A sublime documentary from Albert Serra, Afternoons of Solitude follows celebrated Peruvian matador Andrés Roca Rey through the charged ritual of modern bullfighting. Filmed across Spain’s grandest arenas, Serra captures the ceremony and cruelty of the corrida with his patient, painterly gaze. Moving between the quiet solitude of hotel rooms and the ecstatic violence of the ring, the Catalan filmmaker crafts an unforgettable portrait of man and beast, the mythic and the mortal, theatre and death. At once a harrowing ritual and a hypnotic fantasy, Afternoons of Solitude affirms Serra as one of contemporary cinema’s most fearless and incisive image-makers.

PRE-RELEASE SCREENING presented by BEYOND HORROR - ALL TIX $15 - Based on the global hit video game created by KOTAKE CREATE, this mind-bending psychological thriller comes to the Eclipse Cinema. - A man becomes increasingly desperate when he finds himself trapped in an endless, sterile subway passageway with no way out. He finds a set of rules: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. When even a single mistake will send him back to the beginning, will he ever escape this purgatory? - Season commences daily from 23rd April...

Regular Pedro Almodóvar collaborator Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver) plays María Ángeles, a woman happily living out her golden years in the sun-drenched Tangiers apartment where she’s resided for decades. Her peaceful existence is threatened, however, when her daughter Clara visits from Madrid with plans to sell the house. Having just endured a bitter divorce, Clara needs extra income to support herself and her children. But María Ángeles isn’t ready to give up her beloved home and community, so she concocts a crafty plan to buy back her home and furniture. In doing so, she’s swept into a completely unexpected romance with an antiques dealer that reawakens some dormant desires. - This humorous, heartfelt drama playfully and provocatively challenges stereotypes about ageing, sexuality, independence and familial expectations. With assured direction from Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan) and a magical lead performance from Maura, this is Morocco’s worthy entry for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards.

Bounty x Eclipse - CULT FILM SERIES - Commando Ninja 1 & 2 - See both films for $15 - COMMANDO NINJA: Double Bill - John Hunter is Vietnam Green Beret Veteran, Half Commando, Half Ninja, whose daughter has been abducted by a secret Ninja Organization, led by a Central-American dictator, who wants to create a new-world order – through time.

Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2. the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation. The film is directed by David Frankel, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and Aline Brosh McKenna. - Cast: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci

Bounty x Eclipse - CULT FILM SERIES - All tickets $15 9.15pm Saturday Nights in May - Two Mexican day laborers are unexpected guests at their employer's intimate dinner party. The resulting clash of cultures and beliefs takes the evening to new heights - and depths - of desire, hedonism, and conflict.

Based on the global hit video game created by KOTAKE CREATE, this mind-bending psychological thriller comes to cinemas on April 23 in Australia and New Zealand. A man becomes increasingly desperate when he finds himself trapped in an endless, sterile subway passageway with no way out. He finds a set of rules: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. When even a single mistake will send him back to the beginning, will he ever escape this purgatory?

A delightfully gothic adventure for your budding bookworms from the book series by Daniel Handler, with wit, whimsy, and delectable art direction and costuming! Three unfortunate orphan siblings are sent to live with an eccentric and scheming relative whose only interest is their inheritance. As the children try to escape his dastardly clutches, he dons a number of ridiculous disguises to fool them back into the fold. Nominated four 4 Academy Awards and winner of Best Makeup with an incredible cast including Catherine O’Hara, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, and of course shapeshifter Jim Carrey, this stylish romp is ready for our big screen!

Based on Enid Blyton’s best-selling children’s classic The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly and Tim and their children Beth, Joe and Fran – a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. Soon after the family’s arrival in the countryside, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot and Saucepan Man. At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the family learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years.

Bounty x Eclipse - CULT FILM SERIES - All tickets $15 9.15pm Saturday Nights in May - Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man’s widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie’s short stay in the village take an unexpected turn…

A rare film from Iraq, this Cannes prize winner is a charming and touching debut about a young girl’s daring quest to bake a cake in the time of Saddam Hussein. - It’s 1990 in Iraq, and under the iron fist of Saddam Hussein extreme poverty is on the rise. Despite the circumstances, it’s still mandatory that all Iraqis celebrate the president’s birthday. An unlucky classroom draw finds nine-year-old Lamia given the unenviable task of baking the birthday cake for her class. Accompanied by grandmother, Lamia departs her home in the marshes for the big city, to procure the ingredients for the dreaded cake. Beautifully shot and acted, and with a keen sense of time and place, this film makes for an exhilarating adventure.

Bounty x Eclipse - Meet Director James Huang, cast and Filmmakers for a Q&A following the screening. - A tax audit forces a couple (James Huang, Elizabeth Sandy) to come to terms with what brought them to the brink of divorce.

DOUBLE BILL screens with NIRVANNA THE MOVIE (tix sold separately) - 9pm NIRVANNA / 10.40pm THE DIRTIES - Matt Johnson’s (Blackberry, Operation Avalanche, Nirvana the Band the Show) first feature, THE DIRTIES is one of the most haunting coming-of-age films of the decade.Told with equal parts satire and warning through a raw, painfully authentic feeling found-footage style, and with almost no scripted dialogue, THE DIRTIES is a darkly comic and deeply disturbing exploration of friendship, obsession, and the power of storytelling.

