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UPP Young Critics Award Recipients & Their Reviews

UPP Young Critics Award Recipients & Their Reviews

As part of our recent Melodramarama! season, we were thrilled to launch a brand-new Young Film Critics Award, delivered in collaboration with the BFI Film Audience Network. The quality of submissions was outstanding, and we invited the award recipients to join us at...

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O Coens, Where Art Thee?

O Coens, Where Art Thee?

It would be fair to say that the Coen brothers made some of the best American films of the 90s and the early part of this Century. And it might also be fair to suggest that, since they stopped working together, it’s been slim pickings (Joel’s black and white version...

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Apocalypse Now: the End of a Golden Age

Apocalypse Now: the End of a Golden Age

Almost 50 years after its initial release, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Vietnam war movie Apocalypse Now has lost none of its power - something you can judge for yourself when the “Final Cut” of the movie is screened at the UPP on Saturday 9th August.  It’s one of the...

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Picnic at Hanging Rock: Where it All Began

Picnic at Hanging Rock: Where it All Began

In 1976, at the tender age of 13, “me and a few mates” decided to go to “the pictures” one Saturday afternoon. This was in the days when friendships were being forged over shared interests: music, books and, of course, movies. The problem was that they decided that...

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Getting Under Jonathan Glazer’s Skin

Getting Under Jonathan Glazer’s Skin

Jonathan Glazer has thus far directed four feature films, all wildly different in terms of genre, style, tone and thematic concern. According to the influential Film critic Andrew Sarris that means he would be best described as a metteur en scene - a lesser, if...

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Plan your visit

Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!