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!

BERNARD HERRMANN:
UNSETTLING THE SCORE

29March – 5 April

Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) One of Hollywood’s iconic composers, Herrmann insisted on creative control over his work and in exchange delivered dozens of memorable scores. His scores blend unusual instrumentation with short bursts of musical motifs. Thirty-five years after his death his musical legacy will still leave you gasping.

CITIZEN KANE || VERTIGO
TAXI DRIVER

7:30pm Monday 29 March

Citizen Kane (PG)

Dir: Orson Welles
1941 US 119mins 35mm
Regularly touted as the greatest film ever made, and with good reason, this apparently simple story of a faceless journalist investigating the life and legacy of the enigmatic Charles Foster Kane (infamously based on William Randolph Hearst) and the mystery of ‘Rosebud’, his final word, becomes a tour de force. Welles’ debut feature remains a stunning synthesis of writing, acting, scoring, photography and editing where technique never overshadows the human tragedy unfolding on the screen.

Listed in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Thursday 1 April

Vertigo (PG)

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
1958 US 128mins 35mm
Retired from the San Francisco police force following a traumatic fatal incident, acrophobic detective John “Scottie” Ferguson is hired by an acquaintance to investigate the peculiar activities of his wife and becomes dangerously infatuated with her. Among the darkest pictures from the famed auteur, Hitchcock’s recurring themes of desire, memory, obsession, neurosis and psychosis come to the fore. Herrmann’s spectacularly unsettling score wonderfully articulates Scottie’s spiralling descent into obsession and desire. Stars James Stewart and Kim Novak.

Listed in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Monday 5 April

Taxi Driver (R18+)

Dir: Martin Scorsese
1976 US 113mins 35mm
Still controversial today, Scorsese’s first collaboration with screenwriter Paul Schrader is a brooding portrait of urban isolation as maladjusted loner Travis Bickle drives a taxi through the sleaziest parts of NYC, vowing to “wash all this scum off the streets” and teetering on the brink of violence. Herrmann’s final score was recorded the day before he died, his memorable epitaph capturing the sullen underbelly of a decaying city. Stars Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel and Peter Boyle. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.

Winner Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival 1976
Listed in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die