Mexico City Travel Guide (Mexico City, Mexico)

Mainstream Hollywood movies make it to Mexico just a few weeks after their release in the US and often before they get a European release. With the exception of movies for kids, they're almost always in their original language with subtitles, and since you'll usually only pay around US$3-4 (often half price on Wed), a visit to the flicks can be a cheap and entertaining night out. Movies are listed on Friday and Sunday in The News and more thoroughly every week in Tiempo Libre , as well as in most of the Spanish- language dailies.

There are cinemas scattered all over the city though none anywhere near the Zócalo. One of the largest concentrations is along the length of Insurgentes Sur where there are half a dozen multiplex adding up to perhaps fifty screens in all. Well off the Metro system, they are not particularly convenient and you might prefer the handier places in the Zona Rosa such as Lumiére Prado Coapa, Londres 127 (tel 5511-1309), and Lumiére Reforma, Río Guadalquivir 104 at Reforma (tel 5514-0000); or in Polanco where there is Cinemex Casa de Arte, Anatole France 120 (tel 5257-6969).