Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
Central, reasonable good selection of films |
| Disadvantages: |
small screens can be full . |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
Just around the corner from the Stefansdom and the Hoher Markt, on the corner of Schultergasse and Jordangasse, the Artis is a small five screen air-conditioned complex, showing films exclusively in English. The titles it gets are always very current although there are also special showings of classics from time to time. The fact that the cinemas are air-conditioned is great in summer when Vienna is renowned for being exceptionally sticky and muggy.
Ticket prices are not too bad, between ATS75-95 for a seat, and the kiosk offers a good selection of drinks and sweets at not too unreasonable prices, with the "Bladder buster" as we've nicknamed it - 1l of coke/sprite costing ATS55. As per a lot of cinemas in Austria there is a "Kino Montag" whereby seats are cheaper on a Monday night (usually all seats ATS70 instead of the above prices).
If you are a Creditanstalt customer, then you can get discounted tickets. The actual screens are good, and although the screens are small, each seating a maximum of about 200 people in generally, the sound is good and the seats very comfortable.
The sound systems have been given an overhaul recently, and when I watched Hannibal in February in surround sound, the sound was excellent. For a schedule of what is showing at the Artis (or any other major cinema in Austria for that matter) the site www.film.at has all the information you require including the version information.
Its central location is also great for if you want to go on for a drink or two, with a whole plethora of bars within easy walking distance of the cinema. Often it shows several films in a single cinema per day, so there is usually always something you haven't seen playing if you want to turn up on spec.
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