Cinemas

London's cinemas worth crossing town for: the repertory and arthouse houses, the picture palaces kept going, the one IMAX, and the rooms above pubs and behind bars where the programme is somebody's taste. What is showing is listed under each cinema, and in What's On.

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BFI IMAX

The largest cinema screen in Britain, in a glass drum in the middle of a roundabout.

New releasesIMAX

One screen, and the reason to come is its size: nothing else in the country is as big, and the auditorium is built so that the picture fills the whole of your vision rather than sitting in front of you. The programme is the blockbusters released in the format, alongside documentary and educational presentations made for it and occasional older films given an IMAX transfer.

It is run by the British Film Institute, whose four-screen repertory house is a few minutes' walk along the river, and the two programmes are deliberately unalike.

Where
1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, SE1 8XR
Nearest station
Waterloo · 3 min walk

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