Collingwood’s New Indie Cinema Eclipse Opens With A24 Films and Handmade Choc-Tops

Collingwood’s new 64-seat single-screen cinema Eclipse opens tomorrow. There’ll be daily sessions from late morning to late evening, starting tomorrow at 11am with a screening of Miguel Gomes’s 2024 feature Grand Tour.

The cinema is the work of Mark Walker, a co-founder of Geelong’s Pivotonian Cinema, who launched a crowdfunding campaign for the theatre in July and raised over $42,800 via Pozible, well above his $25,000 goal.

In its first week, Eclipse will also screen A24’s Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson comedy Friendship; Les Blank’s 1982 documentary Burden of Dreams, which follows filmmaker Werner Herzog as he makes his masterpiece, Fitzcarraldo; and Canadian comedy-drama Universal Language. A24’s Ari Aster film Eddington shows from Thursday September 4.

There’ll also be Almodovar Wednesdays, spotlighting Walker’s favourite director, Pedro Almodovar (The Room Next Door, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown).

But most importantly, Eclipse will have a well-stocked candy bar with popcorn, house-made choc-tops and a bar stocked with Stomping Ground beers, gluten-free beers and vegan ice-cream sandwiches.

Eclipse Cinema opens at 32 Wellington Street, Collingwood on Thursday August 28. Tickets are available here.