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Good old Bill will be spinning in his grave! Part of the reason was "against planning rules" and now they want to protect it!!

Can remember the Moulin Rouge/Flea Pit opposite with the can can legs! Blockbuster Video on the corner.

Happy pub crawls Butchers, Standard, Britt then White Horse or up into Old Headington for the Bell, Black Boy and White Hart.
 
Essexyellows said:
Good old Bill will be spinning in his grave! Part of the reason was "against planning rules" and now they want to protect it!!

Can remember the Moulin Rouge/Flea Pit opposite with the can can legs! Blockbuster Video on the corner.

Happy pub crawls Butchers, Standard, Britt then White Horse or up into Old Headington for the Bell, Black Boy and White Hart.
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diagonally opposite
 
Remember watching a few films in there when a kid, before the legs were added.
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RyanioBirdio said:
I rented a copy of Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing for the Mega Drive from there. Also bought a Beavis and Butthead VHS that has an awful lot to answer for.

I just wanted to join in.
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Then they moved over the road to the new build where Williams furniture & the bridal shop was, then taken over by Ritz, who sponsored the matchday programme v Southampton IIRC...................... them was the days.
 
We used to sneak in the backdoor of that cinema as kids, seem to remember they showed a lot of the confessions and Emanuel films there.
 
It was renowned for showing some fairly radical films back in the day. I remember seeing a Japanese horror film (Onibaba), also The Trial and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of Charenton Asylum under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. (Surely the longest film title ever)? One of the few films I've ever walked out of after around half hour. Totally weird.
 
Maldonyellow said:
It was renowned for showing some fairly radical films back in the day. I remember seeing a Japanese horror film (Onibaba), also The Trial and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of Charenton Asylum under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. (Surely the longest film title ever)? One of the few films I've ever walked out of after around half hour. Totally weird.
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Are you sure this wasn't a dream?
 
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Sarge said:
....there were a pair of large 'jazz hands' over the front of the penultimate picture palace cinema, off cowley road ,for a few years
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It's now called the Ultimate Picture Palace and has been refurbished though still has an 'indie' feel. I went last night for the first time in ages and really enjoyed the film Belfast.
 
Maldonyellow said:
Definitely no dream. Check it out.
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Penultimate picture palace at one point , for a period of time, screened a number of 'world cinema' films - as late night shows .... if memory serves, which it might not! ..... weren't Penultimate Picture Palace on of the first , if not the first, to screen A Clockwork Orange, ( as part of a Kubrick film 'festival'.... possibly to some kind of film club/ association mini season ? ) around the time Kubrick died , thus 'lifting' Kubrick's own UK embargo on the cult film ( he refused British board of censors insistance to make anymore cuts to his film in the 70s, thus A Clockwork Orange was 'banned' - by Kubrick himself- for many years in the UK)
 
Essexyellows said:
Then they moved over the road to the new build where Williams furniture & the bridal shop was, then taken over by Ritz, who sponsored the matchday programme v Southampton IIRC...................... them was the days.
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It was Walkers Furniture. Williams was the fishing tackle/cycle shop which was over the traffic lights towards Bury Knowle Park.
 
Maurice Earp said:
It was Walkers Furniture. Williams was the fishing tackle/cycle shop which was over the traffic lights towards Bury Knowle Park.
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they sold sweets in Williams too ..... as an anklebiter going to home games at the Manor with my dad, I remember he'd often call in there to buy a packet of fruit gums (or occasionally fruit pastilles) on the way to football
 
Maldonyellow said:
It was renowned for showing some fairly radical films back in the day. I remember seeing a Japanese horror film (Onibaba), also The Trial and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of Charenton Asylum under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. (Surely the longest film title ever)? One of the few films I've ever walked out of after around half hour. Totally weird.
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Wasn't it 'The Persecution and Assassination......' rather than the 'trial'? I went to see it in Bournemouth having taking some herbal 'medicine', for relaxation purposes of course- I went to sleep in the first half-hour and woke up sometime during the next showing.

However, there is a distinct chance none of this happened and it was an entirely different film, possibly the restored 5 hour plus version of Abel Gance's 1927 silent film 'Napoleon' with music by Carmine Coppola. I was quite obviously hoping to impress someone with my esoteric taste in arthouse films. My other memory of that is for the first half hour every time Napoleon said something a bloke at the front would start talking in a Kennneth Williams type voice. Hilarious for about 10 minutes but it went on for ages, much like the film.

I need to lie down now.
 
I stand corrected. You are quite right. Mind it has been Fifty odd years since then. The memory is not what it was. Still a weird film though.
 
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