Lost in Translation 35mm
Celluloid Kids
This time, the programme of the 2026 autumn season is not tied together by a strict thematic concept, but by something much more personal. All the films ahead of us are works that, sometime around our high school years, irrevocably changed the way we think about cinema and filmmaking. We were barely teenagers when these films shocked, fascinated and confused us – and ultimately stayed with us forever. We have kept coming back to them ever since. Now, we want to revisit them together with you, watching them from 35mm prints on the big screen of the Uránia National Film Theatre.
Schedule
Celluloid Nights
The mission of Celluloid Nights is to bring back the incomparable experience of watching our favourite films projected from 35mm film prints, while perhaps offering a younger generation the chance to experience it for the very first time. While cinemas today rely almost exclusively on digital projection, watching a film on celluloid is an entirely different experience. For contemporary directors such as Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson, shooting on film is above all an artistic choice that shapes how their work will look on the big screen. In a similar spirit, Celluloid Nights celebrates the materiality of cinema, recognising the uniqueness and enduring glory of film as a physical medium.
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Tickets:
[https://urania-nf.hu/.../celluloid-nights-by-cinema-niche...]
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Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026, 7:00 PM
Venue: Uránia National Film Theatre / Main Hall
Ticket price: HUF 3,900
Running time: 102 minutes
Language: Original English audio with Hungarian subtitles
IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt0335266/
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/film/lost-in-translation/
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Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a washed-up movie star, arrives in Tokyo to shoot a whiskey commercial. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) has accompanied her husband on a trip to the city, but finds herself equally lost in this unfamiliar environment. One sleepless night, the two meet in the bar of their luxury hotel. What begins as a chance encounter gradually develops into an unusual, hard-to-define connection. Together, the two strangers venture out into the nights of Tokyo, wandering through neon-lit streets, finding themselves in strange situations and gradually growing closer. During their brief time together, they discover something they had thought lost in the familiarity of their everyday lives.
Shot on location in Japan, Sofia Coppola's film tells the story of two people finding each other in an unfamiliar city. Through their encounter, it explores loneliness, the longing for connection and those fleeting relationships that stay with us long after they have come to an end.
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The hosts of Celluloid Nights are Bálint Dezső and Dániel Rév.
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The programme is made possible with the support of the Uránia National Film Theatre and the National Cultural Fund of Hungary (NKA). The film print has been provided by the National Film Institute – Film Archive.
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Founded in 1957 and operating as a public collection since 1992, the Hungarian National Film Archive is responsible for preserving, maintaining, researching, restoring and making accessible Hungary's national film heritage, along with all related documentation.
The film prints screened as part of the Celluloid Nights series have survived thanks to the dedicated work of the archive's staff, allowing these films to come to life once again on the big screen.
Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
The Uránia National Film Theatre is unique among Hungarian cinemas as it is the only national film and cultural centre operating as an institute It is the film profession’s counterpart of the National Theatre and the Opera House, of which most important task is to present and show the treasures of contemporary and classical film art as well as organising film clubs, national and international film festivals, and other events (first nights).
