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SWATS team

Here’s a dull but worthy story for you on a Tuesday morning. Tell you what – we’ll try and keep it short, yeah?

Eleven trainees on a media placement scheme in the region were celebrating
at Bristol’s Goldbrick House recently as their year-long training stint came to
an end.

The event was a chance for the South West Attachment Scheme (abbreviated, [...]

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Animated response (video)

If you’re a budding animator, you only have a few more days to submit your meisterwerk for next year’s Animated Exeter festival.

Yup, the deadline for entries is November 2 (that’s this Friday, diary frotters!) 
so you’d better get a wriggle on.

Categories include Best of the West (open to South West student animators), Exanimation (open to children, young [...]

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Arthouse roundup: Oct 26-Nov 1

Follow the main cinema links for dates, times and matinee screenings.
Follow the title links for movie details, friendship and maybe more.

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE

The Singer (12A) Click here to watch trailer

And When Did You Last See Your Father? (12A) Click here to watch trailer

TAVISTOCK WHARF 

Evan Almighty (PG) Click here to watch trailer

DARTINGTON ARTS/THE BARN

Surf’s Up (PG) Click [...]

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Game bird (video)

You may remember we were talking about Funny Games the other day (click here to refresh your memory) and how it was getting its UK premiere at the London Film Festival.

Well, our LFF spies tell us that stars Naomi Watts, Brady Corbet and Michael Pitt were all in attendance over the weekend and introduced the film together.

No [...]

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Here comes the Hammer (video)

Fifty years ago, Hammer Films released their first horror movie, The Curse of Frankenstein, beginning a series of flicks which changed the face of cinema.

Over the years Hammer has been the subject of loadsa books, essays and documentaries. Now, Hammer has given active backing to a fully-authorised history of the company.

Compiled with unlimited access to the [...]

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Ruff guide (video)

There’s a special advance screening of Elizabeth: The Golden Age at Exeter Picturehouse tomorrow night (that’ll be Thursday, then).

The film starts at 7.30pm and will be followed by one of those live satellite Q&A thingies, featuring star Geoffrey Rush and director Shekhar Kapur.

And if all that’s not enough for you, there’ll also be live Elizabethan music courtesy of Quodlings [...]

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Be my fest (video)

We’re so good at wittering on about other people’s film festivals, that we’ve neglected to bug you about our own film festivals.

We’ve decided it’s high time we started blowing our own trumpet for a change, so here’s all the D+CFilm festival news in a handy ‘cut out and keep’ format.

First up, is The View From Here, running [...]

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Great reception (video)

As this year’s Motion Plymouth festival gets ever nearer, we’ve been talking to MP co-director Katie Thompson about the event’s swanky awards ceremony.

It’s set to be the first private shindig held at Plymouth’s unique and innovative Roland Levinsky Building, which has been nominated for a major architectural award this year.

Katie told D+CFilm: “This is going to be [...]

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Join our club

A free Saturday Cinema Club takes place in St Budeaux parish church hall, in Plymouth, on the first Saturday of every month.

The next one takes place on November 3 and runs from 10am to 2pm. Kids aged five to 11 are welcome, while parents can mooch about in the lower hall, guzzling coffee and yapping.

No change there, then, eh [...]

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Karas sell

The long-awaited sequel to the hit anime feature, Karas: The Prophecy is out on DVD this week through Manga Entertainment.

Karas: The Revelation boasts an innovative hybrid of 2-D and 3-D CGI animation techniques and features the vocal ‘talents’ of Hostel’s Jay Hernandez and tongue-poking tosser Matthew Lillard. There’s also a soaring score performed by the Prague [...]