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38 Looe Street, Plymouth, PL4 0EB01752 206114www.plymouthartscentre.org
Changes to our Building and Box Office opening hours:
- Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: Box Office phone line open from 3pm to 8.30pm. Building and Box Office counter open from 5pm to 8.30pm.
- Wednesday and Saturday: Building, Box Office phone line and counter open from 1 to 8.30pm
- Sunday and Monday Closed
- Bar: Open Tuesday to Friday 5-9pm, Saturday 4.30-8.30pm. Also open on Saturday and Wednesday from1pm to 3pm for Matinées screenings.
Cinema Tickets Standard £9.00 / Concessions, students, OAPs £7.75 / Matinees £7.00 / Bringing in Baby £8.50 / 25 & Under £4 / Friends 75p discount. Online booking fee £1.50. NT Live / RSC Live Tickets: £14 / £12 concessions. Advance booking recommended. We have two wheelchair spaces in the cinema.
Faces Places (12A)
Thu 27 Sep – Tue 2 Oct
Thu 27 Sep, 7pm (Reclaim the Frame screening)
Tue 2 Oct, 5.45pm
Dir. Agnes Varda, France, 2017, 89 mins, subtitled.
With. Agnes Varda, JR.
Screening as part of Reclaim the Frame. Thursday’s screening will be introduced by BEV and followed by a post-film Q&A.
Marking a long-awaited return to filmmaking in the year of her 90th birthday, Face Places sees iconic filmmaker Agnès Varda forging an unexpected collaboration with photographer JR as they embark on a road trip like no other in JR’s photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France and meeting its humble residents. What follows is a heart-warming insight into unnamed communities, documented here in Varda’s typically playful and tender manner. A Cannes Film Festival award-winner and Academy Award nominee, Faces Places is a deeply charming and life-affirming look at not only the subtle power of community, but the inspiration that comes from the most cross-generational of friendships.
BlacKKKlansman (15)
Tues 2 – Fri 5 Oct
Tue 2, 8.15pm
Wed 3, 5.45pm
Thu 4, 8.15pm
Fri 5, 5.45pm
Dir. Spike Lee, US, 2018, 128 mins.
Cast. John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier.
Spike Lee makes a triumphant return to form with this furious and often funny true-life tale of a black cop who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. Ron Stallworth was the real-life black detective who went undercover in the late 70s to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Though he communicates with members on the phone he sends his white, Jewish partner to 'stand in' for him at meetings and rallies. Lee clearly sees in Stallworth's story a way to take a temperature read on Trump's America and has made a film that is impossible to ignore.
The Children Act (12A)
Wed 3 – Wed 10 Oct
Wed 3, 2.30pm & 8.30pm
Thu 4, 5.45pm
Fri 5, 8.30pm
Wed 10, 6pm
Dir. Richard Eyre, UK, 2018, 105 mins.
Cast. Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead.
Hot on the heels of On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan again adapts his own novel in this riveting drama about a High Court judge who finds her personal and professional crises colliding. This moving drama follows Fiona, a judge who is married to her work - as her own marriage flounders. She must decide if Adam a 17-year-old with leukaemia, should have a blood transfusion that will save his life - against his Jehovah's Witness beliefs. Fiona finds herself taking unusual measures to reach her final verdict - measures that will have far-reaching consequences. This is a heart-breaking, intelligent and sophisticated drama that brings to life complex moral questions.
The Guardians (15)
Sat 6 – Thu 11 Oct
Sat 6, 2.30pm & 8pm
Thu 11, 5.45pm
Dir. Xavier Beauvois, France, 2018, 135 mins, subtitled.
Cast. Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry.
The latest film from Xavier Beauvois (Gods and Men) is a powerful drama depicting a mother and daughter’s struggles to keep the family farm together during the Great War. This richly compassionate, fiercely acted and beautifully shot period drama is about the second conflict, the battle of wills on the home front, as its characters struggle to maintain life at home. A way of life, with its Hardyesque seasonal rhythms of sowing and reaping, is minutely, sumptuously depicted. But all the time in the background – in the letters home, in the muttered hints of the grim-faced men on leave and their shell-shocked dreams – is the horror of war.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (15)
Sat 6 – Thu 11 Oct
Sat 6, 5.30pm
Wed 10, 2.30pm
Thu 11, 8.30pm
Dir. Desiree Akhavan, US, 2018, 92 mins.
Cast. Chloe Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane
Desiree Akhavan follows up Appropriate Behaviour with this tremendous drama about a teen sent off to a 'gay reform camp' that scooped the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. When Cameron Post is caught making out with a girl on prom night, she is promptly shipped off to a religious summer camp to undergo conversion therapy alongside other teens "struggling with SSA" (same sex attraction). At the facility, she is subjected to outlandish discipline, dubious "de-gaying" methods, and earnest Christian rock songs - but the unusual setting also provides her with an unlikely gay community. For the first time, Cameron finds solidarity with friends and learns how to navigate (and survive) an intolerant world. This a queer female-centred coming of age film that brims with authenticity, hope and humour - and it's long overdue.
The Rider (15)
Tue 9 – Fri 12 Oct
Tue 9, 7pm (Reclaim the Frame screening)
Wed 10, 8.30pm
Fri 12, 6pm
Dir. Chloé Zhao, US, 2018, 104 mins.
Cast. Brady Jandreau, Lane Scott, Lily Jandreau.
Screening as part of Reclaim the Frame. Tuesday’s screening will be introduced by BEV and followed by a post-film Q&A.
