Running time: 88 minutes | certificate: 15 UK | language: English
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley
Reece Shearsmith, co-creator of The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and one of the stars of A Field in England will be introducing the film and taking a Q & A session after the screening of Ben Wheatley’s fourth feature film.
Amid the Civil War in 17th century England, a group of deserters flee...
Running time: 108 minutes, certificate: 12 France/UK, language: English
Dir: Francois Truffaut Cast: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring.
Much admired by J. G. Ballard, this film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel is Truffaut’s only English language film. Set in the future where all books have been outlawed by a repressive regime, firemen are the Government force whose job it is to search for and destroy all literature by burning it. One of the firemen, Montag (Werner) begins to question his own actions and slowly becomes...
Running time: 97 minutes, certificate: 18 US/Canada, language: English
Dir: David Cronenberg Cast: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger.
David Cronenberg’s controversial Crash is adapted from his 1973 novel. After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard (Spader) finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. James' descent into this fetishistic underworld is approached with cold, scientific detachment. The film is a...
J.G. Ballard Series Plus an introduction to the J.G. Ballard Series by Anna Navas
Running time: 146 minutes, certificate: PG UK, language: English
Dir: Steven Spielberg Cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Based on J. G. Ballard’s autobiographical novel, Christian Bale stars as Jamie Graham, a spoiled young British boy living with his wealthy family in Shanghai on the eve of World War II. During the Japanese invasion he is separated from his parents and ends up in a prisoner of war camp where he falls under the care of two very...
September October 2015 Films at Plymouth Arts Centre
Iris (12A)
Tues 15, 6pm Wed 16, 2.30 and 6pm Thurs 17, 8.30pm Dir. Albert Maysles, US, 2015, 80 mins. The last film from legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens, Gimmie Shelter) is a bittersweet documentary about Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style expert who has had...
The details of ten films which are to be shown following a fundraising campaign have been now been announced.
The films, screened by Plymouth Arts Centre, were funded as a result of a successful Crowdfunder campaign to run Cinema in the City, a series of cinema events this summer which raised £5,345.
Films have been chosen specifically to suit their screening locations. Wes...
Winners: Helen Bennet, Annemieke Coombs, Tracy Baker, Angela Royton and Alison Emony.
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To celebrate the release of Spooks: The Greater Good, in cinemas May 8 (Special Advance Screenings April 30), we’re giving you the chance to be one of the first to experience the high octane espionage thriller by winning two tickets to a special advance screening at your local...
The Odeon and UCI Cinemas Group plans to open a new multiplex cinema in the city as early as 2015.
The cinema, which will be the first in the region to have the new immersive iSense screen, will form part of the Plymouth Argyle FC led Higher Home Park development .
Plymouth owner and chairman, James Brent, has revealed extensive plans to redevelop the area, with a new...
A drawing that became a dream. A dream that became a reality.
Dr Alastair Smith from the School of Psychology, will introduce this dark fantasy about a young girl’s dreams that become populated by her drawings.
Alastair conducts research into the cognitive processes underlying drawing production. He will discuss how drawing abilities emerge in development and explore the relationship between meaning and appearance in children’s drawings.
Director: Bernard Rose Cast: Charlotte Burke, Elliott Spiers, Glenne Headly, Ben Cross, Gemma Jones Running time: 92 mins Cert: 15...
Five-piece band, Wurlitza, will present a modern twist to this silent film accompaniment by adding music that will be arranged in a way that is novel and fresh. Their unique approach utilises their wide-ranging repertoire of original, pop, jazz, classical, indie and everything in between.
'A Cottage On Dartmoor' is a story of love, jealousy and manicures. Made in 1929 by the young Anthony Asquith, the film explores the latest craze at the time: the talkies. One of the last silent films to be made, it is early British cinema at its best.
