English language cinemas in Rome
Italians do not believe in subtitles. Turn on the television in your hotel room and you will find that every program, from the stupidest show made for tv, to items on the news where people get interviewed in English, to art movies is dubbed into Italian. This can be quite surreal, as in “Coffee and Cigarettes”, where Roberto Benigni dubs himself from clumsy English into perfect Italian.
The same goes for the cinema. There used to be one theatre that showed movies in English (the Pasquino, in Trastevere), but at the moment there are only some theatres that show some movies in English and that sometimes even only on some days of the week.
You know the movie is in English when it is billed as VO (Versione Originale).
Cinemas in Rome that show movies in English
The Metropolitan (Via del Corso, 7, Tel: 063200933) always has one screen showing a movie in English, generally the biggest blockbuster of the moment.
From the B&B Chaplin Hostel Rome you take the subway to Flaminio (line A, 4 stops), take the Piazza del Popolo-exit and on the Piazza take the middle one of the 3 streets that form the “tridente”.
Warner Village Moderno (Piazza della Repubblica, 44, Tel: 0647779111) is another one of the cinemas in Rome that show movies in the original language (original language, by the way, 99 times out of a hundred means that it is in English), but unless the film in question is really big (on the scale of Harry Potter or Starwars) during the weekends they will revert to the dubbed versions.
From the Hostel Chaplin Bed and Breakfast Rome you walk to Termini, look for the main exit, onto the bus square. You will see a big white building in the background. Walk towards this building and you will be on Piazza della Repubblica.