Independent Cinema for Everyone

Cinema is the dark palace of dreams and imagination, a place of entertainment, escapism and enlightenment. You see the world and other worlds through different eyes.The novelist Virginia Woolf in her essay ‘The Cinema’ published in the 3 July 1926 edition of The Nation and Athenaeum, observes how cinema might … Continue Reading

There are few books with such a reputation as D.H Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. It has become a byword for literary lasciviousness: the fiercely erotic affair between aristocrat Lady Chatterley and her gamekeeper, Mellors, is firmly embedded (pun intended) into our popular culture. In a new film adaptation, … Continue Reading

Reframing the Emily Bronte story from a revisionist perspective, Frances O’Connor’s biopic steps away from the traditional adaptation and into a blend of truth and myth.

The film shapes the complex, sobering elements of the Bronte biography for a younger audience. Casting Sex Education’s Emma Mackey in the lead role, O’Connor’s … Continue Reading

A truly innovative piece of film-making, the Afro-futurist musical Neptune Frost is daring and transgressive.

Pitched in Burundi, one of the world’s poorest nations, Neptune Frost conceives an alternate reality, a few years from now. Brothers Matalusa (played by rapper Kaya Free) and Tekno (Robert Ninteretse) work in an open-pit Coltan … Continue Reading

Introduced by Anna Navas, film programmer for the Plymouth Arts Cinema, with a Q&A with the producer Jessica Malik and the star of the film Alice Krige, She Will started In Dreams Are Monsters: The Season of the Witch series of horror films funded by the BFI that seek … Continue Reading

This year welcomes the 30th anniversary edition of the French Film Festival, organised in partnership with Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and Screen Scotland, and is currently the only francophone film Festival in the UK. Plymouth Arts Cinema is showing three films from the Festival: Tori and Lokita, Full Time … Continue Reading

An avant garde troupe is in residence at a manor house producing soundscapes from a mixture of blenders, knives and miked up bowls of fruit. A gurning octogenarian GP projects a live endoscopy onto a gallery wall for a crowd of chin-stroking enthusiasts. Meanwhile, … Continue Reading

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is as much of a confection as the dresses at its centre. 
Every moment is garlanded with a level of cliche which would be difficult to stomach if the narrative wasn’t being guided by the seasoned hands of Lesley Manville.
Manville plays our ever … Continue Reading