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

night. The cinema retained its special programming until recent years, when the production of weekly and monthly newsreels was deemed redundant. Horizont’s projection screen is set in a ceramic frame recalling the time when the picture house was built. The cinema not only shows films, it also has a number of small boutiques offering a range of goods.

Cinemas for beginners,

AS WELL AS THE MORE ADVANCED - THE ART CINEMA CHAIN

By the late 1980s Budapest cinemas were increasingly glutted with commercial, Hollywood-type films, driving out quality films by serious directors, both domestic and foreign. There were only one or two cinemas that were willing to sacrifice box-office success for the sake of artistic values. The practice of projecting archive films had also become a trite routine, so the profession was pressed to come up with a fresh idea. Thus was born the ART Cinema Chain, which primarily aims to introduce and popularise quality art films among a broad public. Each member of the ART Cinema Chain has its own distinct orientation.

MŰVÉSZ (1910, 1930)

30 Teréz körút, district VII

The story goes back to the first decade of the century. On 10 January 1910, the family of Gyula Décsi, who was later to become a renowned cinematographer, opened the predecessor of the Művész, the Mozgókép-Otthon (The

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