“We believe that young people are the future… of film,” croon those tuneful buffs at Plymouth Arts Centre, but the words don’t stop there.
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Live John Garden (Scissor Sisters) soundtrack to silent movie in Exeter
Scissor Sisters’ musical director and keyboard player John (JJ) Garden has composed a new semi-improvised score for the innovative stop-motion dinosaur picture of 1925, The Lost World at the Exeter Phoenix.
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Kes at the Barn Cinema, Dartington. Part of Interrogate! social just festival
Barry Hines’ story has shaped generations both in book form -Barry Hines’ A Kestral For a Knave -and as Ken Loach’s film, Kes. Now on a re-release 42 years after first coming onto the screen, the movie -which is in the British Film Insitute’s top ten films to see before the age of 14 -seems even more poignant.
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Interrogate! film at Dartington Barn: A Better Life
What to look for in a film that features in the Interrogate! social justice conference? A movie set in LA which focuses the Hispanic community and echoes the Neo-realist classic The Bicycle Thieves, perhaps? Well that’s just what they’ve got in the form of A Better World.
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Interrogate! at Dartington film: In A Better World
Interrogate! the UK’s first social justice festival is at taking place Dartington, Devon. And in the venue’s Barn Cinema they’ll be running a number of social justify type movies
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Comedy and oppression: The Prison Where I Live screened in Totnes for TTT film night
The documentary about comedy and oppression, This Prison Where I Live, is being screened by Transition Town Totnes at its TTT film night.
The City of God of surf movies? Rio Breaks does the rounds of the South West
Tom Leins trades bullets for boards as he checks out new documentary Rio Breaks, which is playing in cinemas across the West Country this month.
As film fans know from watching violent thrillers such as City of God, life in the slums of Rio De Janeiro can be tough, with few viable distractions to keep youngsters on the straight and narrow. Surprisingly, just a stone’s throw away from the notorious Favela do Pavao -an enormous slum dominated by the violent Commando Vermelho drug gang -is Arpoador Beach, the unlikely training ground for a generation of top surfers.
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Film Night at the Tavistock Wharf as part of the Tavistock Music and Arts Festival
There an evening of exciting and diverse short films by Devon filmmakers at the Tavistock Wharf as part of the Tavistock Music and Arts Festival on Tuesday, April 26 at 7.3pm.
Watch Desire at the Exeter Phoenix
Desire explores the link between sex and creativity through the story of a screenwriter struggling with a character who threatens to take over not just his creative and sexual life but his sanity.
Howl in Exeter
Go bebopping and scatting with James Franco as he reanimates Allen Ginsberg and the performance poem Howl -which caused a furore and obscenity trial at the time -in the film Howl.
Kurosawa classic Ran at the Exeter Picturehouse
Ran, one of the last films of cinema legend Akira Kurosawa, is loosely based on the King Lear, and getting a one-night only slot at the Exeter Picturehouse.
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Battle: Los Angeles in Devon and Cornwall
Michelle Rodriguez has punched an action niche for herself since her knockout debut in Girlfight, way back in 2000. Her latest outing is in sci fi flick Battle: Los Angeles.
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Hall Pass in Devon and Cornwall
The Farrelly brothers (There’s Something About Mary, Me Myself & Irene, and Shallow Hal) are getting older, which is possibly why Hall Pass deals with the supposed angst of the ‘older’ man.
Avatar -Special Edition in 3D in Cornwall
What’s left to say about Avatar, other than the 3D special edition has nine more minutes, which is good, because one of the complaints about the record-breaking movie is that it was too short
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Never Let Me Go, in Devon and Cornwall
Never Let Me Go is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker short-listed tale of the same name. An unnerving story set in the future, it’s directed by Mark Romanek, who was writer and director of that unnerving tale of the early noughts, One Hour Photo.
Black Swan in Devon and Cornwall
Since his first feature, Pi, director Darren Aronofsky was always one to turn up the intensity, and with Black Swan he’s aided and abetted by cracking performances, most notably from Natalie Portman.
Blue Valentine in Devon and Cornwall
In Blue Valentine Michelle Williams teams up with Ryan Gosling (he lived in Cornwall that’s Cornwall Ontario, before we get too excited) for the grown-up love story. The pair of them picked up Oscar nominations.
The Adjustment Bureau in Devon and Cornwall
The world of Philip K Dick was one that was fuelled with paranoia, and The Adjustment Bureau, based on the short story Adjustment Team, certainly has the ‘they’re watching you’ vibe going on.
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Ironclad in Devon and Cornwall
With a referendum on the way as to how we vote, spare a thought for the barons in Ironclad. The film tells the story that King John was so miffed at being force to sign Magna Carta -the first, and only, bill or rights for the English -he exacted bloody revenge
Unknown in Devon and Cornwall
It’s always good to see Aidan Quinn and he’s in Liam Neeson blockbuster Unknown, originally called Unknown White Male. According to some reviews though it’s Liam who steels the show in this tale of twists and turns.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part I, in Devon and Cornwall
Catch the penultimate Potter again, or for the first time, as it pops up again around Devon and Cornwall.
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True Grit in Devon and Cornwall
Torquay’s Roger Deakins comes up trumps again for his visual skill in helping the Coen brothers tell their tales in True Grit.
Paul in Devon and Cornwall
Because we latch onto any connection to the South West, however slim, we’re heralding Paul as one of our own -co-writer and co-star Simon Pegg is from Gloucester, after all.
The Fighter in Devon and Cornwall
David O Russell was one of those directors who hustled in a new age of US filmmaking, and taking a look at his back catalogue -Spanking the Monkey, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees -it’s hardly surprising The Fighter has been treated with such acclaim.
Rango in Devon and Cornwall
Torquay’s famous son, and top DOP, Roger Deakins had a hand in the visual élan of Rango, the new animated movie from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. Roger may well have used some of the Western styling he picked up on True Grit to add to the atmosphere and effervescent performance of Johnny Depp as the voice of the main character Rango.