To do: retro drugs, aging rock stars, love.

• Wednesday: The Melbourne Cinematheque is back in business this week and showing 1950s classics BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray, 1955) and SOME CAME RUNNING (Vincent Minnelli, 1958). [Melb Cinematheque]
• Thursday: Astor plays a great doco double bill – the Oscar-nominated MAN ON WIRE about crazy French people conducting a crazy illegal stunt and also PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE [Astor]
• Friday: THE PARTY with Peter Sellers plays the Rooftop. [Rooftop]
• Saturday: Astor plays the yellow-face minstrel show BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S and ROMAN HOLIDAY as a Valentine’s Day special. [Astor]
• Sunday: Nineties hip hop “classic” HOUSE PARTY plays Rooftop. [Rooftop]