The film lovers are invited to discover Monsters., by Marius Olteanu in most of the cinemas that still exist in Romania, since September 27. The cinema hall has 273 seats, it was digitalized in 2011, but today its doors are still closed.įor the two cinema halls and for all the other ones that have been closed down these past 30 years, there has never been a real alternative and the opportunities for the viewers to watch Romanian films on the big screen decreased considerably. In 1934 the Corso Cinema opened, on Queen Elisabeth Blvd, no.27, in the communist period. The last few years, this cinema hall had become the host of the most important film festivals in Bucharest, but the degrading state of the building impelled its closing down, right after the issuing of the law that prohibits any activity inside any location with seismic risk. This is the place where the screening of the Cinematheque started, in 1964. If in 1990 the art cinemas infrastructure included approximately 450 locations, nowadays only 90 cinema halls still function and most of them are in the commercial centers and belong to the private sector.Ĭinema Studio (previously known as Magheru or Carpați) functioned in the center of the capital in a building from 1940, raised based upon Jean Monda`s plans. It`s a paradoxical situation: more and more Romanian films receive important awards in all the prestigious international festivals every year and the cinema halls in Romania are fewer and fewer. The statistics show that we are the European country with the fewest cinema theatres per population in Europe. Ten cities gather over 70% of the viewers and in the great majority of the towns, there is no cinema house left, which makes it difficult for the people to have access to Romanian and European films. By means of this campaign the film distributor brings to the public attention the dramatic situation of the cinema infrastructure from our country, as a result of abandonment, degradation and disappearance of the cinema halls. “You could have watched Monsters. here, from September 27” is the message addressed to the viewers by means of some banners placed on the frontispieces of the Corso Cinema and Studio Cinema. In order to raise awareness regarding the situation of the fewer and fewer cinema halls where Romanian films can be watched, Transilvania Film intended to mark the locations in Bucharest which not long ago attracted hundreds of film lovers every day.
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