Lido Cinemas tonight unveils their rooftop space, with James Bond’s Spectre as the first film to be shown. The space in Hawthorn features a rooftop screen, beanbags, deck chairs, and a separate bar. Spectre will play from opening night, Thursday 12th November until Wednesday 18th November. Check out the full film program here…
Film Program:
November 2015
19th, 20th, 21st and 24th November: Continuing with another highly anticipated film that needs no introduction, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 stars Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence in the final instalment of the worldwide blockbuster.
22nd November: Directed by Billy Ray and starring Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts, Secret in Their Eyes is a must-see murder mystery.
23rd November: Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon’s timely thriller 99 Homes, about a deal-with-the-devil that comes with an increasingly high cost.
The rest of November you’ll also be able to see these new releases: Love the Coopers, By The Sea, Hotel Transylvania 2 and The Princess Bride.
December 2015
2nd December: December at Lido on the Roof will kick off with The Program, starring Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd and Dustin Hoffman. From Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) comes the incredible true story about the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstrong.
3rd and 4th December: Chris Hemsworth stars in In the Heart of the Sea, revealing the harrowing aftermath of a real-life maritime disaster.
5th, 6th and 8th December: To mark the beginning of the festive season Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anthony Mackie star in The Night Before, a comedy about their Christmas Eve debauchery.
16th December: Moving over to family favourites and classics, Christmas is not complete without a screening of Elf, where Will Ferrell plays Buddy, an elf on the hilarious search for his family.
9th December: One of the biggest hits of 2015 was Mad Max: Fury Road, where Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron unite for the outstanding remake of the Aussie classic.
17th December – 24th December: Set to be one of the biggest openings this year is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher along with a brilliant line up. Playing from opening night until Christmas Eve for eight nights in a row.
Christmas Day kicks off three nights of screenings of Joy, the wild story of a family across four generations centred on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right, starring the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper.
December rounds up with showings of Daddy’s Home and The Good Dinosaur.
January 2016
January 2016 opens with Point Break showing from 1st January, followed by The Peanuts Movie, The Revenant, Sisters, Goosebumps, The Big Short, Spotlight, The Hateful Eight and The Danish Girl, as well as two classics, The Lion King and Pulp Fiction.
14th and 15th January: One of the highlights for January is Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Therese Belivet, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novella The Price of Salt about the burgeoning relationship between two very different women in 1950s New York.
Saturday 16th January: Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh.
February 2016
Friday 12th February: The highly-anticipated Zoolander 2 with Ben Stiller.
13th February: Deadpool, starring Morena Baccarin, Ryan Reynolds and Gina Carano, where a former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers and adopts the alter ego Deadpool.
Lido on the Roof will run until April 2016, and further programming will be announced shortly.
Lido on the Roof
7 days a week, all rooftop showings start at 9pm
675 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn
For more information, visit their website:
lidocinemas.com.au
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