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SAT 3 JUN 3.15PM

A Clever Women + Director Q&A

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NOW SHOWING

The Eight Mountains

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SUN 4 – MON 19 JUN

Classic Season: Sakamoto / Vangelis / Badalamenti

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COMING SOON

Beau Is Afraid

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THU 29 JUN 18:00

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind + Q&A

Welcome to the Ultimate Picture Palace

The UPP is a community-owned cinema and Oxford’s only independent cinema. We show an eclectic mix of independent, mainstream, international, and classic films all in our cosy single-screen auditorium. Find us on the Cowley Road in East Oxford. 

What's on

Today (Friday 2nd June)

15:30

Plan 75 15
1h 53m | Japanese w/ English subtitles
Dystopian sci-fi set in a near-future Japan where the government introduces a measure to combat the burden of an ageing population – encouraging its senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanised.

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18:00

Are You There God? It's Me, Marg PG
1h 46m
Based on Judy Blume’s classic novel from 1970, a humourous and empathetic coming-of-age comedy following the tumultuous adolescence of a teenage girl growing up in New Jersey.

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20:30

The Eight Mountains 12A
2h 27m | Italian w/ English subtitles
Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's beautifully shot, decade-spanning epic following the lives of two Italian boys growing up together in a secluded alpine village.

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Tomorrow (Saturday 3rd June)

15:15

A Clever Woman 15
Director Q&A
1h 28m
Beguiling chamber drama in which two sisters return to their family home and face up to the ghosts of their past. Join us on Saturday 3 June for a special post-screening Q&A with director Jon Sanders.

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18:00

Plan 75 15
1h 53m | Japanese w/ English subtitles
Dystopian sci-fi set in a near-future Japan where the government introduces a measure to combat the burden of an ageing population – encouraging its senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanised.

Book here

20:30

Are You There God? It's Me, Marg PG
1h 46m
Based on Judy Blume’s classic novel from 1970, a humourous and empathetic coming-of-age comedy following the tumultuous adolescence of a teenage girl growing up in New Jersey.

Book here


Coming soon

The Dam directed by Ali Cherri

The Dam

Showing from Friday 9th June
Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri’s debut is an enigmatic and allegorical drama about Sudanese bricklayer who wanders into the desert to work on a mysterious construction.

Beau Is Afraid directed by Ari Aster starring Joaquin Phoenix

Beau Is Afraid

Showing from Friday 9th June
Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix stars as an anxiety-ridden middle-aged man having a meltdown in this brilliantly baffling psychological epic from the director of modern horror classics Hereditary and Midsommer.

Master Gardener directed by Paul Schrader starring Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver

Master Gardener

Showing from Saturday 10th June
Legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader continues his late-career resurgence with this potent tale of a man tormented by the ghosts of history and a country reckoning with its own troubled past.

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UPP News

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Soundtracks: Built to Last

Soundtracks: Built to Last

The recent acclaim meted out to Hauschka (AKA Volker Bertelmann) for his Academy Award winning, incongruous but effectively doomy ... Read more

The Three Colours Trilogy and other missing pieces

The Three Colours Trilogy and other missing pieces

As regular readers will know, I have been a Film and Media teacher for nearly 40 years and was, in fact, one of the very first students Read more

Scorsese: Cinema’s Last Man Standing

Scorsese: Cinema’s Last Man Standing

There are not many film directors who have shaped my life since the early 1970s and still continue to do so to this day. ... Read more

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