Berlin is Picture City. The Berlinale
(tel
25 92 00,
www.berlinale.de
)
is one of the world’s major film festivals, on a par with
Cannes and Venice. It takes place in February in the new festival centre on Potsdamer
Platz.
This is Berlin’s biggest cinema complex. CinemaxX (tel.
0
1805-24 63 62
99) has 19 theatres and accomodates 3,500 filmgoers. A few cinemas are
reserved for the classics and films in their original versions. The
nearby Imax-theatre (tel.
0
1805-46 29 22 55) shows spectacular nature films in
a round dome
and
in the Cine Star at the Sony Center you can watch original versions.
Cinemas on Ku’damm and Tauentzienstrasse are often used for
premières. The largest theatre is Zoo Palast, Hardenbergstrasse
29a, Charlottenburg, tel.
25 41
47 77.
Berlin’s attractiveness as a city for film buffs is mainly based on
the countless small cinemas that present their own idiosyncratic
programmes.
Arsenal – Kino der Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek
Potdammerstrasse 2, Tiergarten
Tel. 26 95 51 00
Old and new films in all genres; avant-garde and documentaries,
retrospectives and additional events.
Babylon A & B
Dresdner Strasse 126, Kreuzberg
Tel. 61 46 0 96 93
Original film versions.
Filmkunsthaus
Babylon
Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 30
Tel. 2 42 50 76
Art films, retrospectives. The film performance takes place in the foyer
until the restoration of Hans Poelzig’s film theatre (1929).
Eiszeit Kino
Zeughofstrasse 20, Kreuzberg
Tel. 6 11 60 16
Curosities, original versions, independent films.
Central Kino
Rosenthaler
Straße 39, Mitte,
✆
28 59 99 73
Independent German productions and movies of the Cine Iberoamericano in
original version.
Cinema Paris
Kurfürstendamm 211, Charlottenburg,
✆
881 31 19
European movies, original French movies.
Dokument Kino
Rungestraße
20, Mitte, ✆
27 59 58 95
Documentaries only. Thu-Mo 6pm, 8pm and 10pm
Moviemento 1-3
Kottbusser Damm 22, Kreuzberg
Tel. 6 92 47 85
Art film premières, retrospectives, children’s films.
Odeon
Hauptstrasse 116, Schöneberg
Tel. 78 70 40 19
Exclusively films in original English version.
