The new screen on top of the Emperor Hotel.
One more year the cinema becomes an ideal plan for summer nights. If traditional theaters are always a good escape from several hours of the heat, seeing premiere titles or impeccable classics outdoors, when the heatwave drops, is even better. A movie under the stars is one of those experiences that marks your relationship with the seventh art forever.
And, luckily, Madrid offers us more and more options for summer cinemas. this 2019, Some of those usual screens return, such as the one in Parque de la Bombilla and other new ones are added in the heights, such as the one in the Hotel Emperador. You will be able to catch up with the hits of the year and, finally, see that title you have been chasing for years.
The Parque de la Bombilla turns on its cinema again.
FESCINAL
On June 27 the summer cinema in Parque de la Bombilla turn your screens back on. More than two thousand seats that are calling you. The Madrid Open Air Film Festival is one of the oldest, 34 years standing, in which they have been adding space to become the largest summer cinema in Spain and also companions, such as gastronomic proposals.
As always, in addition to projections without more, They will include colloquiums, special events. Among the confirmed colloquiums: Superlopez, The Kingdom, The Mauthaussen Photographer Y I leave it whenever I want. That is, the big blockbusters of Spanish cinema in recent months.
Richard Linklater's most comical title in The Burning House.
THE MAGNETIC TERRACE
Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls from the bunch; What hides Silver Lake, Knife + Heart, A Scanner Darkly… a surprising, alternative program, different views around the world of comics, seeking the relationship with the exhibition Modern Vices, by Ceesepe. That is the idea behind the titles selected this year by the lit house in its summer cinema, projected on the roof, on its Magnetic Terrace.
From the June 22 to August 31, every Saturday at 10:30 p.m. and for only €3.
SUMMER CINEMA OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID
This open-air cinema circuit celebrates 20 years. 20 years of films projected in the squares of the towns of the Community, in public spaces. This year they will go through 45 municipalities a total of 342 projections. From Ajalvir to Zarzalejo. Passing through Cercedilla, Rascafría, El Molar…
Among the films that will go from square to square: champions (the one that will have the most projections), The Call, Handía, Lady Formentera, Many children, a monkey and a castle, REC, **Coco, **Fantastic beasts and where to find them, isle of dogs, Jurassic World, ** Lady Bird, ** Casablanca, Holidays in Rome… Come on, cinema for all kinds of audiences.
In addition, within this cycle, the El Águila Complex will close Cinema Pride with the Kenyan film, Rafiki; and will program your already classic horror special: Carrie, A Quiet Place, The Rocky Horror Picture Show are some of the titles.
All magnetized on the cinephile terrace.
EMPEROR HOTEL
You always have to celebrate the arrival of a new cinema, of a new proposal. And more if it is a screen a little closer to the sky of Madrid, in one of the most requested terraces of the city: that of the Hotel Emperador.
One Sunday a month in July, August and September this rooftop will extend your outdoor screen, sun loungers and put the attending public the best of Almodóvar's cinema. Everything about my mother (in July) , Talk to her (in August) and Return (in September) are the three titles chosen for this new initiative.
Tickets go on sale the first Monday of every month. By 25 euros includes popcorn and a glass of champagne. When the film ends, the sky bar and the Luca Atanasio cocktail menu are still open.
MADRID RACE DRIVE-IN
To go with or without a car, the Madrid Drive-In Cinema is even more active in the summer season. After more than two years in operation, consecrated as a different type of movie buff afternoon offer, this space with the highest skyline of Madrid in the background will screen some of the most applauded premieres in the coming summer months: Men In Black International, Toy Story 4…
All sessions start at 10:30 p.m. and the price of the tickets varies according to the way you decide to experience the session: with a motorcycle, by car, accompanied, with food and popcorn... There is a possibility of watch the movie in a Cadillac who will pick you up at your house.
Keanu Reeves on the sky of Madrid.
SUMMER CINEMAS: VILLA SUMMERS
Staying in Madrid for a long time has not been so hard thanks to the cultural programming of the Summers of the Villa. Music, theater, dance, parties and, of course, cinema.
Return the screen to the outdoors count Duke (schedule to be confirmed, between July 5 and September 7) ; and the CinePlaza summer in Matadero (between August 1st and September 1st) .
The cinema will also be installed in the Viewpoint of Usera with movies on Saturdays in July and August. and in the Arganzuela Viewpoint which will have its session on Fridays in July and August. (Schedules still pending).
Lastly, repeat Cinema Cibeles: Between June 29 and September 12, every day, films at CentroCentro's Crista Gallery, one of the best-received initiatives this year. It starts with the screening of the documentary Free Solo and will continue with a selection of films that pay homage to the 80s, 90s and the 20th Century Fox studio, with titles like Cleopatra, Patton, Temptation Lives Upstairs, Naked Eve... In addition, some of the films that went through the last Oscars: Green Book, The Favourite, A Star Is Born either Bohemian Rhapsody.
The projections start at 10pm, but the doors open at 8pm, because there is also an exhibition space and a Bar & Lounge area. Tickets cost €6, combined with dinner €12.