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By D+CFilm, on Thursday, January 31, 2008
Don’t mention the wooden eye and top hat; don’t mention the mohican; and don’t mention the left foot – Daniel Day-Lewis, whose roles are a litany of must sees, will be doing the Q&A thing at the Exeter Picturehouse on Monday, February 11 at 6.45pm.
The star’s image will be pinged, via satellite, from glamorous Clapham [...]
By D+CFilm, on Thursday, January 31, 2008
If you just lurve animated films, then celebrate Valentine’s Day (almost) at this year’s Animated Exeter shindig.
It all kicks off on February 15, with animated antics at The Picturehouse, the Exeter Phoenix, the Spacex Gallery, Exeter College, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter Library and Exeter University.
Stay tuned to D+CFilm over the next few weeks for [...]
By D+CFilm, on Wednesday, January 30, 2008
You’ll be pleased to hear that Plymouth City Council’s planning committee has voted unanimously in favour of the Royal William Yard film studio and production offices.
The committee said it hoped the proposed studio would bring employment to the city, but planning approval was dependant on the site’s flood defences being approved.
As we told you on [...]
By D+CFilm, on Tuesday, January 29, 2008
While flicking through the latest issue of Sight & Sound magazine, we were surprised to stumble across the following comment by Crash director Paul Haggis in a story about how the Iraq War is being represented on-screen.
He said: “To make a film like Transformers at a time of war is a political act.”
Haggis didn’t go into any [...]
By D+CFilm, on Monday, January 28, 2008
One Plymouth TV’s long-mooted (heck, we were talking about it back in August) studio and production offices could finally be built at the Royal William Yard if planners give the scheme the thumbs up.
The application for a film studio in a 6,000sq ft slaughterhouse at the Royal William Yard, will be considered by Plymouth City Council’s planning committee tomorrow (that’s Tuesday, [...]
By D+CFilm, on Friday, January 25, 2008
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 Kite Runner (12A) Click here to watch trailer
Anna M (15) Click here to watch trailer
TAVISTOCK WHARF
Lions For Lambs (15) Click here to watch trailer
DARTINGTON ARTS/THE BARN
Les Chansons d’Amour (15) Click here to [...]
By D+CFilm, on Thursday, January 24, 2008
Harpist to the stars, as well as committed filmmaker in her own right, Elizabeth-Jane Baldry will be accompanying FW Murnau’s 1927 silent classic Sunrise at the Blue Walnut Cafe in Torquay on Saturday.
Regular readers will already know that the Blue Walnut Cafe is the smallest, and possibly hippest, cinema in England, with only 24 seats.
Elizabeth-Jane [...]
By D+CFilm, on Thursday, January 24, 2008
Hailed by The London Paper as ‘the best comedy of 2007′ and by Empire magazine as ‘a real charmer of a movie’, Kenny is a funny, touching and beautifully observed mocumentary straight outta the Christopher Guest school of filmmaking.
A runaway box office smash in its native Australia, Kenny tells the tale of an affable waste management [...]
By D+CFilm, on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Exeter-based national magazine DVD Monthly is celebrating its 100th edition with a list of the top 100 DVDs.
Wrongheaded readers voted Lord Of The Rings – Extended Editions Box Set as the toppermost of the poppermost (nice extras, shame about the movies), with the Star Wars Trilogy Episodes IV-VI and the Alien Quadrilogy Box Set second and [...]
By D+CFilm, on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
A new project in Exeter is giving adults with learning disabilities the chance to make a movie.
The scheme is being run by Exeter-based charity Community, Equality, Disability Action and community arts company Means of Production. There will be four half-day workshops and five days’ filming on location, finishing with an event in March.
Participants don’t need any prior [...]
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