The St Kilda Film Festival was well launched last night to starry skies and flitting lasered Air Asia signs on the facade of the Palais Dream Palace. This version was pretty well spot on.
Sitting right at the back of the gods in a packed three thousand seat venue was an experience which takes us back to the 1930’s. The cinema was a glowing bar somewhere out beyond our feet, with serried rows of heads stretching down into the great wedge of space.