Rip It Up - Cut and Paste! - Remembrance

Plymouth Arts Cinema is screening Remembrance on Friday 2 October, as part of their Cut and Paste! strand. It's a rarely seen British film from 1983, directed by Colin Gregg, and it's set right here in the city, around the pubs and clubs of 1980s Union Street. The story follows a group of young Royal Navy sailors during their last 24 hours ashore before their ship sets sail.

For anyone who follows British cinema, the cast is the big draw. It's Gary Oldman's big-screen debut, and he's joined by Timothy Spall and John Altman. It was one of the first films commissioned by Channel 4, broadcast after a short theatrical run in the summer of 1982. Its initial release took on added poignancy from the outbreak of the Falklands War a few months earlier, and it's rarely been screened since. Seeing it now, on a big screen in the city it was filmed in, feels like the right way to catch it.

Cut and Paste! is Plymouth's part of Rip It Up, a BFI FAN season running across the UK that looks at youth rebellion, culture and expression on screen. The cinema is using film as a starting point to ask what it feels like to be young in the city, pairing three key films with zine workshops and archive exploration for a playful, experimental, creative punk edge. Remembrance fits that perfectly: a film about young sailors on their final night out in Plymouth, part of a season celebrating youth rebellion.

Tickets are £9.50 standard, £7.50 for matinees, and £8.50 for over 66s. Under 25s, students, AUP staff and those on a budget get it for £5, as do baby and family screenings. Friends get a 10% discount, and it's £6.50 on Tuesdays. Tickets are free for companions, personal assistants or carers of disabled customers and CEA card holders. Online bookings add a £1.50 fee, which is waived for Members. The cinema is at Tavistock Place, Plymouth, PL4 8AT.