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...
Director: Walter Summers New Score: Simon Dobson Introduction by Simon Dobson
To commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of WW1, the BFI National Archive has restored one of the finest films of the British silent era – a thrilling reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the early stages of the conflict. Filmed on real battleships supplied by the Admiralty, this monumental production was shot mostly at sea near Malta, with the Scilly Isles a convincing stand-in for the Falklands. You will even see shots of...
If you have any old or historic documents you’d like an expert opinion on or would like to find out more about the history of Plymouth then head to the ‘Archives from the Attic’ event on Saturday 25 May.
The free annual event, which will this year tie in with the city’s first ever History Festival , brings together experts from Plymouth City Council’s record office, the Friends of...
