The Golden Age of cinema is back!

(photo courtesy of Mart Basa)

This was originally posted on the Macleay Newsroom website. 

Calling all movie buffs: Surry Hills has an old and improved cinema.

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The Golden Age Cinema and Bar has just opened in Commonwealth Street, and it’s the most charming cinema you’ve seen. Tickets for its opening season of classics are selling out fast.

For all you drinkers out there, the 60-seat cinema caters to your needs. There’s a bar inside the cinema, which allows audiences to drink at their leisure. The choice of classic cocktails, highball drinks and a range of beers will leave you spoilt for choice.

The quaint theatre doesn’t serve your typical cinema ‘choc-top ice-cream and buttered popcorn’ foods. Viewers have a choice of cured meats, cheese plates and marinated mushrooms. Have no fear, sandwiches, sundaes and ‘cocktail popcorn’ will still be available to purchase.

Ticket prices vary as they’re based on how much admission would’ve been when the film was first released. The showing of Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup (1933) sold out with tickets selling at 5 cents each! Yes, you read that correctly, 5 cents each.

Here are the top-five timeless films to watch:

1. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
2. Poltergeist (1982)
3. The Breakfast Club (1985)
4. Mala Noche (1986)
5. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

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