Dear friends and film technology fans, On behalf of 70 mm Cinema Panorama in Varnsdorf, Czech Republic, on the border with Germany, we would like to invite you to a Panorama Weekend which will be held from 26th until 28th May, 2023 within the 20th Film Festival Nisa. The program are 70mm projection movies, 35mm Sensurround movies, lectures, meetings with friends, fun and good food and drinks. Cinema Panorama in Varnsdorf offers a unique technical equipment with curved screen. Projected image size is up to 135 square meters. Cinema is projected as 70mm with a triangular floor plan and the projection screen is considerably moved to viewers and has practically no stage.
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Projection screen. | Cinema with a capacity of 513 seats. |
Threading our 70mm projector Meopta UM70/35. |
Designed capacity is of 550 seats. Projection booth has installed all classic projection technology i.e. 16mm, 35mm (2x), 70mm (2x) and Christie digital projector. On a perfect tuning our technology and program we cooperate with foreign friends – Orpheum Lichtspiele Schönberg, Kinomuseum Berlin and Mikula Servis Switzerland. Hardware is not only in perfect technical condition, but all improving go beyond the original technology. We are so prepared for film copies, which, due to the effects of the ravages of time are not perfect. Projectors UM 70/35 we have adapted for screening shrink copies, in the sound system we added noise suppression for audio records without Dolby. Furthermore, we have installed Dolby A or Dolby SR or other audio systems for 70 mm films having e.g. the low bass frequencies in a particular track or have stereo sound effects. All recordings are played as they were technically worked on the film copy, but through modern sound processor and speakers.
We offer to visitors to the festival eating in our two restaurants located in the complex of CENTRUM PANORAMA with rich selection of pizzas, pastas, meat and vegetarian dishes. The menu in Czech language can be found here. We highly recommend ordering your food in advance for when the movie ends. Link to the registration form can be found at the end of the invitation.
Our philosophy is to offer movies that are very rare on similar 70 mm shows. Of course, we can never be quite sure, if anyone has ever organize some screenings alone outside regular festivals, but about many films we failed to get the information that they would have been in recent years played somewhere.
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20. Neisse FilmfestivalThe Panorama Weekend takes place in the context of 20th Neisse Filmfestival, which is organized in 10 locations in the German-Polish-Czech border triangle from 23th to 28th May. Program of Neisse Film Festival features plenty of other dozens of movies, documentaries and short films, as well as concerts, lectures and parties. For the entire festival program see www.neissefilmfestival.de. |
Friday 26.5.
17.00 High Blue Wall
20.00 The Hunt for Red October
Saturday 27.5.
11.00 55 Days at Peking
14.00 Documentary about our cinema + 70mm Trailers (free)
15.30 Gandhi
20.00 Licorice Pizza
Sunday 28.5.
11.00 Days of Heaven
14.00 A Chorus Line
17.00 Gorillas in the Mist
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High Blue Wall70mm 1974 / Director: Vladimír Čech / 91 min. CZ |
The Hunt for Red October70mm 1990 / Director: John McTiernan / 135 min. EN / CZ tit. |
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55 Days at Peking70mm 1963 / Director: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green / 154 min. EN / CZ tit. |
Documentary about our cinemaDCP + 70mm 2022 / 45 + 25 min. CZ / EN tit. |
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Gandhi70mm 1982 / Director: Richard Attenborough / 191 min. EN / CZ tit. |
Licorice Pizza70mm 2021 / Director: Paul Thomas Anderson / 133 min. EN / CZ tit. |
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Days of Heaven70mm 1978 / Director: Terrence Malick / 94 min. EN / CZ tit. |
A Chorus Line70mm 1985 / Director: Richard Attenborough / 113 min. EN / CZ tit. |
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Gorillas in the Mist70mm 1988 / Director: Michael Apted / 129 min. EN / CZ tit. |
City Varnsdorf is located at the heart of the border triangle Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, near the German city of Bautzen, where you can turn of the A4 motorway. For The train journey can be used the connection from Zittau or Děčín (Tetschen) with the Labe-Elbe ticket. Cinema is from the train station less than a mile. In front of the cinema is also parking for cars. For visitors from the Czech Republic we recommend the train from Decin or direct bus from Prague. Bus stop is near the cinema. Visitors can take accommodation in one of the many guesthouses in Varnsdorf.
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Panorama Restaurant will be open every day at least one hour before the first screening. |
Film Point Bar will offer entertainment throughout the night. |
http://www.facebook.com/70mmvarnsdorf/
http://www.facebook.com/CentrumPanoramaVarnsdorf
Email: 70mm@centrumpanorama.cz
Pavel Nejtek - cinema owner: +420 603 509 102 (CZ)
Zdeněk Štěpánek - technician and service for visitors: +420 774 415 269 (CZ, EN)
Office: +420 605 700 844 (CZ)
Restaurant: +420 603 519 540 (CZ)
Centrum Panorama
Západní 2618
407 47 Varnsdorf
Czech Republic
Google map
Attention, GPS brings you to the back gate for staff. Entrance to the cinema and parking is on the opposite side of the block.
3 days - 625Kč / 25€
2 days - 450Kč / 18€
1 day - 250Kč / 10€
Individual screenings: 100Kč / 4€
Hotel - Educational Center
http://www.skolavdf.cz/obsah/vzdělávací-středisko-0
Price from 420Kč/night.
The hotel is 540 meters away from the cinema.
Use password: Centrum Panorama
Ubytovna Sportovní hala (sports hostel)
https://www.regiavdf.cz/ubytovna-varnsdorf
Price from 250Kč/night.
The hostel is 300 meters away from the cinema.
Penzion Dvůr Pohody
http://www.penzion-varnsdorf.eu/
Price from 550Kč/night.
The guesthouse is 1.6km away from the cinema.
Penzion U Rudolfa III.
http://www.pensionvarnsdorf.cz/cs/
Price from 399Kč/night.
The guesthouse is 1.5km away from the cinema.
Hotel Atrium
http://hotelatriumvarnsdorf.cz/
T.G.Masaryka 1678, Varnsdorf
Telephone: +420 412 375 510
E-Mail: hotelatriumvarnsdorf@seznam.cz
Price from 980Kč/night.
The hotel is 1km away from the cinema.
Hotel Varnsdorf
https://www.hotelvarnsdorf.cz/en/
5. května 2427, Varnsdorf
Telephone: +420 777 004 396
E-Mail: hotelvarnsdorf@icloud.com
Price from 750Kč/night.
The hotel is 2.8km away from the cinema.
Penzion Fontána
http://penzionfontana.wgz.cz
Price from 350Kč/night.
The guesthouse is 1.5km away from the cinema.
Brewery Kocour
http://www.pivovar-kocour.cz/en/accommodation
Price from 470Kč/night.
The brewery is 2.8km away from the cinema.
Please contact us in case of problems with accommodation, we will help you.
Panoramatické plátno subjektivně působí při projekci širokoúhlého filmu až monumentálním dojmem, který nezažijeme v žádném ze současných ale ani bývalých pražských kin, včetně tolik vzpomínané legendární Alfy na Václavském náměstí. Celý objekt navíc vyzařuje velmi příjemnou atmosféru.
Stručně řečeno: “Cítíte se zde jako v klasickém kině.”