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

As a member of the ART Chain, the Tabán specialises in valuable European art films, older and more recent Hungarian works and the continuous screening of the finest items of film history. At weekends it screens fairy tales and cartoons for the youngest. Events organised by the cinema include international film weeks (for example, Egyptian and Czech weeks) as well as MOVISCJAL 96 as the International Festival of Films and Videos by the Aurally Impaired was called. The cinema undertakes to screen films not generally distributed in Hungary and brand new works by Hungarian directors.

The walls of the foyer contain a nearly complete collection of photos of existing and former cinemas.

Vörösmarty (1900s, 1936)

4 Üllői út, district VIII

The first permit-holder of what is today the Vörösmarty Cinema ran a picture house on József körút. (In the first decades of the century permits were not issued for places but to persons.) In 1936, the two owners of the small cin38