The Curzon in Soho was the first new cinema to be built in Central London after the Second World War. The Curzon is sunk underneath a building designed by Harold Wingate, and it opened in the late 1950’s. It changed to its current incarnation in the late 1990’s after extensive alterations turned the one screen cinema into a three-screen venue, and it became known as the Curzon Soho. The cinema shows a mixture of mainstream, independent and foreign films as well as short films, and is one of London’s most innovative film theatres.