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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 ...
With the release of Oppenheimer in 2023, IMAX Melbourne was one of only 30 cinemas in the world, and the only location in the Southern Hemisphere able to project the film on 1570. [ b ] 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 ...
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.
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 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.
The Blue-Line drive-in located in West Beach, Adelaide was the first drive-in located in South Australia, [32] and the first to be constructed outside of Melbourne. [33] It was opened on 28 December 1954 and was followed by the Mainline Drive-In theatre at Gepps Cross on 7 October 1955, which was Australia's first drive-in / walk-in theatre ...
One of the theatre's boxes. Typical of 1920s picture theatres, the architectural style is ornate, eclectic and exotic. The arched roof and twin domed towers of the façade is an arrangement shared by other entertainment buildings in the foreshore area, notably Luna Park next door, the St Kilda Sea Baths, and long demolished landmarks like the Palais de Danse to the north, and the St. Moritz ...