All My Dream Palace articles
Kleber Mendonça Filho on Recife’s Cinema São Luiz, his hometown picture palace
For our #MyDreamPalace campaign, the director of Bacurau and Aquarius reflects on a gilded 1950s temple that’s still a bastion of independence and wonder.
By Kleber Mendonça Filho
“Cinema is my happy place”: Francis Lee celebrates cinemas as community spaces
By Francis Lee
Christian Petzold on discovering The Deer Hunter one wintry night in Berlin
By Christian Petzold
Cate Shortland on escaping suburbia in Australia’s arthouse cinemas
By Cate Shortland
Małgorzata Szumowska on American movies and communist Krakow
By Malgorzata Szumowska
Viggo Mortensen on watching widescreen epics in 1960s Buenos Aires
By Viggo Mortensen
My dream palaces: Edgar Wright revels in a life at the movies
By Edgar Wright
John Akomfrah on why the Rio in Dalston is more than a cinema
By John Akomfrah
Guy Maddin recalls his anarchic teen years at the Gimli Theatre, Manitoba
By Guy Maddin
Ritesh Batra on the New Roshan Talkies, a cinema frozen in time from old Mumbai
By Ritesh Batra
Mark Cousins on Sarajevo’s Obala cinema and watching films in a war zone
By Mark Cousins
Zhu Shengze on watching movies in Wuhan and the oasis that is Missouri’s Ragtag cinema
By Zhu Shengze
Peter Strickland on the Husets Biograf, Copenhagen’s cinematic cabinet of curiosities
By Peter Strickland
Wanuri Kahiu pays tribute to Nairobi’s Fox drive-in cinema
By Wanuri Kahiu
Richard Stanley hymns London’s Scala cinema
By Richard Stanley
Céline Sciamma on the Cinema Utopia, the cinema of her teens
By Céline Sciamma
Rian Johnson on the distinct charm of the New Beverly Cinema
By Rian Johnson
Tug of love: a cinema pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins
By Nick James