Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Closed Monday and Sunday
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Independent Cinema for Everyone
Film Review: Spencer “digs into Diana’s nightmare of constant scrutiny”
Tuesday 7th December 2021
by Helen Tope
Spencer is screening at Plymouth Arts Cinema from 3-9 December, with a Bringing in Baby Screening on 8 December.
Focusing on three days over Christmas 1991, Spencer is a unique take on the Princess Diana story.
Directed by Pablo Larrain, Spencer leans into the claustrophobia of living inside … Continue Reading
The Box Shorts: Winter Edition
Monday 29th November 2021
From giant christmas puddings to the bright lights of a village fete, Compass Presents have chosen a selection of the most weird and wonderful archive films from the South West to celebrate the festive season.
This project is presented in partnership with The Box, Plymouth and Tate St Ives and is … Continue Reading
Film Review: Dune “not only Dune, but actual cinema and all that goes with it, has returned at last.”
Thursday 18th November 2021
by Ieuan Jones
Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction novel of all time. You’d think this will have made his book series, full of gods and monsters, empires and wars, particularly hot property in Hollywood. So it’s perhaps surprising that it’s had a checkered history of adaptations … Continue Reading
Film Review: The French Dispatch “It is, in its adoption of pastels, whimsy and humour, absolute Anderson.”
Monday 15th November 2021
by Helen Tope
A new film from Wes Anderson is always an event. With an impressive roll call, including Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, the expectations for The French Dispatch have been understandably high.
Anderson takes us to France in the Sixties and Seventies, to a fictional … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Green Knight “a cinematic poem that takes us deep into the realm of Arthurian fantasy and romance”
Monday 8th November 2021
by Nigel Watson
The Green Knight, a powerful creature of the forest, is summoned by a magical spell cast by Morgan le Fay to the castled kingdom of Camelot at Christmas. The knight appears and challenges anyone in the kingdom brave enough to tackle him and accept his conditions for the … Continue Reading
London Film Festival 2021
Wednesday 27th October 2021
London Film Festival 21: the year I almost met Jane Campion.
I haven’t felt this excited about going to London since I was 10 and my Mam took me to BHS on Oxford Street to buy bridesmaid shoes (they were pale blue and I have never loved a pair of shoes … Continue Reading
In Pictures: Open Air Cinema 2021
Thursday 9th September 2021
We enjoyed a wonderful summer of balmy evenings and glorious sunsets for Open Air Cinema 2021 at The Box and Tinside Lido. It felt so good to be back. Here are some pictures taken by photographers Amber Thorpe (@amberfilms_) and Brett Lockwood (@brettlphotography)…. Continue Reading
Short Films and archive footage of Plymouth to be showcased at Open Air Cinema
Monday 16th August 2021
Visitors to Plymouth Arts Cinema’s Open Air Cinema events at Tinside Lido will be treated to a programme of short films to accompany the main features.
The independent cinema occupies a key position in the South West’s film culture and is keen to both showcase the local filmmaking talent of today, … Continue Reading