Tickets for the screenings can be had for a retro price of just HUF 75 (around EUR 0.35). Even the cinema's refreshments counter will feature classic favourites such as bread spread with lard and grape soda from Hungary's own Traubi.
On the programme will be Hungarian director Peter Gothár classic Time Stands Still from 1982, Atom Egoyan's Exotica and The Adjuster, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Patrice Leconte's The Girl on the Bridge.
The Toldi opened in 1932 under the name City Cinema on the capital's Kaiser Wilhelm Street (today Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street). Over the years, it has gone through many transformations and had many names, including the Szittya (Scythian), Úttörő (Pioneer) and City-Toldi.
In the 90s the cinema became a venue for a number of film festivals, including the Titanic and the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The legendary Béla Balázs Film Studio operated at the cinema from 1992, and the lobby and basement were used to operate the popular alternative club Razzia.
Now the Toldi is host to the annual Inforg and Verzió film festivals. Most recently, it screened the works of the great Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
Source: port.hu
