Devon and Cornwall Film

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Follow the title links for movie details, friendship and maybe more.

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE

Sweeney Todd (18) Click here to watch trailer

In The Valley Of Elah (15) Click here to watch trailer

TAVISTOCK WHARF

St Trinian’s (12A) Click here to watch trailer

DARTINGTON ARTS/THE BARN

The Band’s Visit (12A) Click here to watch trailer

Things We Lost In The Fire (15) Click here to watch trailer

Sweeney Todd (18) Click here to watch trailer

Bee Movie (U) Click here to watch trailer

4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (15) Click here to watch trailer

EXETER PICTUREHOUSE

My Blueberry Nights (12A) Click here to watch trailer

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (12A) Click here to watch trailer

There Will Be Blood (15) Click here to watch trailer

Black Orpheus (PG) Click here for Time Out review

THE POLY, FALMOUTH

Sweeney Todd (18) Click here to watch trailer

The Savages (15) Click here to watch trailer

If you want your local arthouse or cinema club featured in the Arthouse Roundup, send some details to info@dandcfilm.co.uk

The snappily named Marine Conservation Society Plymouth Local Group is hosting a meeting tonight (that’s Thursday) at the Marine Biological Association on Plymouth Hoe.

Plymouth Uni’s Dr Jason Hall-Spencer will be talking about recent research in the Arctic and showing a buncha pictures of cold water corals.

Then Antony Jinman, of Polar Venture, will have a yap about his career, from joining the Royal Navy to leading his own expedition to the Penny Ice Cap on Baffin Island (wherever the hell that is). Will he have a few pics of cold water corals to show too? Who knows?

What he will have, however, is the Dutch documentary, Silent Snow, which highlights the dilemma facing Inuit families as they become victims of climate change and pollution.

The meeting is free to Local Group members and MBA members, and £2 for everyone else.

The fun (and cold water corals) kicks off at 7pm. Click here for more details. Click below to watch the Silent Snow trailer. No, we’re not sure what’s so special about ’silent snow’ either. ‘Incredibly loud snow’ - now, that’d be noteworthy. Anyway…

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There’s a curious new video doing the rounds from D+C faves The Weaver Twins. It basically sees the combo dressed in Texas Chain Saw Massacre garb and playing along to an old ska song. Click below to have a look.

We got in contact with Ver Twins (as nobody calls them) to find out what the heck was going on.

Turns out, the vid’s a taster for their forthcoming Mama Weaver Lives promo. The band spent two days filming in a barn with production types Red Munkey (aka Darren Jones and Helen Brown) for what would basically end up being 30 seconds of footage in the eventual video.

Thinking it’d be a shame to let all the extra material go to waste, Darren edited it together to an old Trojan ska song by Clancy Eccles.

So, mystery solved. The band are continuing to shoot the Mama Weaver Lives video at the weekend so we should be able to see it very soon.

Stay tuned to D+CFilm for the latest Weaver Twins news.

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Tiverton Film Club’s next screening is the acclaimed Israeli/Palestinian drama Atash. It’s being shown tomorrow (February 27) at the New Hall, Barrington Street. Click below to watch the trailer.

Directed by Abu Wael, who Sight & Sound described as ‘the most exciting
Arab filmmaker in more than a decade’, it tells the tale of a father who
maroons his family in the desert after he feels his daughter has shamed them. Bit harsh, that.

Other treats in store over the coming months are I Is For India on March 19, Infamous on April 16 and classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers on May 21.

Doors for each screening open at 6.30pm and the movie starts at 7.30pm. New members are more than welcome (whatever than means) - for more details about the club, check out their lovely new website. Joining rates have been halved, so that full individual membership which gives free access to the remaining films is £14 and membership for couples is £22.50.

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BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker Molly Dineen will be hosting an exclusive screening of her most recent film The Lie of the Land at Falmouth’s University College on Wednesday,  February 27.

Molly will be yapping about the film, in which she explores the harsh realities of life as a British farmer, and about the not-so harsh realities of life as a documentary filmmaker.

