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 Every European City, which is not
plagued with constant rain, has them: The chairs will be put out, the Bar
set up. There are the small and cute ones that have put together a special
program which will be shown in backyards, on decks and near little lakes.
If it is required they will even glue a ripped piece of celluloid back
together. There are also the big mainstream ones for the spoilt audience,
that wants to feel hip, cool and exclusive, when they are siting on their
Jägermeister chairs whilst sipping on a glass of champagne. Off we go. Take
a jumper, because even in the middle of August the nights can be cold. Put
the umbrella underneath the chair. Sit down, and for once you are even
allowed to light a cigarette and then it is time for the movie.
But in Budapest things are even better. Here you can experience open air
cinema, no matter what the weather. Thanks to the Szimplakert winter garden
cinema. When it storms and hails the audience can sit behind a glass wall.
It will feel reminded of the summer when the movie is projected onto the
opposing house wall. In your hand: a punch in the winter and a fröcs in the
summer.
But is that really enough? Until recent years, Budapest had a whole lot of
open air cinemas: “Ten years ago we went to the Budai, the Városmajori, the
Vörösmarty open air cinema on Margitsziget. To the cinema in the park on
Csepelsziget near the Petőfi Hall. But all that was left by 1994 was
the Vörösmarty.” commented the Magyar Filmintézet (Hungarian Insitute of
Film) in 1999. By now, even Vörösmarty has disappreared. The Csajkovszkij
had already been used as a „Polish Market” in the summer of 1992. Budapest
plázs, for which, in 2004 a whole bank of the Danube was
closed off for trafic, also used to show open air movies. Sadly, this beach
does not exist anymore in 2005.
The people from Budapest seem to have lost their interest in the summer –
they prefere to sit in a multiplex cinema sipping their coke and munching
on popcorn. After all it is air conditioned.
These are the places where you can still enjoy movies in a park:
Ever Wednesday between 9pm and 11pm, until the 3.August 2005, the garden
cinema at Millenárispark
will screen documentaries short and feature films made by students of the School
of Theatre and Film. Free entry.
Filmmuzéum:
Kertmozi. During the closure of the Rudas bath the well known
Cinetrip-Party, that usually takes place in the bath, will take place in
the garden of the museum of film. Films will also be shown.
(Further information: www.mokkacuka.hu)
Not very much. So it is only really the Szimplakertmozi – if the weather is
good they even open the windows.
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