Golden Age Cinema and Bar Winter Program Highlights

Golden Age Cinema and Bar have just launched a new Winter program combining cult favourites and new releases as well as a range of awesome film-inspired cocktails and bar menu to match.

The venue is set within the restored Paramount Building at 80 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. The original 35mm film projectors remain in the projection room and there is a beautiful, intimate bar space.

Some highlights from the Winter Program include:

Golden Films at Golden Age Prices: Runs every Tuesday night and each ticket costs the same as the year the film was released. Mad Max screens Tuesday August 19 at 8.30pm and Nashville screens Tuesday August 26 at 8.30pm. 

Calvary, an Irish drama/comedy that screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, follows a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. It screens Thursday 14th August at 8.30pm, Friday 15th August at 6.30pm and Wednesday 20th August at 8.30pm. Tickets are selling fast for the first two sessions. 

On Friday 29^th August you can catch two of the year’s most exhilarating films in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (6.30pm) and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (9.00pm).

Inglourious Basterds, the first of Tarantino’s historical vengeance narratives re-writes history and embeds the satisfying functions of the revenge film behind heavy historical figures and events. Screens Saturday 16th August at 9pm. 

Golden Daytime Sundays features films from the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Harvey (Sun 17^th August 3pm), Pillow Talk (Sun 24^th August 3pm) and a digitally restored vision of Chinatown (Sun August 31, 3pm).

No cinema ticket? No worries. All are welcome in the Golden Age bar. It’s open from 5pm until late, Tuesday through Saturday, and from 2.30pm until late on Sunday.

For more information about the venue and the upcoming schedule visit the Golden Age website, and be sure to follow them on Facebook and Twitter.