Film, Other

In 2000, Lars von Trier broke free from the Dogme 95 movement he had helped create, and immediately won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

Three stories taking place over the course of a single night in Memphis, seen from three different points of view. Jim Jarmusch has come up with an incredibly exciting storytelling technique for this film. (He has often chosen unusual narrative forms in his later works.) Furthermore, he only reveals it in the second part of the triptych.

It’s not easy to navigate the world of country music with Old World ears. Even defining it is no straightforward task, after all, how do Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and Taylor Swift all fit together?

We have made an exception in this case and will be admitting viewers even if they haven’t brought any rice, candles, newspapers or toilet paper to the screening. In fact, we’ll even let you in without wearing one of the costumes popular among hard-core devotees of The Rocky Horror Show. The musical that inspired the film had already gained its own cult following in theatres as early as 1973. This is a parody that draws its humour from sci-fi and horror films.

In 2024, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra returned to perform at Müpa Budapest. The night was one big party. Was it what we would call folk punk? Balkan rollicking? Categories are meaningless. Kusturica is very consistent in his use of music in his films. (Sometimes the songs even become hits.)

The late ’70s saw tremendous enthusiasm brewing over the appearance in cinemas of a new – and quintessentially Hungarian – genre: the ‘Goulash Western’, with films like The Wind Blows Under Your Feet and Wrong-Doers. Despite winning critical acclaim for them, however, director György Szomjas decided to take a completely different approach for his 1981 film.

In the original language, with Hungarian subtitles.

The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

In the original language, with Hungarian subtitles.

The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

Although he caused a scandal in the early ’70s with two of his animated films (Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic), which verge on adults-only fare, Ralph Bakshi remains an unfamiliar name to most people.

Like Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese is passionately in love with New York City. There is no doubt, however, that Scorsese sees a different city. His is dirtier, edgier, and slightly more full of crime and criminals. Scorsese’s home turf is Little Italy, in Lower Manhattan. On the other hand, New York, New York clearly shows that the two are both jazz fans.

In the original language, with Hungarian subtitles.

The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

First there was The Graduate (1967) and then there was the rest of the graduate’s life. The story of a one-night stand set in 1962, George Lucas’s second film was nominated for five Oscars, including those for best film, best director and best screenplay.

“Rock n’ Roll? It will be gone by June,” wrote Variety Magazine in 1955. That didn’t age well. It happens.

színes, szinkronizált magyar-angol-ausztrál-mongol történelmi film 16+

R.: Soós Péter
SZ.: Bold Choimbol, Ray Stevenson, Eric Roberts

Are you ready for some more Beatles? True, this one is an animation film, but it still has the group playing the lead roles – themselves.

EMBER MARADJ - Az Ákos-sztori. Eddig.
Hungarian musical portrait film, 108 min, 2025
in Hungarian

(amerikai horror, 100 perc, 2025)

16 éven aluliak számára nem ajánlott!

An example of how to turn 400,000 dollars into 40 million. And a surprising one, too: Easy Rider is a counterculture film to its core.

színes, szinkronizált amerikai családi film, 98 perc 6+

R.: Ryan Crego
SZ.: Laila Lockhart Kraner, Kristen Wiig, Carla Tassara

(amerikai akcióthriller, kalandfilm, 170 perc, 2025)

16 éven aluliak számára nem ajánlott!

színes, feliratos amerikai életrajzi film, 120 perc 12+

R.: Scott Cooper
SZ.: Stephen Graham, Jeremy Allen White, Paul Walter Hauser

A road movie with a surprising amount in common with Easy Rider.

In the original language, with Hungarian subtitles.

The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

In Hungarian, without subtitles.

The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

First came the microgroove, then the LP, originally in the form of what we now call the vinyl album. Usually 12 inches in diameter and playing at a speed of 33 1/3 rotations per minute, it could accommodate up to 50 minutes of music, making it a respectable medium for even a complete rock opera.