Grab the popcorn! The August Film Guide is here. Many theatres across town are screening films in English this month, including the popular Budapest Rooftop Cinema, which shows classic movies for one night and one night only.
1/15
Blues Brothers
133 minutes
Musical-comedy
English with Hungarian subtitles
Showing at the Bem Cinema, 9 August
Celebrating its 40th birthday, this 1980 American musical-comedy will be screening at the Bem Cinema on 9 August. Directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Screened in English with Hungarian subtitles. For tickets, head to cooltix.hu.
2/15
About Time
123 minutes
Romantic comedy-drama
English with Hungarian subtitles
9 August
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
Screening at the Budapest Rooftop Cinema, the movie starts at 8.30-8.45pm. In the event of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. Tickets are 1,650 forints. More information on the Facebook event.
3/15
Ali G Indahouse
88 minutes
Comedy
English with Hungarian subtitles
10 August
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the UK chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, Ali is embraced by the nation as a voice of the youth, making the PM and his government more popular than ever.
Screening at the Budapest Rooftop Cinema, the movie starts at 8.30-8.45pm. In the event of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. Tickets are 1,650 forints. More information on the Facebook event.
4/15
For Some Inexplicable Reason
(VAN valami furcsa és megmagyarázhatatlan)
90 minutes
Hungarian with English subtitles
Comedy
11 August
Áron is your average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree and a recent break-up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job-seeker and, while agonising over his lost love, he is always interrupted by something – it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.
Screening at the Budapest Rooftop Cinema, the movie starts at 8.30-8.45pm. In the event of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. Tickets are 1,650 forints. More information on the Facebook event.
5/15
Four Rooms
98 minutes
Comedy
English with Hungarian subtitles
16 August
You’ll be laughing non-stop at these four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve, all under the faltering supervision of one lone bellhop.
Screening at the Budapest Rooftop Cinema, the movie starts at 8.30-8.45pm. In the event of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. Tickets are 1,650 forints. More information on the Facebook event.
6/15
Moonlight
111 minutes
Drama
English with Hungarian subtitles
23 August
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood.
Screening at the Budapest Rooftop Cinema, the movie starts at 8.30-8.45pm. In the event of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. Tickets are 1,650 forints. More information on the Facebook event.
7/15
The Truman Show
103 minutes
Drama
English with Hungarian subtitles
31 August
Jim Carrey gives a remarkable performance as a man learning that his entire life in a storybook coastal village has been the subject of a live, 24-hour-a-day womb-to-tomb television drama.
Screening at the Budapest Rooftop Cinema, the movie starts at 8.30-8.45pm. In the event of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. Tickets are 1,650 forints. More information on the Facebook event.
8/15
The High Note
113 minutes
Drama, Music, Romance
English
Showing at CINEMApink MOM Park
A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
9/15
The King of Staten Island
136 minutes
Comedy-drama
English
Showing at CINEMApink MOM Park
Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist until events force him to grapple with his grief and take his first steps forward in life.
11/15
The Burnt Orange Heresy
99 minutes
Action, Drama, Thriller
English with Hungarian subtitles
Showing at Allee, Aréna, Mammut, Westend, Puskin, Toldi, Művész
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
12/15
Pesti balhé
107 minutes
Comedy
Hungarian with English subtitles
Showing at Allee, Aréna
After their friend Vince dies in an accident, Marcell – a rich but burnt-out architect – and the rest of his loser childhood buddies decide to team up for the last time to fulfill their friend's last wish and smuggle his crappy painting into the most prestigious art auction of Budapest. This happens to be organised by Vince's father, a snob art dealer who rejected his son for becoming a poor artist instead of following his footsteps into the world of money and prestige.
13/15
The Gentlemen
113 minutes
Action, Crime
English with Hungarian subtitles
Showing at Allee
A very British drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires.
14/15
The Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
105 minutes
Comedy
English with Hungarian subtitles
Showing at Corvin
Jay and Silent Bob return to Hollywood to stop a reboot of the Bluntman and Chronic movie from getting made.
15/15
Emma
124 minutes
English with Hungarian subtitles
Drama
Showing at Puskin, Tabán
Jane Austen’s adored, timeless comedy about finding your partner and how you deserve happiness is now hiding in a new robe in this sparklingly enjoyable adaptation.
Pretty, smart and rich Emma Woodhouse is a tireless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this sparkling satire of the hustle and bustle of social classes and the agony of adulthood, Emma finds love manoeuvring between mismatched couples and romantic stumbles.
