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Palace Cinemas is an Australian cinema chain that specialises in arthouse and international films.. Their head office are based in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra and they operate locations in New South Wales (Central Park, [1] Norton Street, Byron Bay, Ballina [2] & Oxford St), [3] Victoria (Coburg, Brighton Bay, Northcote, Balwyn, Brighton, South Yarra, Melbourne, Moonee Ponds & The ...
Curtin House is a six-storey Commercial Palazzo style building on Swanston Street in the Melbourne city centre, built in 1922 for the Tattersalls Club with offices to rent, and transformed in the early 2000s into a 'vertical laneway', with a range of specialist retailing, dining, and entertainment spaces occupying every floor and the roof.
The cinema is located eight storeys beneath the Melbourne Museum, and is the largest IMAX theatre in the Southern Hemisphere [1] [2] and the second largest in the world [3] by screen size, at 32 m × 23 m (105 ft × 75 ft). [30] The cinema seats 461 people, including 25 VIP seats. [31]
The Westgarth Theatre, formerly the Valhalla Cinema and now operating as the Palace Westgarth, is a heritage-listed movie theatre in the Westgarth neighbourhood of Northcote in Melbourne, Australia. It is the oldest continually-operating, purpose-built cinema in the city.
Rivoli Cinema. The Rivoli Cinemas is an excellent example of Streamline Moderne, also known as Art Moderne, the late 1930s version of Art Deco architecture. [1] It is the only intact surviving example in Victoria of the work of cinema specialist architects H. Vivian Taylor and Soilleaux, a practice responsible for the architecture or acoustics of more than 500 cinemas and theatres in Australia ...
The cinemas of the Sun Theatre are all named after closed-down cinemas in Melbourne, in particular Yarraville and the Western suburbs. [2] Grand, named after the last cinema to close operations in Footscray, is the Sun's largest cinema. Barkly, named after once famous Footscray cinema, is based on the dress circle of the original Sun.
The cinema was built for Amalgamated Pictures Ltd, whose directors included J. H. Tait and W. Gibson. Its architects were Klingender and Alsop, with assistance from Nahum Barnett. It was built in the style of a live theatre, with boxes near the proscenium, but with a slightly sloping ceiling, for improved acoustics, [1] as well as a raked floor.
ACMI has two main cinemas located on Level 2 of the museum, which were the first cinemas in Australia equipped to present Digital Cinema (DCP). Today the cinemas continue to be equipped to screen analog formats including 16mm film, 35mm film, HDCAM, Digital Betacam and SP Betacam. [108] Cinema 1 seats 168 and Cinema 2 seats 390. [109]