Pongrácz Erzsébet: The Cinemas of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

however, was abandoned and replaced by Toldi, which name has been in use ever since nationalisation. With programming priorities radically differing from those of other cinemas as early as the sixties, the Toldi was a de facto ART Cinema before the concept itself was introduced. In search of the new, the gourmands of filmgoing always turned to the Toldi before anything else. As a double- roomed establishment the Toldi has retained, now as a member the of the ART Cinema Chain, its distinction as the cinema first releasing “unique films” and as the picture house of the Béla Balázs Studio it screens productions by its young and talented members, not to mention the fact that the theatre is the regular venue of the Titanic Festival.

A small bookshop and the Kékharisnya (Blue Stocking) video shop function on the premises. The weekly screening of a work from the Béla Balázs Studio (free admission) is followed by a discussion with the film’s makers in the cinema’s small café.

Tabán (1910s)

87-89 Krisztina körút, district I

Very little in the way of documentary evidence is available about this cinema’s past - even the date of its foundation

The Tabán - called Diadal as yet

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