Why Oasis Fans Are Booking Bradford's Pictureville Cinema

Pictureville Cinema in Bradford has landed one of the most in-demand music films of the year, and it is showing there on the same day as the biggest screens in London. Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger, the documentary charting the Gallagher brothers' Live '25 reunion tour, arrives in UK IMAX venues on Wednesday 9 September, with the rest of the world following on 11 September.

The National Science and Media Museum, which runs the cinema, has the film listed for its IMAX screen and tickets are already on sale. Prices at the museum start at £9 for Pictureville and £12.50 for IMAX, with concessions available and no booking fees added at checkout — which is rarer than it sounds once you have used most online ticketing sites.

Oasis is not the only reason to look at the autumn schedule. Queen's restored 1986 Budapest concert reaches cinemas and IMAX on Wednesday 7 October, and Widescreen Weekend — the museum's long-running festival of big-format film — returns in September for its 30th year. For a city that spent 2025 as UK City of Culture, it is a decent way to keep the momentum going.

The Oasis film opens the same day as everywhere else

Don't Look Back in Anger is directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, with Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame as executive producer. It mixes rehearsal footage, backstage access and full-throttle live performance, and it contains something fans have waited a very long time for: the first joint interview Noel and Liam Gallagher have given in more than two decades.

What matters locally is the timing. Big music documentaries often reach independent and museum cinemas weeks after the chains have had their run. This one does not. Bradford gets it on day one, in a format built for stadium-scale sound, which is roughly the point of a film about 2025's largest tour. A streaming release on Disney+ is expected later in the year.

Queen's last stadium blowout, back in 4K

Queen Budapest marks 40 years since the band played the Népstadion on 27 July 1986, on the Magic Tour. Trafalgar Releasing is putting it into cinemas and IMAX worldwide from 7 October, after a world premiere in Budapest in mid-September and a UK premiere in London on 30 September. Physical editions on 4K, vinyl and CD follow on 30 October.

Restored from the original 35mm negatives

The restoration was done at Park Road Post Production in New Zealand, Sir Peter Jackson's facility, working from the original 35mm camera negatives rather than an old video master. The soundtrack has been remixed from the multitrack tapes. That combination is why it is worth seeing on a proper screen instead of waiting for the disc — grain, colour and depth that a 1980s broadcast copy simply never had.

Why the Budapest show mattered

This was the first time a Western stadium rock band played behind the Iron Curtain, three years before the Berlin Wall came down. Roughly 80,000 people were there. It also sits near the very end of Queen's touring life with Freddie Mercury, which gives the footage a weight that no amount of remastering could manufacture. Younger fans who only know the band through Bohemian Rhapsody will find it a different experience entirely.

What's on at Pictureville Cinema this autumn

Between the two music events sits Widescreen Weekend, which spreads across the museum's three screens — Pictureville, Cubby Broccoli and the IMAX — and shows films in 70mm, 35mm and Cinerama. Very few venues on earth can still project three-strip Cinerama properly. Bradford is one of them, and this is the festival's 30th edition.

• Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger — from Wednesday 9 September, IMAX
• Widescreen Weekend — September, across all three screens
• Queen Budapest — from Wednesday 7 October
• New IMAX releases run alongside, including The Odyssey

What it costs, and what to book first

If your budget only stretches to one, book the Oasis screening early. Event-cinema releases usually run for a handful of days, not weeks, and the opening night on a large-format screen will go first. Queen Budapest has a longer runway and a home release three weeks later, so it is the safer one to leave. Widescreen Weekend tends to sell by pass rather than by single ticket.

Why a small city-centre screen still pulls this off

The museum reopened in early 2025 after a lengthy refurbishment, and its cinemas have been rebuilding an audience since. Landing a day-one IMAX release is a sign that distributors now count Bradford as a proper venue rather than an afterthought — useful leverage for the next tour film, and for a city trying to prove that City of Culture was not a one-year event.

Check the museum's own calendar before booking anywhere else, because showtimes for both films are being added in stages and the IMAX slots move around. If you want the Oasis film in the format it was mixed for, take the earliest date you can get.