TORCH presents: Battleship Potemkin / DriftersPG

Battleship Potemkin / Drifters: A Celebration of the Historic 1929 Screening by the Film Society

The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities presents a special screening that re-creates one of the most significant events in the history of British film—the premiere screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and John Grierson’s Drifters by the Film Society on November 10, 1929. The event will be introduced by Professor Emma Widdis (University of Cambridge) and Professor Jo Fox (School of Advanced Study, University of London), both experts in the works of Eisenstein and Grierson.

 

Doors open at 5pm with the programme running between 5.30-8.30pm (including an intermission between the two films). All tickets cost £3.

Sorry - you missed it!

We showed TORCH presents: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters between February 27, 2024 and February 27, 2024.

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Tomorrow (Friday 28th June)

18:00

The Dead Don't Hurt 15
2h 9m
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Viggo Mortensen star in this feminist neo-Western following two migrants who fall in love and face the challenges of living on the western frontier of the US during the outbreak of civil war.

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20:45

Sorcery 15
1h 41m | Spanish w/ English subtitles
Inspired by real events and deeply rooted in folkore, this darkly atmospheric Chilean drama follows a young Indigenous girl's quest for revenge against the foreman who attacked her father and their farm.

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Saturday 29th June

15:15

The Dead Don't Hurt 15
2h 9m
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Viggo Mortensen star in this feminist neo-Western following two migrants who fall in love and face the challenges of living on the western frontier of the US during the outbreak of civil war.

Book here

18:00

Sorcery 15
1h 41m | Spanish w/ English subtitles
Inspired by real events and deeply rooted in folkore, this darkly atmospheric Chilean drama follows a young Indigenous girl's quest for revenge against the foreman who attacked her father and their farm.

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20:30

The Truman Show PG
1h 43m
Jim Carrey plays an insurance salesman unknowingly living in a reality TV show. Peter Weir’s award-winning drama humorously and thoughtfully examines technological intrusion and media manipulation before reality TV's rise.

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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!