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: Rear Window
Tuesday 21st April 2020
Our reviewer Helen Tope revisits Hitchcock’s classic.
Sitting in Alfred Hitchcock’s creative high-point, Rear Window is a textbook thriller. While it doesn’t have the psychosexual drama of Vertigo, Rear Window (released in 1954) treads tonally between the rooftop capers of To Catch a Thief and the nail-shredding tension of … Continue Reading
Reclaim The Frame Events This Week – Misbehaviour and Laura Mulvey
Tuesday 21st April 2020
In their mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women, Reclaim The Frame have moved their activities online for now. There are two fantastic events coming up this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdbicHwfFQ
Misbehaviour (12A)
Online Discussion Wednesday 22 April, 6.00pm
Oscar-winning producer and Birds’ Eye View Director-at-large Mia Bays will be in … Continue Reading
Free films from Iris Prize LGBT Film Festival
Thursday 16th April 2020
Organisers of Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival have made three short films from the Iris archive available for free on their YouTube channel. The films are all directed by women who have made short films with the £30,000 Iris Prize, sponsored by the Michael Bishop Foundation.
Dee Rees’ Colonial Gods … Continue Reading
Reclaim The Frame Events This Week – The Perfect Candidate and Eye To Eye
Tuesday 14th April 2020
In their mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women, Reclaim The Frame have moved their activities online for now. There are two fantastic events coming up this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8HQTAqbmg&t=3s
The Perfect Candidate (PG)
Online Discussion Wednesday 15 April from 6pm
This Wednesday Oscar-winning producer and Birds’ Eye View Director-at-large Mia … Continue Reading
On Missing The Cinema
Tuesday 14th April 2020
By Director and Film Programmer Anna Navas
Saturday the 14th March was the last day PAC was open to the public. It is barely a month ago but feels like another lifetime. At that stage I think we were all still working with the idea … Continue Reading
Double Indemnity Film Review
Thursday 9th April 2020
Our reviewer Helen Tope revisits the classic 1944 film noir.
Provocative and darkly glamorous, Double Indemnity is director Billy Wilder’s take on the film noir genre. Released in 1944, the story of Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson is sultry and grubby. A tale of greed, corruption and lust, this … Continue Reading
Womb by Amber Amare
Tuesday 7th April 2020
“If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask her about her mother and then listen carefully. – The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother’s life, without flinching or whining, the stronger the daughter’ – Anita Diamont
Womb Charts the filmmakers … Continue Reading
From Spring Screening Days in London to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Friday 3rd April 2020
A blog post on the landscape of independent cinema right now, by PAC Director and Film Programmer, Anna Navas.
April 3, 2020: Exactly one month ago I was on the train to London, looking forward to four days of back-to-back film previews, catching up with colleagues and friends in the industry … Continue Reading