THE MERCURY CINEMA

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are run by the Media Resource Centre to enhance screen culture and to give screening opportunities to emerging South Australian film, video and digital media artists.

Cinemas are also available for hire. For more information CLICK HERE.

CONTACT
Operations Manager, Jeremy Chance e-mail

Exhibition Manager, Toby Bramwell e-mail
Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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TICKET SALES

Call 8410 0979 9-5:30 Mon to Fri with you credit Card handy.
Call into the MRC 13 Morphett St Adelaide (behind the Mercury) 8-5:30 Mon-Fri
Buy tickets at the box office from one hour prior to the advertised screening time.

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MERCURY for hire

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are available for hire. We offer highly competitive rates for your screening, conference, lecture or party. We can screen just about anything from 35mm CinemaScope to your Powerpoint or web based presentation. AND we can look after your catering and liquor requirements with the minimum of fuss!

Ealing:
A very British Studio

8 – 15 April

Officially the oldest working film studio in the world, Ealing deliberately set out to create a new mythos of Britain in their most popular films. Decent, virtuous middle class values mingled with a strong individualism and ‘small is beautiful’ ethos, but never forgetting that eccentricities are what makes them British.

THE LADYKILLERS || THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS

7:30pm Thursday 8 April

The ladykillers (PG)

Dir: Alexander Mackendrick
1955 UK 94mins 35mm
A gang planning a series of robberies rent a house from sweet old Mrs. Wilberforce while posing as an amateur string quartet. When she realises what they’re really up to and threatens to report them to the police the gang decide to knock her off but run into one problem after another, coming undone in a series of double crosses in this pitch black comedy. Stars Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker and Herbert Lom.

Listed in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Monday 12 April

the Man in the white suit (pG)

Dir: Alexander Mackendrick
UK 1951 85mins 16mm
Unassuming chemist Sidney Stratton invents a gleaming white suit that never wrinkles, never wears out and never gets dirty, but instead of a hero’s reception he becomes the most hated man in Britain when the mill owners and workers both realize that this miracle fabric will destroy their industry. Naiively defiant, Sidney runs through the streets pursued by an angry mob as this subversively satirical comedy heads toward a nightmarish climax. Stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker and Joan Greenwood. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.
Curator’s special recommendation.

7:30pm Thursday 15 April

Kind HEarts and Coronets(PG)

Dir: Robert Hamer
UK 1949 106mins 16mm
Wallowing in the middle classes Louis Mazzini proceeds to kill off the complete aristocratic D'Ascoyne lineage (all played by Guinness in multiple roles), ostensibly to claim the dukedom, but with a deeper motive - revenge. Louis’ wickedly elegant scheme is successful until he is charged with a murder he didn’t commit! This black comedy maintains a brilliant cynicism throughout while restrained sensuality simmers under the surface. Stars Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.