Embark on an epic adventure – via the big screen! The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to the Exeter Corn Exchange on 7-8 February and 25-26 March. The Banff Mountain Film Festival features a selection of adrenaline-packed films, starring athletes and explorers as they venture to the edge of their limits in remote corners of the planet. Witness the world’s best adventure film-makers telling stories of life-affirming journeys with stunning wilderness cinematography – all from the comfort of a cinema seat! As well as gripping short films and a celebratory festival...
Plymouth Arts Centre has announced the films that will be shown this summer, at the spectacular waterside venues of Tinside Lido, Mount Edgcumbe and Royal William Yard. Plymouth Arts Centre has been taking its cinema on tour each summer for a sell-out series of events since 2012.
The programme has expanded due to popular demand, with two weekends at Tinside Lido. The 1935 Art Deco Lido...
Former wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper sticks it to The Man/weird capitalist space aliens in Mr Jon Carpenter’s stone cold classic. This will appeal to those those who felt that what was missing from Invasion of the Body Snatchers was an unnecessarily long fist fight in an alley and for anyone who appreciates the subtle nuance and raw emotion that only a professional wrestler can bring to a screen performance.
Monday 30 November 2015 | 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Tickets: £6.60 | £4.50 concessions | Free to Peninsula Arts Friends
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Simon Ward, Clare Sutcliffe.
14 year old Wynne (Jenny Agutter, two years before Walkabout) is a schoolgirl who lives with a foster family and is inseparable from her friend Corinne (Sutcliffe). Wynne has crush on her older foster brother George who she suspects may be the man killing local young girls. Agutter is superb as Wynne, poised and intelligent at times and woefully ill-equipped at others, in this often overlooked classic...
Running time: 85 minutes Certificate: UK Language: English
Director: Anthony Asquith, Geoffrey Barkas Cast: Fay Compton, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey. Introduction by Dr Simon Topping, Plymouth University
Tell England is set before the outbreak of WW1 and shows the friendship between two men before they enlist. Both directors had close memories of Gallipoli, as did Fay Compton's brother, Compton Mackenzie. Asquith's father H. H. Asquith had been Prime Minister at the time of the Gallipoli Landings, a fact which drew press attention to the film, while Geoffrey Barkas...
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...
On Wednesday 19th August film fans and beach goers alike can enjoy an evening screening of popular movie Mamma Mia starring Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Dominic Cooper and Pierce Brosnan.
The screening will take place on Porthluney Beach, part of the Caerhays Estate, with gates opening at 7pm and the screening beginning at 9pm.
International shorts are brought back for a second year at Plymouth's Film Festival.
Saturday evening includes a preview screening of Dartmoor Killing, followed by a Q & A session, the Awards Ceremony and networking party.
Sunday afternoon includes a filmmaking workship by screenwriter, Robin Mukherjee. Categories include Fiction, Animation, Comedy, Student, Documentary and South West.
For more information:
Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street, Plymouth PL4 0EB
