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Ticket Giveaway – The Hateful Eight 70mm @ The Astor Theatre, Melbourne

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The resurgence of the much loved 70mm format continues as Melbourne’s salubrious cultural icon The Astor Theatre is playing host to the highly anticipated special edition release of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. This special presentation, which kicks off from January 14, features a musical overture, intermission and over six minutes of additional footage that the general digital version won’t have. A creative decision from the autuer, The Hateful Eight has been designed to capture the cinema going experience as we would have seen it 40 years ago! To celebrate the release Palace Cinemas and The Lowdown Under are giving you the chance to win one of five double passes (Valued at over $50 each) to see Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in glorious 70mm at The Astor Theatre when it releases on January 14, 2016.

“The Hateful Eight is a parlour-room epic, an entire nation in a single room, a film steeped in its own filminess but at the same time vital, riveting and real. Only Tarantino can do this, and he’s done it again.” – Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph

“Armed with vicious humor and an intense story, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is as brutal in its insights into race relations and human nature as it is in its depiction of violence and the Wild West.“- Jim Vejvoda, IGN

“Tarantino seems determined to upend your every expectation.”- Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

“Composer Ennio Morricone’s seesawing score sometimes brings to mind Tarantino fave Sergio Leone, but the real ancestor here is John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing, another thriller percolating with close-quarters paranoia and Hawksian gab.”- Joshua Rothkop, Time Out


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then email “I Wanna Get Hateful @ The Astor!” with your name to info@thelowdownunder.com
(winners will be contacted by Palace Cinemas to redeem their prize. Please note The Astor Theatre is located on the Corner of Chapel Street and Dandenong Rd in St Kilda East, Melbourne, Victoria)

Entries Open: Now! (For Australian The Lowdown Under readers)

Entries Close: Sunday January 10, 2016!

Synopsis: Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy Domergue, race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren, a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix, a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob, who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

Written & Directed By: Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Death Proof, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Demian Bichir