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!

BEST WESTERN:
SHAPING A NATION'S MYTHOS THROUGH FILM

3 – 10 June

Cultures tell themselves who they are through their stories. For Americans the near simultaneous birth of cinema and ‘closing’ of the West meant they were able to look back on a defining period of their history with the very places and people intact. The frontier settings became a global genre, open to regular reinvention.

HIGH NOON || RIO BRAVE
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

7:30pm Thursday 3 June

High Noon (PG)

Dir: Fred Zinneman
US 1952 85mins 16mm
Marshall Will Kane is a man forsaken by his townspeople and hopelessly outnumbered after hearing news on his wedding day that a gang of outlaws are bound for town on the noon train seeking revenge. Playing out in real time Kane must decide if he will stay and protect the people that have abandoned him or leave town with his Quaker bride. Simple, powerful and unforgettable, this historic Western has lost none of its bite. Stars Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.

Winner Oscar Best Actor (Gary Cooper) 1953
Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Monday 7 June

Rio Bravo (PG)

Dir: Howard Hawks
US 1959 141mins 4K
In this classical western battling wits, courage and character, Rio Bravo’s town Sherriff John T. Chance must protect his keep, convicted gunslinger and murderer Joe Burdette, from his brother Nathan Burdette, who wants nothing more than to see Chance dead. Star Wayne and director Hawks conceived this positivist view of frontier America in direct response to High Noon’s pacifistic revisionist approach to the genre. Cited by John Carpenter as a major influence. Stars John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Angie Dickinson.

Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Thursday 10 June

ONce upon a time in the west (M)

Dir: Sergio Leone
Italy/US 1968 165mins Brand new 35mm print
A mysterious stranger who plays a haunting tune on his harmonica forms a fractious alliance with a grizzled desperado to protect the land of a beautiful widow from a cold hearted assassin working for the railroad in this sweeping, epic Spaghetti Western. Operatic in every way from the slow, deliberate movements of the protagonists to the pulsating score by Ennio Morricone, Leone manages to top the glorious excess of The Good the Bad and the Ugly in the best possible way. Stars Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinale.