Ultimate Picture Palace

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My local cinema, the magnificent Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford, is showing 1926 Japanese psychological horror A Page of Madness with a live score by Hugo Max, and that's on Wednesday the 7th of October.

This also seems like an opportune moment to trail the fact that the subject of the next regular episode of this show will be Lev Kuleshov's startling 1926 Gothic Western, By the Law.

I don't have a release date for that yet, not least because I haven't recorded it.

This is The Rewind Room.

I'm Georgia Humphries, film writer, programmer and volunteer for The Ultimate Picture Palace.

I'm Kit Finney, the lead projectionist at The Ultimate Picture Palace.

And this broadcast is coming to you from the Rewind Room of The Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford.

Join us as each episode we unspool a film from our current programme, resurrect the ghosts of media past and splice in some of our own frames of reference.

Today, we've caught the signal and Picture Palace morphs into Flesh Palace as we bask in the flesh and fluids, the corn syrup carnal of Jane Schoenbrun's teenage sex and death at Camp Miasma.

Hoping to sign Billy Presley, star and final girl of the first Camp Miasma, Chris travels to the abandoned campsite from the first film, where Billy now resides as an eccentric recluse.

What starts as a project pitch soon blossoms into an erotic reckoning for Chris, as the boundaries between director and star, screen and reality, fear and desire diffuse, and Chris confronts what it means to surrender yourself to the grotesque sublime of horror's most troubling images.