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SAT 11TH JAN 7PM

Double Dylan! Don't Look Back / Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

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NOW SHOWING

Queer

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Kino Kids Cinema Club

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COMING SOON

Nosferatu

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SAT 25TH JAN 7.30PM

Byrne's Night! True Stories & Stop Making Sense

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The Ultimate Picture Palace is Oxford’s only independent cinema. Founded in 1911 and community-owned since 2022, we show a mix of independent, international, and classic films all in our cosy single-screen auditorium. Find us on the Cowley Road in East Oxford. 

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Today (Saturday 11th January)
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13:45

Grand Theft Hamlet 15
1h 31m
During the COVID lockdown, two unemployed actors, frustrated by theatre closures, staged Hamlet in the online world of Grand Theft Auto. This unique documentary captures their effort with unexpectedly moving results.

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16:00

Queer 18
2h 17m
Daniel Craig stars as an American expatriate living a quiet life in 1960s Mexico, until a young student’s arrival turns his world upside down. Luca Guadagnino directs this sensual adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ cult novel.

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19:00

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back 15
1h 36m
Filmed during Bob Dylan’s 1963 tour of the UK, D.A. Pennebaker’s groundbreaking “rockumentary” offers an intimate and unfiltered look at the iconic folk artist at the height of his creative powers.

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19:00

Bob Dylan Double Feature 18
3h 33m (+ intermission)
With A Complete Unknown in theatres this month, we’re celebrating with a double dose of Dylan! Join us for groundbreaking rockumentary Don’t Look Back followed by Sam Peckinpah’s Western, starring Dylan, Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid.

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21:00

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 18
1h 57m
Set against a haunting soundtrack by co-star Bob Dylan, Sam Peckinpah’s final western is a poignant meditation on integrity and freedom, casting the killing of Billy the Kid as one of the defining death knells of the mythic Old West.

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Tomorrow (Sunday 12th January)
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12:30

Whale Rider PG
1h 41m
Kino Kids Cinema Club
Tradition creates conflict within a family when a young Māori girl challenges convention to claim what she believes is her rightful place as leader of her tribe. One-off Kino Kids Cinema Club screening (£6 adults / £4 children).

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14:45

Howards End PG
2h 22m
Merchant Ivory Classics
In Edwardian England, the lives of three families from different social classes and outlooks become intricately intertwined. Richly layered adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic novel starring an Oscar-winning Emma Thompson performance.

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17:45

How to Make Millions Before Gran 12A
2h 6m | Thai w/ English subtitles
Driven by the promise of a multimillion-dollar inheritance, a young college dropout becomes the caretaker for his terminally ill grandmother. A moving intergenerational drama that became a box office sensation in Southeast Asia.

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20:30

The Order 15
1h 56m
A wave of bombings and bank robberies pulls a seasoned FBI agent (Jude Law) into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a domestic terrorist group in this gripping 1980s-set crime thriller inspired by true events.

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Nicholas Cage classic film screening Oxford cinema

Nosferatu

Showing from Friday 17th January
Evil plagues a small town in 1830s Germany as the sinister Count Orlok becomes dangerously infatuated with a young local woman. Director Robert Eggers (The Witch) breathes new life into one of cinema’s most iconic monsters.

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Mother and Son directed by Léonor Serraille

Nickel Boys

Showing from Friday 17th January
In 1960s America, two young Black men form a friendship while in a corrupt reform school. Director RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as an immersive exploration of America’s buried history.

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Neil Harbisson Cyborg Documentary Screening Oxford University

We Live In Time

Showing from Friday 24th January
Almut and Tobias meet in an unexpected encounter that forever alters their lives. But a challenging truth threatens to upend everything they’ve built. Uniquely structured rom-com starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.

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