Tag: The Astor Theatre

Screening: LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR

I’ve been sitting on a draft of this blog post for weeks—not entirely sure how to express myself fully. So now, I’ll defer to the words of the Cinemaniacs team because they nail it….

On 12th July 2025, Cinemaniacs screen LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR (dir. Richard Brooks, 1977) on the Astor SuperScreen, introduced by Emma Westwood.

“Cinemaniacs founder, Lee Gambin, always wanted to screen GOODBAR, but the screening rights were not available until recently. This is a very special screening for the Cinemaniacs team. We finally get to share this incredible film with our audience, something that Lee always wanted to do. The screening also takes place the day before what would have been Lee’s 46th birthday.

While GOODBAR is anything but upbeat, come and watch this wonderful film that Lee wanted to share with us. Celebrate him, stay healthy and live forever!”

Book your tickets directly with The Astor Theatre. See you there!

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Screening: SECONDS

Saturday 3rd February is the day when you lucky folks get the chance to see one of the most misunderstood films of the 20th century, SECONDS (1966), on the gigantic Astor Theatre screen to kick-off Cinemaniacs‘ 2024 program.

IT WILL BE AND LOOK AMAZING!

Watch the trailer below for a taste of this forthcoming spectacle, then click on the link for tickets. I’m doing the intro and I’m proud to say I literally wrote the book on the film with my writing partner-in-crime, Jez Conolly.

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ALIEN 4K restoration screening

It’s hard to believe Ridley Scott’s transcendent sci-fi/horror classic ALIEN is now 40 years old. What a film and what a legacy.

Accordingly, I’ll be celebrating this milestone birthday with a few hundred or so of my closest friends when Tristan Jones and I introduce the special ALIEN 4K restoration screening at The Astor Theatre in St Kilda, Friday 26th April. Here’s what the folks from the Astor have to say about it:

“To celebrate 40 years of the original cinematic space nightmare, we are presenting a new 4K restoration of the original theatrical cut of ALIEN to mark its 40th anniversary. The film was restored in 4K in 2018 by 20th Century Fox at Company 3/Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, supervised by Ridley Scott and Pam Dery. The 4K scans were done at EFilm and the audio restoration was done by Audio Mechanics.

But that’s not all – in this special “Alien Day” double feature, we will be following the screening of ALIEN with the return of the rare 70mm 6-track magnetic Dolby surround sound print of ALIENS. The way this original print sounds will blow you away!

This is enough to make any ALIEN fan scream! Expect some additional surprise on the night too – and keep en eye on Duke so we don’t have to go back on the ship and get him!”

Tristan and I will have more to say about it on the night. Buy your tickets here…

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