SESSION: Saturday 30th September at 7:30pm
We are thrilled that Supernormal Canteen will be at The Astor to serve up an all-time classic dish. Re-imagining their signature dessert for the cinema. Their signature dessert, a peanut butter parfait with salted caramel and soft chocolate will be redeveloped into a choc-top type confection. A waffle cone, filled with creamy gooey parfait, doused in salted caramel & soft chocolate, and topped with roasted peanuts. This July, Andrew McConnell opened Supernormal Canteen in St Kilda. Emanating from the 2013/14 summer test-kitchen of the same name, Supernormal Canteen is the more casual and intimate iteration of its big-city sister, Supernormal in Flinders Lane. Canteen is Supernormal… but not as you know it. It’s a faster, louder & livelier ride, and later this month, for one night only, it’s hitting the stalls of the iconic Astor cinema. On Saturday September 30th The Astor will show a double feature from acclaimed director, Sofia Coppola. Kicking off at 7.30pm with The Beguiled, the film that won her the Best Director gong at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the evening concludes with a showing of the Academy award winning Lost in Translation. ‘We’re huge fans of Coppola and are dead excited to work with the Astor which is such an institution in St Kilda. As soon as we saw Lost in Translation on the programme, synapses started firing!’ - Tim Goegan, Head Chef.
(2017, dir. Sofia Coppola, w/ Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell) At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tension, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events. (IMDB) (2003, dir. Sofia Coppola, w/ Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Akiko Takeshita, Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe) Lost in Translation will start at approximately 9:30pm, and finish at approximately 11:18pm. Middle-aged American movie star Bob Harris is in Tokyo to film a personal endorsement Suntory whiskey ad solely for the Japanese market. He is past his movie star prime, but his name and image still have enough cachet for him to have gotten this lucrative $2 million job. He has an unsatisfying home life where his wife Lydia follows him wherever he goes - in the form of messages and faxes - for him to deal with the minutiae of their everyday lives, while she stays at home to look after their kids. Staying at the same upscale hotel is fellow American, twenty-something recent Yale Philosophy graduate Charlotte, her husband John, an entertainment still photographer, who is on assignment in Japan. As such, she is largely left to her own devices in the city, especially when his job takes him out of Tokyo. Both Bob and Charlotte are feeling lost by their current situations, which are not helped by the cultural barriers they feel in Tokyo, those cultural barriers extending far beyond just not knowing the language. After a few chance encounters in the hotel, they end up spending much of their time hanging out together, each helping the other deal with their feelings of loss in their current lives. The friendship that develops between the two, which is not always a bumpy-free one, may be just for this specific place and time, but it may also have long lasting implications. (IMDB)
The Beguiled
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Lost in Translation
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