Welcome to 2025
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy … ONLY ONE DAY!
Pick a comfy seat below at one of the Cinemas … Get loose, relax and enjoy high fantasy adventures.
Fans of Middle Earth can experience the adventures on the big screen again. After last year’s successful Lurdy Cinema weekend, each episode will be shown for just one day!
Cinema MOM, Pólus Cinema, GoBuda Cinema, Lurdy Cinema will be showing the first film from 2001 (The Fellowship of the Ring) on Thursday, January 2nd, followed by the second episode from 2002 (The Two Towers) on Friday, January 3rd, and finally the trilogy finale from 2003 (The Return of the King) on Saturday, January 4th.
On Sunday, January 5th, fans will be treated to a full-day marathon at Lurdy Cinema and Cinema MOM. Only subtitled at MOM, with dubbing in the other complexes. The total running time is 686 minutes, nearly 11 and a half hours, which breaks down (and rounds down) to 3 and a half, 3 and three quarters, and 4 and a quarter hours per part.
Pannónia Movie Ltd. brought Peter Jackson’s legendary trilogy, which was then turning 20, to cinemas in October 2022. The films had not been officially shown on the big screen in Hungary before and were released as the domestic equivalent of an international event. With Jackson’s approval, the digitally restored 4K director’s cuts arrived in three multiplexes weekly in 2022, and then in 2024, when Lurdy also joined the Pannónia Cinema Network, Frodo and his friends arrived there for 1-1 day. The relevance was caused by two factors at the time: on the one hand, J. R. R. Tolkien’s birthday (January 3rd), and on the other hand, the 20th anniversary of the domestic premiere of the third part. The former will remain true for 2025, because for the first time, the fantasy classics will be shown simultaneously at all four locations!
This is a truly serious renovation, the trilogy is presented to us from non-disc sources, which is special because we could only watch the extended versions at home until 2022. The remaster is not just a decoration: the director himself was involved in it, and his goals were multiple. On the one hand, there were inconsistencies in the coloring in the films shot on 35mm, which was corrected. On the other hand, since the digital work on The Hobbits made available techniques that were not yet available or were only in their infancy at the turn of the millennium, this time it was possible to use them in The Lord of the Rings in order to make the works look as if they had been shot today, or at least together with the Hobbits. Knowing that not everyone is delighted with a 20-year-old rethinking, just look at the 1997 Star Wars “tunings” or the famous transceiver and CGI creature to think in 2002 E. T. The director, however, did not want to get into these, so he reused everything from the original effects, thus achieving that the tricks, which remained completely the same in design, simply look better to today’s eyes. Tickets are available on the spot at the a/m cinemas.
Update by Aggie Reiter
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