Brief Encounter is one of the greatest films of love found and love lost. In a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets Dr. Alec Harvey. Although they are already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday in the small cafe, although they know that their love is impossible.
Heart- warming and tragic, it is a film that continues to endure, depicting a doomed couple's illicit connection with affecting sensitivity and a pair of powerful performances. Often discussed and rarely seen on the big screen – it will leave a...
Monday 27 February, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. Out of ideas, he starts to recall major happenings in his life and all the women he has loved and left. An...
Monday 20 February, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim Running time: 106 minutes Cert: PG
In one of the most famous Hollywood openings, William Holden’s bankrupt screenwriter floats dead, face-down in the swimming pool of faded star of the silent screen, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), and starts narrating the story of his demise. With a cast that...
Monday 13 February, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Dir: John Carpenter Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh Running time: 86 mins Cert: 15
“Listen….Do you hear the: voices coming through THE FOG? Listen….They’re calling for you. They deliver a message….”
They say…come and see The Fog…very specific for a ghostly voice! Mondo Monday is back for an immersive night of sea shanties, undead fishermen and spine...
A rare and not-to-be-missed opportunity to see this on the big screen Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer Running time: 88 mins Cert: PG
Dreyer’s Joan of Arc was based on the original transcripts of her trial but it isn’t the historical accuracy that keeps the film in your mind. It has gained almost mythical status largely due to Falconetti’s portrayal of Joan which is still considered to be the greatest performance in the history of cinema. Based on the original transcripts of Joan of Arc’s trial, this silent masterpiece has gained almost mythical status largely due to Falconetti’s portrayal...
Sun 26 February 11:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University Free admission, booking advised
Alexis Kirke
A story of religion and song is constructed live for the cinema audience, about an avowed Buddhist and professional soprano, Lois. This short narrative film is an emotional Artificial Intelligence that re-cuts itself based on how it is ‘feeling’. It is partly driven by a quantum computer installed at the University of Southern California. Supported by the Creative Cultivator at Plymouth University who nurture and deliver engagement and knowledge transfer between...
Monday 20 March, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Dir: Alex Cox Cast: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman Running time: 114 mins Cert: 18 Gary Oldman plays Sid Vicious, bass guitarist of the Sex Pistols, with Chloe Webb as his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in an ill-fated King and Queen of alternative rock. Their mutually destructive, heroin-fuelled relationship tests Sid's relations with the rest of the Pistols and ultimately leads to a terrible night in...
Monday 13 March, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
“Incredibly stylish and visually ravishing” **** Empire
Dir: Jean-Jacques Beineix Cast: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer Running time: 117 mins Cert: 15
This atmospheric thriller is the twisted tale of two tapes; one, the illegal bootlegged recording of an American opera star, the other, evidence of a crime. The film broke all of the accepted rules of cinema at the time...
