All My Dream Palace articles

“We can’t be so individualistic that we lose these shared experiences”: Lulu Wang on why the world needs cinemas

“You’ve got to pick what you think is important in this world and make sure it survives”: Richard Linklater on sharing the gospel of cinema

“The theatre experience transcends all the lines that separate us”: Regina King on her dream palaces

“Viva cinema!”: Luca Guadagnino immerses himself in electric shadows

“Cinema is an oneiric medium and the cinema hall transposes you there”: Chaitanya Tamhane on his dream palaces

Lynne Ramsay on the magic behind the velvet curtain

Kleber Mendonça Filho on Recife’s Cinema São Luiz, his hometown picture palace

“Cinema is my happy place”: Francis Lee celebrates cinemas as community spaces

Christian Petzold on discovering The Deer Hunter one wintry night in Berlin

Cate Shortland on escaping suburbia in Australia’s arthouse cinemas

Małgorzata Szumowska on American movies and communist Krakow

Viggo Mortensen on watching widescreen epics in 1960s Buenos Aires

My dream palaces: Edgar Wright revels in a life at the movies

John Akomfrah on why the Rio in Dalston is more than a cinema

Guy Maddin recalls his anarchic teen years at the Gimli Theatre, Manitoba

Ritesh Batra on the New Roshan Talkies, a cinema frozen in time from old Mumbai

Mark Cousins on Sarajevo’s Obala cinema and watching films in a war zone

Zhu Shengze on watching movies in Wuhan and the oasis that is Missouri’s Ragtag cinema

Peter Strickland on the Husets Biograf, Copenhagen’s cinematic cabinet of curiosities

Wanuri Kahiu pays tribute to Nairobi’s Fox drive-in cinema

Richard Stanley hymns London’s Scala cinema

Céline Sciamma on the Cinema Utopia, the cinema of her teens

Rian Johnson on the distinct charm of the New Beverly Cinema

Tug of love: a cinema pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins