Spain/France/Belgium, 2012, 104mins. Dir. Pablo Berger

‘Once upon a time there was a little girl who had never known her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend.’

Set in southern Spain during the 1920′s and based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Blancanieves is a full-bodied tribute to silent films.

'Magical and utterly distinctive.’ SILENT LONDON

Meal deal available. Showings: 3.30pm, 6pm & 8.15pm Tickets: £5.50...

UK, 2013, 100 mins. Dir. Christopher Menaul

A true tale of love, liberty and scandal amongst the Edwardian artists’ colony in Cornwall. Set before the First World War, two great friends fall in love with the same hauntingly beautiful woman pushing their loyalty for one another to breaking point. Starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens.

Showings: 3.30pm, 6pm & 8.15pm Tickets: £5.50 (£4.50) Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/summer-in-february-15/

France, 2012, 111mins. Dir. Regis Roinsard

A stylish comedy romance set in 1950′s France. When a young woman applies for a secretary’s job with charismatic ex-sportsman, Louis, her special gift for speed typing is revealed. Reawakening Louis’ competitive spirit, he helps Rose to seize a chance for glory in the country’s hard-fought typing contests.

‘Thoughtful, amusing and touching.’ THE GUARDIAN

Showings: 3.30pm, 6pm & 8.15pm Tickets: £5.50 (£4.50) Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/populaire-12a/

Kit Poulson’s practice meanders back and forth from painting, paying visits to installation, video and performance making, via writing fiction, to explore parallels and connections between materiality, imagery and thought.

This exhibition will include a series of new paintings using oil and egg tempera, accompanied by a parallel set of short fictions. The exhibition stems from the artist’s fascination with the aftermath of the vision. What is left when the revelation recedes and the consciousness remains firmly rooted in the mundane. How things are accommodated into the world and...

Pick up a guide during Unexpected festival and visit Lesser Known Architecture, an ongoing nationwide research project that celebrates overlooked or forgotten architectural forms. The project documents buildings, structures and concepts that defined their time, inspiring future architectural visions and technologies, and yet remain unknown to the general public. Started by photographer Theo Simpson, Lesser Known Architecture remembers the existence of such works as well as the architects and engineers who developed them.

New photographs commissioned for this presentation are...

i am algorithm continues Charlie Tweed’s exploration of the human desire to control and systematise the natural world, and how new technologies have instilled a complex form of social control over populations in both the physical and virtual sphere.

Tweed works largely with appropriated material which is re-filmed and re-contextualised, adding narratives that obscure the film’s original source, location and authorship. It is uncertain whether the places or events depicted occur in the past, present or future, or in some kind of parallel existence. He exposes the physicality and...

This summer Miracle Theatre demonstrates why Waiting for Godot, once famously described as a play in which ‘nothing happens, twice’, is one of the most profound, moving and funny plays ever written. Both deadly serious and seriously funny, Beckett’s timeless masterpiece explores what makes us tick with clarity, dramatic force and genuine humour.

Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that centers on a pair of vagrant men, Vladimir and Estragon, and their efforts to divert themselves while waiting, on a vague pretense, for the arrival of a man named Godot: whom...

For the first time since becoming Poet Laureate in 2009, Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL, will perform in Exeter, reading alongside fellow poet Ann Gray.

Tickets: £12 (£10) Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/an-evening-with-carol-ann-duffy-a...

The Orb 25th Anniversary Tour + Special Guests

The Orb is celebrating its unique position as one of the few names to emerge from the 1988 acid house revolution, who are still creating vital new music, with a series of special 25th anniversary UK shows.

Over the last 25 years, The Orb has charted one of the most idiosyncratic paths in music, notching up hit singles and albums, sellout shows all over the world and an impressive string of collaborations, most recently reggae legend Lee Perry on More Orbservations From The Starhouse.

The silver jubilee shows are both...

Support from Emma Lauran & Naomi

Join Morning Rush for their CD launch party gig.

Morning Rush are a young Exeter based folk/pop band who are making quite a name for themselves with their melodic songs, strong vocal harmonies and piano-rich sound.

Having gained recognition from the legendary Ray Davies, and Steve Knightley (Show of Hands), for their song-writing skills – they are now following in the footsteps of James Morrison and Ben Howard in their aim to put the West Country firmly on the musical map of Great Britain.

Tickets: £4 Book here: http://...