Cinéma du Panthéon, Art house cinema in Latin Quarter, Paris, France.
Cinéma du Panthéon is a movie theater in the Latin Quarter that screens international films in their original languages with subtitles. The auditorium holds around two hundred seats and operates with a regularly changing program throughout the week.
Inaugurated in February 1907 after the renovation of a former Sorbonne students' gymnasium, the cinema has run without interruption since, the only old Paris hall able to claim this. Pierre Braunberger directed it from 1929 to 1990 and made it the first Paris cinema to screen films in their original version, opening with Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade in May 1930. Why Not Productions took over in April 2001.
The cinema takes its name from the nearby Panthéon. Its upstairs café, Le Salon, was decorated in 2006 with flea-market furniture and objects by actress Catherine Deneuve and Christian Sapet; it holds a library devoted to film and a terrace, and hosts press interviews, film promotion and private Why Not Productions evenings.
The venue can be visited during daytime or evening, depending on when a desired screening takes place. It helps to check the schedule in advance to find out which films are showing and when the next showtimes are.
In 2006 a 150 m² lounge was fitted out in the converted attic; its bar-salon was decorated with flea-market furniture and objects by Catherine Deneuve and Christian Sapet. It has a terrace and a library devoted to cinema, and hosts press interviews, film promotion and private evenings for Why Not Productions.
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