Valhalla Cinema, Glebe (1937 → 2005)
Cult Film, Counterculture & the Inner-West That Vanished
The art-deco cinema on Glebe Point Road opened in 1937 as the Astor, but its second life is what burned itself into Sydney’s memory. Reborn in the late 1970s as the Valhalla New Cinema, it became the inner-west’s sanctuary for cult films, political cinema, midnight screenings, double-bills, student radicals, punks, weirdos, lecturers, Glebe misfits, and anyone allergic to multiplex polish.
Until it closed in 2005, Valhalla was more than a cinema — it was a cultural rite of passage.