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...
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...
Director: Walter Summers New Score: Simon Dobson Introduction by Simon Dobson
To commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of WW1, the BFI National Archive has restored one of the finest films of the British silent era – a thrilling reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the early stages of the conflict. Filmed on real battleships supplied by the Admiralty, this monumental production was shot mostly at sea near Malta, with the Scilly Isles a convincing stand-in for the Falklands. You will even see shots of...
Running time: 88 minutes | certificate: 15 UK | language: English
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley
Reece Shearsmith, co-creator of The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and one of the stars of A Field in England will be introducing the film and taking a Q & A session after the screening of Ben Wheatley’s fourth feature film.
Amid the Civil War in 17th century England, a group of deserters flee...
Running time: 108 minutes, certificate: 12 France/UK, language: English
Dir: Francois Truffaut Cast: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring.
Much admired by J. G. Ballard, this film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel is Truffaut’s only English language film. Set in the future where all books have been outlawed by a repressive regime, firemen are the Government force whose job it is to search for and destroy all literature by burning it. One of the firemen, Montag (Werner) begins to question his own actions and slowly becomes...
Running time: 97 minutes, certificate: 18 US/Canada, language: English
Dir: David Cronenberg Cast: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger.
David Cronenberg’s controversial Crash is adapted from his 1973 novel. After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard (Spader) finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. James' descent into this fetishistic underworld is approached with cold, scientific detachment. The film is a...
J.G. Ballard Series Plus an introduction to the J.G. Ballard Series by Anna Navas
Running time: 146 minutes, certificate: PG UK, language: English
Dir: Steven Spielberg Cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Based on J. G. Ballard’s autobiographical novel, Christian Bale stars as Jamie Graham, a spoiled young British boy living with his wealthy family in Shanghai on the eve of World War II. During the Japanese invasion he is separated from his parents and ends up in a prisoner of war camp where he falls under the care of two very...
The Ocean Film Festival World Tour returns to the UK this autumn after a highly successful first Tour in 2014. This year, due to popular demand, Britain’s Marine Capital will be included on the Tour schedule, offering audiences the chance to immerse themselves in the wonders of the ocean without getting their feet wet.
On 6 September, Plymouth will host the Tour’s inaugural open-air...
A city centre hotel will be the venue for an exhibition as artwork by students at Plymouth University is set to go on display later this month.
From film pieces to mixed media installations, the ‘Emergence’ exhibition, presented and curated by second year fine arts students at the Duke of Cornwall Hotel and the Council House, draws inspiration from the work of Plymouth based British...
