DCA still at art of city as it reveals year’s top 10 films

THE director of Dundee Contemporary Arts has revealed its top 10 films of 2021.

DCA boss Beth Bate thanked customers for supporting the arts centre since it reopened in April and said an ambition for next year is to restart plans for a third screen.

DCA wants to use the bottom two levels of the city centre building, previously occupied by Dundee University.

Ms Bate said: “Understandably given the last few months, plans have been paused a little while we concentrate on core activities but we hope to pick this up again very soon.”

The top 10 films of the year at DCA were Our Ladies at 10, a tale of six teenage schoolgirls cut loose in Edinburgh in this 90s-set comedy-drama

At nine was The Green Knight, in which a young knight, played by Dev Patel, is drawn into a dangerous quest to prove his honour.

Limbo, placed at eight, was another film set in Scotland, this time on the Uist islands as asylum seekers await news of their refugee status claim.

At number seven, Nomadland stars Frances McDormand as a van-dwelling nomad in a film that won three Oscars.

Spencer, at six, stars Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, who is seen as a frontrunner for an Oscar.

Superhero Spider-Man: No Way Home took the number five spot at DCA, while Ridley Scott’s House Of Gucci starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver came fifth.

In third place was Dune, the new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel, while The French Dispatch, with a cast boasting Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Christoph Waltz was second.

The much-delayed James Bond film was the most popular film of the year at DCA.

The pandemic saw income fall by two-thirds. But donations and grants rose during the year to March 31 from £843,000 in 2020 to £1.5m.

The charity’s net income was £253,000 compared to a loss of £117,000 in 2020.

Thanking its many supporters, Ms Bate said: “We know how much DCA matters to the people who live and work in Dundee.”

The DCA plans a third cinema.