Bio Paradis
Hverfisgotu 54,
Reykjavik
101
Hverfisgotu 54,
Reykjavik
101
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Bio Paradis (Official)
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Functions: Movies (Classic), Movies (Film Festivals), Movies (Foreign), Movies (Independent)
Previous Names: Regnboginn Cinema
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
354.412.7712
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This Reykjavik theater showed first run films. The twin-screen Regnboginn Cinema was the first multi-screen to operate in Iceland and opened in 1977. It was closed at the end of a 30-years lease in 2007.
It was reopened as an arthouse cinema on September 17, 2010 and was renamed Bio Paradis. It now operates with 3-screens and since 2012 it is a member of the Europa Group of arthouse cinemas. It hosts the annual Reykjavik Film Festival.
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Ken McIntyre
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There is a photo of the theater on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/28lb8f
Better than the Brazilians, for sure.
A 2009 picture:
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Regnboginn Cinema was the first multiplex to open in Iceland in 1980. It closed at the expiry of a 30-year lease. The Cinema’s received a major makeover removing its front and becoming a posh art house called Bio Paradis on September 17, 2010. Run by a non-profit organisation supported by the Association of Icelandic Film Producers, the Filmmakers' Association, the Film Directors' Guild of Iceland, RIFF and the Film Society, the theater is associated with Europa Cinemas playing imported art films the Europe and the United States in a variety of different languages along with Icelandic feature films and shorts.
At launch. a shop with arthouse DVD’s, books adjoined its bar and concession bar. That has since been removed in favor of a larger bar and gathering area. Film titles can play a single day and replaced with another art title the next. The now three-screen venue is also home to the Reykjavík International Film Festival.