Films

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

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...

Watch films under the stars at Plymouth Arts Centre’s unique Open Air Cinema by the sea

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...

Cinema one of the most popular activities for SW families

Ahead of all the great family films coming to screens this summer, Vue Entertainment asked the public about their perfect day out with the family.

Unsurprisingly some of the nation’s favourite activities include a day at the beach and the park with their loved ones.

However, 60% of parents in the South West would choose a trip to the cinema with their family over going to the...

Family films on the Big Screen

Buckle up for an exciting adventure with this year's fantastic schedule of blockbusters on the big screen

Film timings are 11am, 1pm and 3pm on each of the following dates

27 July - The Good Dinosaur

In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side by side, an Apatosaurus name Ario makes an unlikely human friend.

3 August - Kung Fu Panda 3

Continuing his...

MONDO MONDAY presents: They Live!

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

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Johnny's House of Horror presents: I Start Counting (1970)

Running time: 107 minutes

Certificate: AA UK

Language: English

Director: David Greene

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...

Tell England (1931)

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...

Autumn films at Plymouth Arts Centre

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...

Caerhays Cinema on the Beach

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.

The Caerhays Beach Café will be open late...

Plymouth Film Festival

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

01752 206114

www.plymouthartscentre.org.uk

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