Cinemas are back on the cultural map this summer, with lockdown easing and big releases on the slate. A fair few of them have used the time while shuttered to lick of paint, Berlin’s historic Blauer Stern – ‘Blue Star’ – has gone a step further and reinvented itself as the cinema that most looks like a sexy ‘70s nightclub. And we are so incredibly here for it.
When Germany’s cinemas reopen, the lucky people of Berlin’s Pankow district will discover their neighbourhood kino freshly transformed in electric blue and ‘cinema red’.