Readers will no doubt remember Molly’s previous films, where she explored the harsh realities of being Tony Blair and Geri Halliwell…

Anyway, places for the screening are limited, so booking is essential. Email anna.kingsley@falmouth.ac.uk, or call 01326 370432 for tickets.

The event runs from 6pm to 8.30pm at Tremough Campus. Here’s a clip of Dineen answering questions at a Lie of the Land screening last year.

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Doesn’t time fly? Clue: it sure does. Yup, another Animated Exeter draws to a close this weekend with a coupla showings of Robert Zemeckis’ bawdy mo-cap wheeze Beowulf.

Those with reservations about the flick can be reassured it’s actually Very Entertaining Indeed. Heck, Zemeckis has been in this game so long, it’s no surprise the movie’s an extraordinarily confident and accomplished retelling of the story.

Granted, it bears very little relation to what you read in GCSE English, but when you’ve got Anthony Hopkins flashing his bum and a naked Angelina Jolie strutting around in high heels, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Catch Beowulf at Dartington’s Barn Cinema at 2.30pm today (that’s Saturday) - then, tomorrow, at 3pm.

Still not convinced? We don’t blame you - we took a lot of convincing too. You’ll just have to take our word for it, won’t you? In the meantime, here’s the trailer.

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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

Rescue Dawn (12A) Click here to watch trailer

The Extras (12A) Click here for Guardian review

TAVISTOCK WHARF

The Band’s Visit (12A) Click here to watch trailer��

DARTINGTON ARTS/THE BARN

Best Of The West Showcase (all ages)

Beowulf (12A) Click here to watch trailer

The Band’s Visit (12A) Click here to watch trailer

EXETER PICTUREHOUSE�

Animated Exeter 2008�- various events

My Blueberry Nights (12A) Click here to watch trailer

The Edge Of Heaven (18) Click here to watch trailer

Atonement (15) Click here to watch trailer

Alice In The Cities (U) Click here for Time Out review

Heima (PG) Click here to watch trailer

THE POLY, FALMOUTH

No Country For Old Men (15) Click here to watch trailer

Charlie Wilson’s War (15) Click here to watch trailer

If you want your local arthouse or cinema club featured in the Arthouse Roundup, send some details to info@dandcfilm.co.uk�����������

Animated Exeter is drawing to a close over the next coupla days - and they’ve saved the best ’til (almost) last.

Yup, there’s a special screening of Sylvain Chomet’s gloriously inventive and hugely influential Belleville Rendez-Vous at the University of Exeter tonight (c’est jeudi, monsieur).

This Oscar-nominated tale sees club-footed Madame Souza preparing her grandson to be a world-class cyclist. All is going well, until he is kidnapped by the mafia, so Souza plans a rescue with the help of her soppy mutt and three ageing Music Hall stars.

The whole thing is primarily dialogue free and laced with nods to the likes of Tex Avery and Max Fleischer, as well as moments of satire (it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out Belleville represents America) and genius (check out the doggy dream!).

In short, we really really really recommend it. The screening begins at 7.30pm and will cost you just £4.50 (£3.50 concs) to get in. Here’s a great clip to whet your appetite.

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We’re glad there’s a lot going on at Animated Exeter but it’s pretty difficult to catch everything you want to see.

Take tonight (Wednesday) for example. There’s a screening of Brad Bird’s Ratatouille at the University of Exeter at 7.30pm and a showing of Animal
Farm (no, not that one) at the Exeter Phoenix at 8pm. What’s a poor D+Cineaste to do?

Well, given that Ratatouille is out to rent this week (and is excellent BTW), we’d probably opt for Animal Farm - not least because it’s gonna be introduced by Halas & Batchelor expert (and offspring!) Vivien Halas.

Who the heck are Halas & Batchelor? They’re the husband/wife, animators/directors behind Animal Farm, as well as some 70 other flicks over the last 60 years or so.

Anyway, Vivien will be in the Phoenix bar after the screening to sign copies of her book Halas & Batchelor Cartoons - An Animated History.

Tickets for either Ratatouille or Animal Farm are £4.50 (£3.50 concs). Two films good… erm, four legs bad. Doesn’t really work, does it?

