Zsebtolvaj 35mm (Celluloid Nights by Cinema Niche)
Cinema /////////// Pickpocket /////////// 35mm /////////// Robert Bresson /////////// Cinema Niche /////////// Urania
The Celluloid Nights autumn season opens with three screenings centered around the transcendental style. Paul Schrader, a legendary figure of New Hollywood (and notably the screenwriter of Taxi Driver), articulated in his influential book how cinema’s form can reveal itself as a spiritual experience.
The opening film is one of the cornerstones of this theory: Robert Bresson’s classic Pickpocket. The following two films in the series, however, leave Schrader’s path, venturing into different directors and stylistic universes to uncover the possibilities of transcendental experience from new perspectives.
The mission of Celluloid Nights is to revive the unrepeatable experience of watching our favorite films on 35mm film stock, while giving a younger generation the rare chance to encounter it for the first time. While most cinemas today project digitally, the experience of film on celluloid is something entirely different.
For contemporary filmmakers like Christopher Nolan or Paul Thomas Anderson, shooting on film is first and foremost an artistic decision that profoundly shapes how their works appear on the big screen. Likewise, Celluloid Nights celebrates the materiality of film, recognizing its uniqueness and eternal glory as a physical medium.
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Tickets:
https://urania-nf.hu/.../celluloid-nights-by-cinema-niche...
Schedule
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🎬 Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025 – 19:00
🎬 Venue: Urania / Main Hall
🎬 Ticket price: 3900 HUF
🎬 Duration: 75 minutes
🎬 Language: Original French with Hungarian subtitles
🎬 IMDB: imdb.com/title/tt0053168/
🎬 Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/film/pickpocket/
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A lonely young man discovers freedom and detachment from the outside world through the art of pickpocketing. Michel constructs his world with precision and emotional detachment, where stealing becomes more ritual than crime. Bresson’s camera strips away every unnecessary gesture, turning the film itself into a ritual, mirroring Michel’s thefts.
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The Celluloid Nights regular host: Bálint Dezső, member of the Cinema Niche team.
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The program is realized with the support of Urania National Film Theatre and NKA. The print is provided by the National Film Institute – Film Archive.
Founded in 1957 and operating as a public collection since 1992, the Hungarian film archive is dedicated to preserving, conserving, researching, restoring, and making available the nation’s film heritage and related documentation.
The prints screened in the Celluloid Nights series have survived thanks to the efforts of the archive’s staff and are brought back 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).