Downstairs there are two bijou ones on what used to be the orchestra level.
The biggest, an 845-seater, occupies the balcony of what was once a colossal single screen. Nowadays, it’s owned by Lisbon City Council and hosts film festivals and film-loving Lisboetas stopping by for a coffee and a chat on its terrace and a movie in one of its three screens. It’s an Anglophone legacy of the Rank Organisation’s cinema empire of the ‘40s, when the British film company used to give its films – James Bond, included – their Portuguese runs here. One biggie that endures is this legendary venue on Lisbon’s grande Avenida da Liberdade. Many of Portugal’s old cinemas have been turned into apartments, shopping malls and hotels over the past five decades.
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