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The British Animation Public Choice Awards are wending their way from Exeter to Plymouth’s Jill Craigie Cinema (part of the Roland Levinsky Arts Building) this week.

There’s a show tonight (Wednesday) and another one tomorrow (duh, Thursday) - both introduced by artist and filmmaker Kayla Parker.

At each screening, D+Cineastes can vote for their fave flicks before the final winners are announced in March.

The shows will take in music videos, kids’ entertainment, TV ads and experimental art films. Click here for more details.

The fun on each night kicks off at 6.30pm and it’ll cost you a fiver to get in.
A snip!

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Masters Of Science Fiction is released by Anchor Bay as a double-disc set 
next week.

To celebrate, we’ve got a clip taken from one of the episodes. Written and directed by Michael Tolkin from a short story by Robert A. Heinlein, Jerry Was A Man sees Anne Heche’s dormant compassion being awakened by an anthropoid. Ah, that old chestnut.

Click here to have a look. It’s got a tiny elephant in it. And Malcolm McDowell. Yknow, like maybe that’d convince you.

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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

No Country For Old Men (15) Click here to watch trailer

Ne touchez pas la hache (15) Click here to watch trailer

TAVISTOCK WHARF

Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (U) Click here to watch trailer 

DARTINGTON ARTS/THE BARN

Charlie Wilson’s War (15) Click here to watch trailer

ExAnimation (12A) Click here for more details

Enchanted (PG) Click here to watch trailer

British Animation Awards (15) Click here for more details

No Country For Old Men (15) Click here to watch trailer

EXETER PICTUREHOUSE

Animated Exeter 2008 - various events 

Juno (12A) Click here to watch trailer

Michael Clayton (15) Click here to watch trailer

The Assassination Of Jessie James… (15) Click here to watch trailer 

Lightning Over Water (15) Click here to watch trailer

THE POLY, FALMOUTH

Dan In Real Life (PG) Click here to watch trailer

Lust, Caution (18) Click here to watch trailer

If you want your local arthouse or cinema club featured in the Arthouse Roundup, send some details to info@dandcfilm.co.uk          

Teign Film Society is gonna show Billy Wilder’s 1958 comedy classic Some Like It Hot tomorrow (thank Crunchie, that’s Friday).

You don’t really need us to tell you any more than that, do you? Suffice to say there’ll be plenty of spills, thrills, laughs, and games.

The screening starts at Teignmouth Community College’s arts centre at 8pm. Tickets are £5/£4 for non-members.

Here’s the Some Like It Hot trailer. ‘You’ve never laughed more at sex’? Well, we beg to differ…

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A free film screening and discussion will be held tomorrow (Friday) to raise awareness about sustainable living.

Plymouth Environment Centre and the Centre for Sustainable Futures are showing EcoVillage Pioneers, which features a couple who built a sustainable home and transformed a council’s policy on rural housing.

The 50-minute flick will be shown in the University of Plymouth’s Devonport lecture theatre on Portland Square. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

Click below to watch the EcoVillage Pioneers trailer.

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Phoenix Media is offering a short film bursary aimed at filmmakers with exciting original ideas. Aw, and we had a bunch of dull, second-hand ideas ready to shoot. Not fair!

Anyway, all films will be screened at Exeter Phoenix’s Two Short Nights event in December.

A sum of up to £500 will be offered towards the budget of the flicks, which will be based on an original script or treatment.

Phoenix Media will also assist with the use of camera, lighting, sound, studio and post-production facilities.

In order to qualify for the bursary, you must reside in Devon and be prepared to produce the finished movie within five months of the original submission.

There’s also a digital media bursary going begging, which aims to develop multimedia production skills and to encourage creative digital arts that use or subvert new technologies.

Ideas can be interactive, generative, visual, sonic, site-specific, installation based, web-based, DVD, PDA or mobile phone based - the list is, as they say, endless.

The bursary includes £750 towards training, materials and other production costs, plus support from Phoenix Media and use of facilities. There is also funding available to help realise the project within an exhibition setting at Exeter Phoenix.

The closing date for all applications is February 29 so you’d best get your proverbial skates on. Click here for more details.

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