Kino Luna

Image from Kino Luna website

@. Marszalkowska 28
architect.
finished. 1962

The building, which is part of MDM, came into being during the 50's and Kino Luna, was inaugurated in 1962. It shows mostly art movies. On Mondays it has super cheap 5pln tickets while on Thursdays it shows movies with English subtitles. What I most appreciate about it is its enormous oval foyer. It's two stories tall with grand sweeping staircases on both ends. It's orange, warm and velvety, with awesome square leather chairs where you can munch on pop-corn and m&m's from the concession stand. It's so grand and comfortable and would take so little to make it great. I've seen some terrible modern renderings of plans to add a cafe, gallery and cloak room that totally ruin this homey-retro aesthetic. It's such a unique place that I hate to think of it becoming shiny and new and foreign feeling (like Kino Kultura, nice but bleh). Reviewers even mention that the cashier reminds them of their aunt and the ticket taker their uncle, can you ask for a more Warsaw climate? check them out