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Truly a master of his art: our bloggers revisit Alan Rickman’s most memorable characters

https://youtu.be/GorPPLfJ7s0 It is an unashamedly partisan choice, but my favourite memory of Alan Rickman will always be his performance in Sense and Sensibility. While Emma Thompson’s screenplay was the star of the show, Alan Rickman’s depiction of a character that gets a second chance at life is truly moving. You see Colonel Brandon’s transformation from a man who expects nothing further, to one filled with optimism - exactly as Jane Austen wrote it. This was Rickman’s interpretation of the male romantic lead. It was the defining characteristic of his work – the ability to find the unexpected in any role, any genre. There ... Continue Reading
19th January 2016matrix

Film Review: Carol

https://youtu.be/EH3zcuRQXNo Carol is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema from 5 - 14 January 2016. It will be introduced on Tuesday 12th January by Millie Brown, Leader for BA in Fashion Media and Marketing at Plymouth College of Art. Starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, ‘Carol’ is that most rare thing; a love story for grown-ups. Set in 1950’s New York, ‘Carol’ relates the extraordinary journey of two women struggling against social convention. A chance encounter at a Manhattan department store between sales assistant (Mara) and wealthy, glamorous Carol (Blanchett) sparks a connection between the pair. As the innocent Therese ... Continue Reading
4th January 2016matrix

Film Review: When Harry Met Sally

When Harry Met Sally, part of the BFI Love Film season, is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre on Tues 22 and Wed 23 December. ‘When Harry Met Sally’ isn’t just a romantic comedy – it’s the benchmark by which all subsequent rom-coms have been measured. The film critic Roger Ebert reviewed ‘When Harry Met Sally’ on its release in 1989, calling it “a love story with a form as old as the movies and dialogue as new as this month's issue of Vanity Fair.” You can see the film’s lineage in old-school ... Continue Reading
22nd December 2015matrix

Art Review: Peter Liversidge Talk

Earlier this month, I was invited to attend a PAC Home Talk by conceptual artist, Peter Liversidge. Born in 1973, Peter’s work has appeared in exhibitions both at home and abroad. His career path began studying Fine Art at the University of Plymouth, as he began to notice that his peers were becoming increasingly concerned with finding and developing their ‘signature style’. Peter rebelled against this idea of producing repetitive, self-definable art – choosing instead to work in a huge variety of mediums including performance, photography, drawing and sculpture. ... Continue Reading
17th December 2015matrix

Best Films of 2015

We asked Plymouth Arts Centre's blog writers and staff to tell us about their favourite films of 2015. Here's what they came up with: https://youtu.be/KaTTr5-JmuU The Duke of Burgundy Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy concerns two lovers locked within a sadomasochistic affair in a gorgeous, unnamed, continental community, populated only by women. Fifty Shades of Grey (which opened the same week) shared similar themes, but came across as a glossy ejaculation over itself. Strickland's film, conversely, is incredibly refined, nuanced, funny, sad and troubling, with two wonderful performances at its centre. Despite the scandalous subject ... Continue Reading
16th December 2015matrix

Film Review: Macbeth

https://youtu.be/zlX7G5wGYYs Macbeth is playing at Plymouth Arts Centre from 30 Oct - 5 Nov A play steeped in dark, pernicious forces, ‘Macbeth’ presents a unique challenge to the film-maker. With its blend of witchcraft and Realpolitik, ‘Macbeth’ lives between two worlds, meaning the most successful adaptations have worked thanks to a clear directive vision. This latest film, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, is directed by Justin Kurzel, whose previous work includes ‘Snowtown’; an ultra-violent film about a serial killer. Kurzel’s resolute approach to violence on-screen makes him a perfect fit for Shakespeare’s murderous King. Kurzel’s ‘Macbeth’ is set in Middle ... Continue Reading
4th November 2015matrix

Art Review: Lagoon West

Matthew Houlding's Lagoon West is at Plymouth Arts Centre until July 18. Lagoon West is an exhibition that doesn’t believe in playing coy. Big, bold and ambitious, it is, in every sense a multi-dimensional piece, taking over both ground and upper-floor galleries. The installations are hand-crafted by Houlding; wooden models with Perspex panels sit next to wall collages of cork and plasterboard. Painted cactuses in vivid orange and green add to the exuberance of Houlding’s palette of blues and yellows. It creates an exotic dreamscape; a playground where the traditional mixes with the fashionable; Lagoon West comments on how affluence expects history and tradition ... Continue Reading
23rd June 2015matrix

Art Review: Everything Made Bronze

Ellard and Johnstone's Everything Made Bronze is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre until 10 May. It is a very contemporary dilemma: how to take art from a passive experience to a collaborative act. Ellard & Johnstone’s work has been built around this principle, translating thoughts on time, age and renewal into a visual language that is rich with history, while remaining utterly modern. With its contradictions of stillness and movement, Everything Made Bronze (2013) presents an interconnected flow of images that develop without narrative. Filmed at two locations, Everything Made Bronze begins at the Gipsoteca plaster-cast gallery in the Museo Canova, ... Continue Reading
8th April 2015matrix