Chloé Zhao’s award-winning impressionistic drama casts real-life wrangler Brady Jandreau as a South Dakota cowboy struggling to chart a new course after a terrible injury sustained in the saddle. “A horse’s purpose is to run in the prairies; a cowboy’s is to ride.” So, what does a cowboy become when he can no longer ride? This is the question at the heart of The Rider. Retaining a docudrama aesthetic, Zhao integrates the real lives of her actors into her storytelling and creates something truly transcendent that explores both notions of masculinity and the mythology of the American west. A truly, astonishingly beautiful film.
The Seagull (12A)
Fri 12 – Thu 18 Oct
Fri 12, 8.30pm
Sat 13, 8pm
Tue 16, 6pm
Wed 17, 2.30pm & 8.30pm
Thu 18, 6pm
Dir. Michael Mayer, US, 2018, 99 mins.
Cast. Elizabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll.
One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a story unfolds about art, fame, and human folly. A faithful Chekhov adaptation, the film confirms Saoirse Ronan’s versatility and star status.
Summer 1993 (12A)
Sat 13 – Thu 18 Oct
Sat 13, 5.30pm
Tue 16, 8.30pm
Wed 17, 6pm
Thu 18, 8.30pm
Dir. Carla Simon, Spain, 2017, 97 mins, subtitled.
Cast. Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusi, David Verdaguer.
Simón’s debut is an evocative and profoundly affecting depiction of childhood and family lost and found, marking the arrival of a major new voice in world cinema. In the summer of 1993, following the death of her parents, six-year old Frida is moved to live with her aunt and uncle. The couple’s own daughter Anna, younger than Frida, welcomes her new sister with open arms but Frida has a hard time coping with her emotions. Even as the new family begins to find a fragile balance, the source of her parents’ passing casts a shadow over how Frida is treated by the local community. This is very special film experience, which proves that even the most familiar stories can seem brand new when told with such empathy, authenticity and beauty.
The Spirit of the Beehive (PG)
Sat 13 Oct, 2.30pm
Dir. Victor Erice, Spain, 1973, 95 mins, subtitled.
Cast. Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería.
Screening to complement Summer 1993, Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end, The Spirit of the Beehive is a bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made.
Cold War (15)
Fri 19 – Thu 25 Oct
Fri 19, 6pm
Sat 20, 2.30pm & 8pm
Tue 23, 6pm
Wed 24, 8.30pm
Thu 25, 6pm
Dir. Pawel Pawelikowski, Poland/France/UK, 2018, 89 mins, subtitled.
Cast. Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc.
Pawel Pawlikowski wowed Cannes (and picked up a Best Director prize) with this gorgeously crafted love story of a pair of mismatched musicians shuttling back and forth across the Iron Curtain. In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor and Zula fall in love. As performing musicians forced to play into the Soviet propaganda machine, they dream of escaping to the creative freedom of the West. But one day, as they spot their chance to make a break for Paris, both make a split decision that will mark their lives forever. With a stunning soundtrack that takes you from the rustic folk songs of rural Poland to the sultry jazz of a Paris basement bar this is a heartbreakingly personal film.
The Little Stranger (12A)
Fri 19 – Thu 25 Oct
Fri 19, 8.30pm
Sat 20, 5.30pm
Tue 23, 8.30pm
Wed 24, 2.30pm & 6pm
Thu 25, 8.30pm
Dir. Lenny Abrahamson, UK/Ireland/France, 2018, 111 mins.
Cast. Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter.
Lenny Abrahamson (Room) directs this unsettling film, set in a declining country house after the Second World War. Domhnall Gleeson plays country doctor Faraday, who is called to care for the inhabitants - Charlotte Rampling as the matriarch, Ruth Wilson as her daughter, and Will Poulter as the son physically and psychologically damaged by combat. Faraday falls in love with the house and the family, but their maladies are beyond his power to cure: they are haunted by a dying way of life, as well as something far more ominous. Adapted from the novel by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger is a potent gothic horror.
American Animals (15)
Fri 26 Oct – Thu 1 Nov
Fri 26, 6pm
Sat 27, 2.30pm & 8pm
Tue 30, 6pm
Wed 31, 8.30pm
Thu 1, 6pm
Dir. Bart Leyton, UK/US, 2018, 117 mins.
Cast. Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Ann Dowd, Barry Keoghan.
The heist film is turned inside out in this wildly entertaining true-life tale focusing on four dim witted college friends who, inspired by their favourite movies, hatch a scheme to steal a multi-million dollar book collection. In 2004 four students, inspired by films like Ocean’s 11 and The Italian Job plan to steal priceless books from their university’s special collections library. Armed with disguises, a stun pen and a minivan they set off on a mission to pull off one of the most audacious art thefts in recent history. A hugely enjoyable, high energy tale about four misguided men searching in all the wrong places for identity, meaning, and adventure.
The Wife (15)
Fri 26 Oct – Thu 1 Nov
Fri 26, 8.30pm
Sat 27, 5.30pm
Tue 30, 8.30pm
Wed 31, 2.30pm & 6pm
Thu 1, 8.30pm
Dir. Bjorn Rung, UK/Sweden, 2017, 100 mins.
Cast. Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater.
Joe Castleman is being given the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he and wife Joan couldn’t be happier. But from the moment the couple arrive in Stockholm, tensions rise. A nosy, insistent would-be biographer is loitering in the hotel lobby, Joe and Joan’s son David (Max Irons), eternally irked at living in his father’s shadow, sulks through the celebrations and with all the attention being paid to Joe’s long career, the normally shy Joan is pushed uncomfortably into the spotlight, where long-kept secrets are in danger of being illuminated. An incisive study of celebrity, marriage, and the creative process, this is also as a showcase for acting of Close and Pryce.