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Basement Cinema (Rotorua)

Address:
1140 Hinemoa Street
Rotorua

Contact Person: Simon Reilly, Managing Director
Phone: +64 7 350 1400
Mobile: +64 21 049 4275​
Email: simon@basementcinema.co.nz​

Website: ​www.basementcinema.co.nz

Details
Capacity: 23 + 13
Screen: Two screens with e-cinema
Sound: Dolby digital
Seating: Fixed, comfortable armchairs
Snackbar: Liquor licence and snack bar
Accessibility: Good–a sloping corridor from street level

​Geoff's Review
The name suggest some dark dungeon but it really a well-lit cinema just below street level, down a gentle slope off the shopping area of Hinemoa Street. The adjacent climbing wall attracts your attention firstly, where you can usually find children scrambling up the hand-holds, whilst their anxious parents wait below.
Less prominent are the doors to Cinema 1 and Cinema 2, two smaliish cinemas which a good range of 8-10 sessions daily of art house films (eg "Melancholia" and "Submarine" in January 2012).

There are senior citizen rates and you can join up for a membership card which entitles you further benefits eg eg free coffee/wine with every 10 visits.

Attracts an older audience, who are obviously more interested in films than climbing walls, as well tourists who head to Rotorua in great numbers.
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Host the annual Magma Short Film Festival in April
(see http://www.magmafilm.org.nz)
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