Cinema
2 Nov 2025
NT Live: The Fifth Step
United Kingdom | 2025 | English | Drama The Australian premiere screening of the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland stars Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) alongside Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder).
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Pavements tells the truth by telling a bunch of lies
There’s no “story” to Pavement as a band, really, other than a very brief bit of tension with the Smashing Pumpkins. Nor is their music overly primed for analysis: a song like ‘Cut Your Hair’ isn’t about anything more than the textural pleasures of its scuzzed-out guitar riffs, and choruses that go off like car bombs. What does it all mean? Well, is it a cop-out to say both everything, and absolutely nothing at all?
Surfing at the Opera House: An Unexpected History
Discover the hidden origins of Cinema at the Opera House and its connection with countercultural surf films.
Love List: Ryuichi Sakamoto by Groovescooter
Paris Pompor and Georgie Zuzak from co-presenters Groovescooter have put together a Love List dedicated to Ryuichi Sakamoto.
