Independent Cinema for Everyone

Balanced somewhere between a “gothic love story” and horror, according to its director, Saltburn is a film with serious pedigree.

Loosely based on the family featured in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, this later-generation story begins in 2006, and owes as much to cinematic references as Waugh’s examination of Britain’s class structure: … Continue Reading

Typist Artist Pirate King is showing at Plymouth Arts Cinema from Friday 17th November 2023 – Wednesday 22nd November. Director Carol Morley will be joining us for an introduction and Q&A for the screening on Friday November 17th.

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I am writing this on the road in … Continue Reading

Oil literally erupts from the land of the Osage Native American nation, and they become incredibly wealthy. The opening sequence shows the elders burying a ceremonial pipe that symbolises the death of their old ways, and underlines that for their children they will have to live in the materialistic and greedy … Continue Reading

A project of time and reflection, The Nettle Dress records a seven-year mission by textile artist, Allan Brown, to make a garment entirely from wild nettles.

Filmed by Dylan Howitt, Allan explains the painstaking process of collecting, threading and weaving nettles into fabric, while recounting his first encounter with the prickly … Continue Reading

Trying to pin down the chaotic, surrealist world of Salvador Dali, Daliland is a biopic that doesn’t lack ambition. Directed by Mary Harron and scripted by John Walsh, this film explores the last decade of the artist’s life. 

We enter Daliland … Continue Reading

I was never that great at maths so I’m not entirely certain what kind of love triangle the three central characters in Ira Sachs’ absorbing film Passages form but it definitely isn’t one of those where all the sides are equal.

The key player in this Parisian ménage à trois is … Continue Reading