Lido Cinema (Hamilton)
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Address:
Level 1, Centre Place, 501 Victoria St, Hamilton 3204 Contact Person: Emma Pottinger (Manager ) [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/lido.cinema.hamilton Phone: +64 7 838 9010 Email: [email protected] Website: www.lidocinema.co.nz |
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Details
Capacity: 108 + 106 + 93
Screen: Three screens, DCP, BluRay
Sound: Dolby digital
Seating: Comfortable, armchair style. Recliners in the front row.
Snackbar: Liquor licence, coffee and cafe food. excellent ice cream
Accessibility: Lift and escalator to balcony from ground floor shops. Large foyer space.
Capacity: 108 + 106 + 93
Screen: Three screens, DCP, BluRay
Sound: Dolby digital
Seating: Comfortable, armchair style. Recliners in the front row.
Snackbar: Liquor licence, coffee and cafe food. excellent ice cream
Accessibility: Lift and escalator to balcony from ground floor shops. Large foyer space.
7.30 Geoff's Review
This cinema is my local, a feature of the upmarket Centreplace mall in central Hamilton, where I get to see between 50-60 films a year. In earlier times, it housed the Village Showcase and the Rialto Hamilton but the latter closed its doors in mid-2009. In then re-emerged as the Lido Hamilton, a sister cinema to the Lido in Auckland.
It is a lovely cinema, with a grand foyer. My beloved Josephine says the foyer reminds her of a very up-market bordello but I don't know why she would know about such places! It has all the touches you also find in the Auckland Lido--lovely furnishings (and bookcases), attentive young staff, a great range of refreshments, and a diverse film programme which focuses on art house titles--but also some mainstream films.
It serves an older, discerning audience but like cinemas in other university cities, it hasn't yet cracked the student market. Hosts the NZ International Film Festival (and the BIg Film Quiz), along with other festivals such as the French FF, Show Me Shorts and the local film festival Misty Flicks. The Hamilton Film Society meets there on Monday nights at 7.30pm.
A warning for the unwary: as you watch a film at The Lido, you may experience tremors under your seat. This is not a special effect but results from trains travelling underground beneath Centre Place. A bit disturbing when you are watching a doco like 'When A City Falls'!
Hoyts Metro, an urban-styled cinema, is nearby and screens a more commercial mix of films.
My life would be impoverished without the Lido.
This cinema is my local, a feature of the upmarket Centreplace mall in central Hamilton, where I get to see between 50-60 films a year. In earlier times, it housed the Village Showcase and the Rialto Hamilton but the latter closed its doors in mid-2009. In then re-emerged as the Lido Hamilton, a sister cinema to the Lido in Auckland.
It is a lovely cinema, with a grand foyer. My beloved Josephine says the foyer reminds her of a very up-market bordello but I don't know why she would know about such places! It has all the touches you also find in the Auckland Lido--lovely furnishings (and bookcases), attentive young staff, a great range of refreshments, and a diverse film programme which focuses on art house titles--but also some mainstream films.
It serves an older, discerning audience but like cinemas in other university cities, it hasn't yet cracked the student market. Hosts the NZ International Film Festival (and the BIg Film Quiz), along with other festivals such as the French FF, Show Me Shorts and the local film festival Misty Flicks. The Hamilton Film Society meets there on Monday nights at 7.30pm.
A warning for the unwary: as you watch a film at The Lido, you may experience tremors under your seat. This is not a special effect but results from trains travelling underground beneath Centre Place. A bit disturbing when you are watching a doco like 'When A City Falls'!
Hoyts Metro, an urban-styled cinema, is nearby and screens a more commercial mix of films.
My life would be impoverished without the Lido.