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Film: West Side Story

Shakespeare is celebrated in film adaptations that attracted the greatest contemporary composers of the day.

Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story remains the most successful musical film at the Oscars, winning 10 in all. Set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s, two youngsters from rival gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Bernstein’s superb score energises the excitement, melodrama and despair.

Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English at Plymouth University will give a short pre-screening...

Film: King Lear

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building
Event Date: 
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 19:00
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Shakespeare is celebrated in film adaptations that attracted the greatest contemporary composers of the day.

Kozintsev's gripping version of King Lear provides unforgettable scenes from the grand entrance of Lear to divide his kingdom, to the final muddy battlefield. As Kozintsev wrote, “In Shostakovich's music I can hear a ferocious hatred of cruelty, the cult of power and the oppression of justice ... a fearless goodness which has a threatening quality.”

Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English at Plymouth University will give a short pre-screening...

Film: Henry V

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building
Event Date: 
Monday, April 25, 2016 - 19:00
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Shakespeare is celebrated in film adaptations that attracted the greatest contemporary composers of the day.

Laurence Olivier was mustered out of the navy to film this adaptation of Shakespeare’s historic Henry V. Embroiled in World War II, Britons took courage from this tale of a king who surmounts overwhelming odds and emerges victorious.

This sumptuous Technicolor rendering features a thrilling re-creation of the battle of Agincourt. Walton’s music is both epic in battle and intimate in the moments of passion. Olivier’s Henry V is inevitably bound to its Second World War...

Film: Effie Gray

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building
Event Date: 
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 19:00
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From the first motion pictures onwards, the Victorian city has captured the imagination of filmmakers and audiences alike. From Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and Hammer Horror to the bustled heroines of period drama, ideas about sex and the city are never far beneath the surface of London’s panorama on screen.

Join us as we look through the lens of the Victorian art world at the lives of men and women in the period.

The famous love triangle between the Pre-Raphaelite model and muse Effie Gray, the painter John Everett Millais and the art critic John Ruskin is the subject...

Film: Possession

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building
Event Date: 
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 19:00
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From the first motion pictures onwards, the Victorian city has captured the imagination of filmmakers and audiences alike. From Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and Hammer Horror to the bustled heroines of period drama, ideas about sex and the city are never far beneath the surface of London’s panorama on screen.

Join us as we look through the lens of the Victorian art world at the lives of men and women in the period.

The lives of two modern day academics (Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart) become entwined with the clandestine romance of two poets in the Victorian period....

Film: Mr Turner

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building
Event Date: 
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 19:00
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From the first motion pictures onwards, the Victorian city has captured the imagination of filmmakers and audiences alike. From Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and Hammer Horror to the bustled heroines of period drama, ideas about sex and the city are never far beneath the surface of London’s panorama on screen.

Join us as we look through the lens of the Victorian art world at the lives of men and women in the period.

The colourful life of one of Britain’s most celebrated painters, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) is the subject of Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed biographical...

Film: Thinking Space

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinksy Building
Event Date: 
Friday, April 22, 2016 - 18:30
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The relationship between art and mathematics has a long, rich and complex history, with both artists and mathematicians drawing inspiration from one another to investigate new ideas.

In 2015, to mark their 150th anniversary, The London Mathematical Society selected artists, Mark Francis and George L–Legendre, to create new work drawing on mathematical ideas. Heidi Morstang was also commissioned to produce a film ‘Thinking Space’, which explores how mathematicians think.

‘Thinking Space’

How do mathematicians think? This 60 minute documentary film features nine UK-...

Film: Thinking Space

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinksy Building
Event Date: 
Friday, April 22, 2016 - 18:30

The relationship between art and mathematics has a long, rich and complex history, with both artists and mathematicians drawing inspiration from one another to investigate new ideas.

In 2015, to mark their 150th anniversary, The London Mathematical Society selected artists, Mark Francis and George L–Legendre, to create new work drawing on mathematical ideas. Heidi Morstang was also commissioned to produce a film ‘Thinking Space’, which explores how mathematicians think.

‘Thinking Space’

How do mathematicians think? This 60 minute documentary film features nine UK-...

Cultural investigation of lost communities wins inaugural Peninsula Arts Film Commission

A film inspired by folklore and an abandoned hovel in North Devon has been selected as the winner of an inaugural film competition.

Rasher / memory landscape is the brainchild of James W. Norton, and will be shown at an event in May after securing the 2016 Peninsula Arts Film Commission.

An experienced filmmaker, James has previously worked on projects for the Old Royal Naval...

MONDO MONDAY: Presents Groundhog Day

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Event Date: 
Monday, March 14, 2016 - 19:00
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Director: Harold Ramis, 1993, US

Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Tobolowsky

"What would you do if you got to live the same day over and over again? What would you do if you got to live the same day over and over again? What would you do….alright, you get the idea. Mondo Monday returns once again to the Jill Craigie Cinema as we celebrate the arrival of spring in fine style with the return of Mr Bill Murray in what we’d probably argue is his finest hour (apart from Ghostbusters, but we’ve already done that one). We got all sorts of surprises planned for this...

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