Cinema Ideal for two years and offers 21 free sessions – Daily News – Lisbon

Pedro Borges, the owner, says it’s a privilege “to handle life this way.” The cinema is celebrating until the end of the month

Day August 28, 2014. The date on which the center of Lisbon has returned to cinema, Cinema Ideal in Chiado. A room with balcony, a café and a lounge with a library. Two years after celebrating the anniversary from now until the end of the month. A party program that includes free movie and a sample of what best Midas Filmes programmed in this room that once protruded porn movies.

In all will be 21 sessions with free entry and the highlight is the same Sunday, the day birthday, where at 18.45 will be projected to surprise movie premiere. On Sunday that JP Simões plays, also with free entry in the Hall Ideal and where there are drinks for a toast to moviegoers who want to join. Are two years in which Pedro Borges, the strong man of Midas, scheduled auteur cinema from around the world, with special relevance to what was done in Portugal. And it is he himself who tells us to be happy with the balance, “we did something that no one believed it was possible to happen: reopen a rotten cinema in the center of Lisbon We did it without any public support and an architectural project (twice. award) and equipment, the best available quality (and a colossal investment and purely unconscious). Worse than that, in spite of the film support policy in Portugal is captured by interests and dark business, we continue to work. But much better than so we showed in two years 35 – yes, thirty-five – Portuguese films and some of the best cinema in the world “.

in week anniversary, the film” Cuban “Laurent Cantet, Back Ithaca , has discounted display. For short, the ideal already announced breath works as The Smell of We , Larry Clark, If the mountains depart , Jia Zhang-Ke or the beautiful Vergine Giurata , Laura Bispuri

Pedro Borges looks to the future with desire to repeat what was done:. “we will continue with the rope in his throat, trying to find the support – both public and private – that can offset the investment we have made in the short time that remains, we will try to reverse the public policy of support to the cinema and continue to do the one thing that we do: show the best movies, the best films in the world is.. a huge privilege to handle life in it. “

the fact is that it is an open room the more distributors in addition to the Midas. Also open to festivals Lisbon cinema and singular events (as the only display of The Heaven’s Gate , Michael Cimino, at the time of his disappearance). For the week, it’s time for Ivo M. Ferreira and its beautiful War Letters try to repeat the beautiful effect which was the replacement of Barry Lyndon , the ultimate success of this neighborhood cinema.