By Noah Bridle The Little Mermaid (PG)   Wednesday 31st July, 11am Wednesday 7th August, 2:30pm  Disney’s live-action remake of the animation classic The Little Mermaid follows Ariel, the strongest  daughter of King Triton, as she searches for what could be waiting for her above the surface. She and  her father’s lives are threatened by the... The post Meet Ariel, Marcel, Joy and Bastian – the summer’s films introduced. appeared first on Plymouth Arts Cinema | Independent Cinema for Everyone | located at Arts University Plymouth ..read more

Most of this film takes place at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, where Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna took residence in June 1938 after escaping from Nazi-occupied Vienna. In his ‘den’ filled with his library of books and religious objects, Freud lives in what he regards as an echo of his former home. Taking place in early September 1939, just days before his assisted suicide, he is visited by C.S. Lewis, a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford. As the father of psychoanalysis, Freud, is not impressed by Lewis’s firm belief in Christianity. Today Lew ..read more

We celebrated our Muddy Stilettos Devon Award on a lovely sunny evening at Shilstone Manor. Thank you for voting us best Arts, Culture and Theatre venue in Devon! Here are Charlotte and Manon collecting the certificate. It was great to meet and chat with the other winners. We’re now up for the national awards – wish us luck! The post Best Arts, Culture and Theatre Venue – Muddy Stilettos Awards appeared first on Plymouth Arts Cinema | Independent Cinema for Everyone | located at Arts University Plymouth ..read more

Plymouth Arts Cinema is looking to appoint several new Trustees to expand the diversity and range of skills and experience on the Board, currently comprised of 4 Trustees. We are hoping to recruit 2 to 3 people who are passionate about PAC’s vision and who can bring knowledge, skills and experience in one or more of these areas: Legal and Charity Law Marketing Philanthropy Private sector business Environmental sustainability This is not an exhaustive list, so if you don’t fit into it, but you believe you can make a positive contribution to PAC’s governance then do please get in touch. We want ..read more

#Noticethistree is a series of interventions about protest and loss across the UK www.noticethistree.org On the 14th May as part of Plymouth’s Urban Tree Festival 2024 run by Plymouth Tree People, we invited people to come together to ‘Notice This Tree’ in  #Noticethistree Intervention No. 4, at Plymouth Arts Cinema. After walking to the cinema from their favourite tree in Plymouth, people to contributed to an ever-evolving Mycelium Mundus tapestry, share stories of trees, and listened to a specially created audio work which played as people entered the auditorium to w ..read more

Following fast on the heels of Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition, Exhibition on Screen again focuses on one of the year’s most talked-about art shows. Their film, John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger, explores the Tate Britain and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Sargent and Fashion. The show has already created headlines, with some art critics accusing the John Singer Sargent portraits, and some of the clothing featured in them, as being nothing more than a superficial glance at 19th century society and culture. Visually engaging, but lacking depth. Too much chiffon and taffeta – where’s the ..read more

YOUR FAT FRIEND   Just say “fat”. As an opening gambit, Jeanie Finlay’s documentary isn’t shy about throwing around the F word. Your Fat Friend doesn’t tiptoe around the issue of fatness, but approaches it unapologetically. A film that documents both individual and collective experience, Your Fat Friend is a fearless exploration (and explanation) of what it’s like living in a world not designed for you. The film’s focus is author and podcast presenter, Aubrey Gordon. Finlay follows Gordon over a six-year period as she negotiates her way through a publishing deal all the way to a post-pand ..read more

Anyone who visits the cinema regularly will know that finding a film that stays with you, long after the credits have rolled, is an increasingly rare experience. In Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, the mark left on the audience is indelible.  Loosely based on the Martin Amis novel, The Zone of Interest details the life of Commandant Rudolf Hoss, who oversees the running of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In a series of astonishing reveals, we learn that his spacious family home backs directly onto the camp itself; only a wall divides them. Rudolf (played by Christ ..read more

On Saturday 20th January, Fotonow ran a guided photography walk exploring Plymouth in the afternoon, with the theme Document Your Community. Emma Booth from Fotonow gave an introduction to the film Tish and talk about Fotonow’s socially engaged approach to photography. “It was fantastic to be able to programme and collaborate on an event with Plymouth Arts Cinema, I was thrilled to see that they were showing a screening of Tish and designed the FOTOWALK event to revolve around social documentary photography in line with her work. It’s clear that Tish Murtha’s legacy goes far beyond the images ..read more

A fantasy that blends science fiction with High Victoriana, Poor Things – a 1992 novel from Glaswegian author Alasdair Gray – seems a project tailor-made for director Yorgos Lanthimos.  The story is mired in Gothic horror. A young Victorian woman – wealthy, well-dressed – stands on a bridge, contemplating the water below. She jumps to her death. A pioneering doctor, Godwin Baxter (played by Willem Dafoe), rescues the body from the river, and in a gleeful homage to classic cinema, we see the woman hooked up to electrodes and crudely (but successfully) resurrected. She is named Bella Baxter ..read more