The Paris Pullman is a former arthouse cinema, in the Brompton district, of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea London, England.
[1] In 1910–11, along a predominantly leafy residential street, that is Drayton Gardens, an entertainment venue opened at no.65 as the Radium Picture Playhouse, having been converted from the earlier gymnasium or arms training hall.
[6] After a makeover displaying its characteristic 1950s large lemon yellow facia dotted with lights on the front, the venue reverted to showing movies, only now they were mainly contemporary foreign films under its new brand, the "Paris Pullman Cinema".
[8] By the late 1970s the yellow facia on the front entrance had been replaced by a much more austere concrete finish, akin to the incoming Thatcher years.
The roll-call of film directors whose films were screened at the Paris Pullman included: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Walerian Borowczyk, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Claude Chabrol, Sergei Eisenstein, Miloš Forman, Werner Herzog, Philippe Mora, Yasujirō Ozu, Nagisa Oshima, Roman Polanski, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrzej Wajda and Rainer Werner Fassbinder whose Veronika Voss was the last film screened at the Paris Pullman on 8 May 1983.