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Ritz Cinemas

Sydney, NSW

A 1937 Art Deco cinema in Randwick, designed by Aaron Bolot and one of only two original Art Deco cinemas remaining in Sydney. Heritage-listed, family-owned, with the lowest-priced tickets in town. The original main auditorium is among Sydney's largest, with seven additional screens added across renovations in 1996, 2002, and 2023. Forty-eight weeks a year of 35mm and 70mm celluloid programming under the This Is Celluloid banner; Cinema Reborn and Fantastic Film Festival Australia in residence. Mel Gibson helped save it from demolition in 1999.

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45 St. Pauls Street, Randwick, Randwick NSW 2031
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Sydney
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