Beautiful Boy
If you haven’t yet seen Beautiful Boy, there’s still a chance in March in Budapest, and trust us, it’s worth it! This is a poignant story of addiction and affection. In the film, Nic Sheff seems to have it all: good grades, an actor, artist, athlete and editor of the school newspaper. When Nic’s addiction to crystal meth threatens to destroy him, his father does whatever he can to save his son and family. Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff.
The film screens with original English audio and Hungarian subtitles at the city’s art-house cinemas. More details Captain Marvel
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the most powerful heroes in the universe when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The film screens with original English audio and Hungarian subtitles at Cinema City Allee, Aréna, Campona and WestEnd. More details
The Favourite
The new motion picture by that genius Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite has just won an Oscar for Olivia Colman. It is the early 18th century. England is at war with the French, but duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen’s companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfil her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics nor rabbit stand in her way.
The film screens with original English audio and Hungarian subtitles at Cinema City Allee and WestEnd, at the Corvin Cinema as well as at art-house cinemas.
Finding Vivian Maier
A nanny by profession but a photographer by passion, Vivian Maier was a mysterious and private person who spent most of her time documenting the life that flowed before her, capturing cities and people through photos, videos and sound recordings. Her oeuvre was discovered posthumously by accident in 2007, when boxes of over 100,000 negatives and undeveloped film rolls were bought at an auction. This incredible archive is now highly regarded, and Maier has since been compared to the likes of the great 20th-century photographers Brassaï, Diane Arbus and Walker Evans. In 2013, a documentary entitled Finding Vivian Maier was made about her life, including interviews with her former employers and their children who reveal that Maier presented herself to others in multiple ways, with varied accents, names and details about her life.
The film screens with original English audio and Hungarian subtitles on 20 March at the Bem Cinema. More details
Green Book
This year's Oscar winner, Green Book tells the story of Dr Don Shirley, a world-class African-American pianist. In need of a driver and protection when he embarks on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962, Shirley recruits Tony Lip, a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the two men soon develop an unexpected bond while confronting racism and danger in an era of segregation.
The film screens with original English audio and Hungarian subtitles at Cinema City Allee and Aréna, as well as at art-house cinemas.
The LEGO Movie: The Second Part
Everything is awesome!! Except when the citizens of Bricksburg face a dangerous new threat when LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space start to wreck everything in their path. The battle to defeat the enemy and restore harmony to the LEGO universe takes Emmet, Lucy, Batman and the rest of their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds that test their courage and creativity.
The film screens with original English audio and no subtitles at Cinema City Allee.
Mary Queen of Scots
;t=75s Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary defies the pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. But Scotland and England fall under the rule of the domineering Elizabeth I. For each young queen, the other represents fear and fascination. Rivals in power and in love, female regents in a masculine world, the two must decide how to play the game of marriage versus independence. Determined to rule more than act as a figurehead, Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth’s sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion and conspiracies within each court imperil both thrones – and change the course of history.
The film screens with original English audio and Hungarian subtitles at Cinema City Allee as well as at art-house cinemas.
