Comments on: English movie cinema in Suzhou

By: jolee

jolee — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:24:42 +0000

so you can watch english movies at Olympic square? I remember going to a theatre there but it didnt have any movies with english, where else do they show english language movies?

By: sivajitv

sivajitv — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:20:32 +0000

Its a good site to get information about the movies..

sivajitv

By: shruthi

shruthi — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:15:48 +0000

I do believe that SSAC is a very good site to watch

http://cinemabuster.info

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Thu, 08 May 2008 14:09:46 +0000

[...] a cafe/bookshop/lending library loaded to the rafters with English-language books, we’ve got an English-language movie cinema playing Iron Man, and now… well, [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:14:37 +0000

Hey Joe, interesting site you’ve got there. Should you really be watermarking images that aren’t yours though?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:38:39 +0000

Yep.
I do believe that SSCAC is a really good place to watch movie, not only the nice building, but also the fantastic audio system. I suggest you can view,
http://www.liveinsuzhou.com/article.asp?id=167
for detail about SSCAC.
Hope you like it.

By: A more harmonious and consumerist Suzhou Industry Park | rice again

A more harmonious and consumerist Suzhou Industry Park | rice again — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:00:20 +0000

[...] Harmony Times Square, a 100,000sqm shopping mall is planned to open on September 28 this year adding to the increasingly super modern area around jinji lake and the new Suzhou Science and Cultural Arts Centre (pictured), where incidentally you can see English films. [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:13:41 +0000

@Chris: Find out about the ones in Dalian or the ones in Suzhou? With Dalian it was trial and error. When I first got here it was after travelling in a number of different countries, and they all played English-language films. I (naively) assumed that China operated in a similar way – didn’t realize then how developed the Beijing dub industry was.

But after walking into all the cinemas in You Hao Guangchang (and beating back the ~~dates~~ hookers) I ended up in Warner Wanda at Olympic Square.

When Maggie came into the picture, I just had her open the newspaper and call the bigger cinemas. Much less leg work (and fewer hookers).

Upon moving to Suzhou I did the same (walking into the cinemas in the major shopping areas – like Guanqian Jie), but nada. Then I had heard about this new IMAX place opening up and its location (foreigner-smothered SIP) seemed to indicate they’d have Western movies… and then life got in the way and I promptly forgot all about it until about a week ago I was talking with some friends about wanting to see 10,000 BC and they said it was playing there.

Bit of a long explanation eh? haha.

@Jakob: Yeah, I went to see a film in Shanghai and left when I saw the price (I used the same argument as you). However Dalian’s were reasonable (30-40 RMB) and this new place here in Suzhou is not bad either. Even with some good surround, nothing beats the big screen.

By: Jakob Montrasio

Jakob Montrasio — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:20:59 +0000

Sweet! Here in Shanghai the cinema costs about 80 kuai… I always think, hey, that’s at least 8 DVD-9’s, and I bought a nice home cinema with Dolby Digital…
So I’m watching always everything at home.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:23:41 +0000

Hah! How’d you find out about it! I lived in Dalian for nine months, and it never actually even occurred to me to seek out such a place. I don’t think Xiamen’s got one.