logging town in Australia. The town’s economy is built on the foundation of a logging mill, owned by Henry (played by Geoffrey Rush). The mill is in decline, and Henry has no choice but to close it down, meaning redundancy for its ... Continue Reading

Film Review: Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins is screening from 8th - 14th July For the second time this year, ‘legendary’ opera singer and socialite Florence Foster Jenkins’ life is the subject of a major feature film. French movie Marguerite was not a straight biopic, more a loosely inspired standalone film – though a rather good one. So I was especially curious to see how its British counterpart, starring Hugh Grant and Meryl Streep, would turn out in comparison. I said Foster Jenkins is ‘legendary’ – perhaps infamous may be a better word, but I hesitate to use it because people did actually like her. Basically, though ... Continue Reading

Film Review: Son of Saul

https://youtu.be/uh2toNTE7rA The winner of this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, ‘Son of Saul’ tells the story of Saul Auslander, a Hungarian Jew working at Auschwitz as a Sonderkommando. A German word that does not directly translate into English, ‘Sonderkommando’ was the name given to prisoners who were put to work in the crematoriums. It was a task that while buying them a few extra months of life, exposed them to the very worst of the atrocities. They assist with the exterminations, working at great haste. It is 1944, and with the Allied Forces drawing ever closer, the Nazis are under pressure ... Continue Reading

Film Review: Eye in the Sky

‘Eye in the Sky’ is a film that explores the moral, political and personal implications of modern warfare. While the language of war remains unchanged, decisions to strike are made in military bunkers hundreds of miles from the front line; the probability of casualties is sorted by computer program and the bullet comes not from a gun, but fired from a clear, blue sky. We meet Colonel Katherine Powell (played by Helen Mirren), at the make-or-break moment of a top-secret operation to track and capture some of the ... Continue Reading

What is The F Rating and What Does it Mean for Women in Film?

This summer, Plymouth Arts Centre has launched a new film rating. Introduced to the UK by the Bath Film Festival in 2014, the ‘F’ rating is to notify cinema-goers of a film that meets the following criteria: Does it have a female director? Is it written by a woman? Is / are there significant women on screen in their own right? The ‘F’ in this rating stands for feminist. The F Rating was inspired by the Bechdel Test used by a group of cinemas in Sweden, and developed further ... Continue Reading

Opening Times

Award Winning Independent Cinema

What’s On Today: Wed 21st May

Magic Farm (15)

Good One (15)

Search results for "helen tope"