From director Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario, Sick of Myself) and powerhouse studio A24 comes The Drama. The film follows happily engaged couple, Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), whose relationship falls apart in the days leading up to their wedding. After an unexpected confession about a terrible secret in their past, their wedding week descends into chaos, testing their trust and perception of one another.

BUBS SESSION - All welcome! - From director Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario, Sick of Myself) and powerhouse studio A24 comes The Drama. The film follows happily engaged couple, Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), whose relationship falls apart in the days leading up to their wedding. After an unexpected confession about a terrible secret in their past, their wedding week descends into chaos, testing their trust and perception of one another.

$10 TIX - The Housewarming Club presents: THE DRAMA - $10 French Blanc de blancs champagne special! - From director Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario, Sick of Myself) and powerhouse studio A24 comes The Drama. The film follows happily engaged couple, Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), whose relationship falls apart in the days leading up to their wedding. After an unexpected confession about a terrible secret in their past, their wedding week descends into chaos, testing their trust and perception of one another.

Bounty x Eclipse - CULT FILM SERIES - All tickets $15 9.15pm Saturday Nights in May - A young American woman who works restoring antique oil paintings is summoned to a palace in a small, remote Italian village to save a work of art that has been blackened by fire. She soon discovers that strange things are happening in the village, as gruesome monsters and witches from the past start to appear.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE 4k Restoration ANGST is based on the true story of mass murderer Werner Kniesek. Lauded as one of the best serial killer films ever made, ANGST is an exercise in fear and disturbance. Featuring innovative camera work for its time and incredible performances, ANGST puts you in the mind of a compulsive killer in the moments of the act, making it both a chilling and compelling experience. Renowned for its influence on filmmakers including Gaspar Noé (ENTER THE VOID)

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE - 4k Restoration Hailed by The Guardian as “the last great film of the 90s”, Human Traffic is an unapologetic celebration of club culture and hedonism that has lost none of its energy. - Five Cardiff friends — trapped in dead-end jobs, bad relationships and dysfunctional families — plan a night out to remember. What follows is a wild, funny and surprisingly tender journey through clubs, drugs, pubs and parties, with unexpected epiphanies along the way. - Propelled by a joyous central performance from John Simm and marking Danny Dyer's barnstorming feature debut, the film crackles with authenticity — and an unparalleled soundtrack featuring Underworld, Matthew Herbert, Fatboy Slim, Primal Scream and Orbital.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE 4k Restoration Small-town girl Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) is determined to make it as feature dancer in the bitch-eat-bitch, sex-soaked world of the Las Vegas showrooms.The reigning queen of Sin City Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon) is not going to give up her crown – or man (Kyle MacLachlan) – without a fight. Imagined by master stylist director Paul Verhoeven and legendary screenwriter of the outrageous Joe Eszterhas (the duo behind Basic Instinct), Showgirls is more than a movie – it's a phenomenon.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE - 4k Restoration Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world. - Loved by young fans of the Super Mario Bros video game, made with a huge budget and stellar cast, this sci-fi action thriller from 1993 has attained cult status for its audacious script and special effects. - Blast off for nonstop excitement with the first ever live-action adaptation of a popular video game!

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE 4k Restoration Widely considered to be the most shocking and hallucinatory horror movie in history -and described by Argento as "an escalating experimental nightmare", SUSPIRIA stars Jessica Harper as a young American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious European dance academy and is confronted by a series of bizarre and horrific deaths. Packed with vicious violence, ultra gory effects and dazzling cinematic set pieces, SUSPIRIA is a gruesomely Gothic masterpiece of the macabre.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the 1960s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.

UMBRELLA x ECLIPSE - 25th Anniversary Release Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher—which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.

ENCORE SCREENING - Special Guests in attendance - Hip hop is the most popular genre of music in the world. Nowhere is this more prevalent then in the city of Melbourne, Australia. - From Energy Transfer and Backstreet Boogie who brought breakdancing from the streets to the public’s attention, graffiti crews such as DMA and WCA bombing walls and trains, underground rap battles in the 1990s, to the mainstream rise of local MCs and producers in the 2000s, Undeniable captures the beats, the struggles and the triumphs of a city and hip-hop community that forged its own identity and movement. - The film also explores hip hop’s cultural impact in Melbourne and wider Australia — from fashion to music, the radio to the clubs — revealing how Melbourne’s scene created a unique voice that is now recognised on the world stage. Featuring exclusive interviews with pioneering artists such as Bias B, DJ Peril, Brad Strut, Plutonic Lab, DJ J-Red, Maundz, Ciecmate and host of others, the film shines a spotlight on the people and stories that shaped an entire cultural landscape. - Hip hop in Melbourne was never just about music — it was about identity, survival, and expression. This documentary is about giving a voice to the pioneers and showing the world that Melbourne’s unique contribution to the global hip-hop narrative and the cities impact on local hip hop culture is in fact Undeniable.

Bounty x Eclipse - Meet Director Matt Williamsand the Filmmakers at this cult classic film night! - High-school students Wanda and Sully join forces to investigate SRC president Jonathan's activities after uncovering his potential involvement in an embezzlement scheme.

Bounty x Eclipse - CULT FILM SERIES - All tickets $15 9.15pm Saturday Nights in May - Kevin Smith presents... When an ambiguously Intentioned masked man kidnaps a drug-addicted punk singer, it triggers a police investigation and a media circus.