Ascot Theatre
242 Pitt Street,
Sydney,
NSW
2000
242 Pitt Street,
Sydney,
NSW
2000
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Remember this cinema well from the late 1970s. In 1978 Easter, saw the Leif Garrett movie ‘Skateboard’ and in 1979 saw ‘Superman’ as well as ‘The Main Event’. A big screen cinema that was also very comfortable.
Yes, the Ascot was still screening films at least until 1984. The Giorgio Moroder restoration of Metropolis played there that year. I have clippings of the original nespaper advertisements and reviews.
I could be wrong and maybe there was another single screen cinema in the Pitt St block between Park and Market Streets in the early 1980s with a similar name(and I do not mean the Lyceum Theatre). This says the Ascot was closed in 1976 but I remember seeing Superman 3(the one with Richard Pryor) there in 1983. Well when I say I saw Superman 3 I say most of it. My mother and I were late and missed the first few minutes. I also remember playing the video game Frogger there around the same time period. If I remember correctly the Ascot was run by Village where as the Pitt Centre and the Lyceum, both in the same block, were run by Greater Union.
70mm films that played at the Ascot can be found within this list.