The Astor Theatre, the iconic single-screen repertory cinema in Melbourne’s Bayside suburb of St Kilda, has announced that due to the collapse of negotiations with the Art Deco building’s ...

Thereafter, as Mary Astor, she enjoyed a profitable, if not sensational, cinema career. In 1930 Miss Astor’s first husband, Director Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane smash.

Jelena Dokic at the Astor Theatre for her Melbourne documentary screening. Dokic attended the world premiere of Unbreakable in Brisbane on November 3 and has also been to the launch in Sydney.

The film premiered earlier this year at Melbourne’s International Film Festival. Since then, screenings at independent cinemas across the city have regularly sold out, as Melburnians rush to ...