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!

SKEWED ROMANCE:
THE SCREWBALL COMEDIES OF CARY GRANT

2 – 9 November

Debonair leading man Cary Grant (1904-1986) possessed all the attributes Hollywood desired. Handsome, virile, charismatic and charming, his screen persona emerged through as number of comedies that combined slapstick with fast-paced repartee worked into a plot that usually involved an unlikely courtship or reconciliation between antagonistic lovers, a style that came to be known as screwball.

BRINGING UP BABY || THE AWFUL TRUTH
HIS GIRL FRIDAY

7:30pm Monday 2 November

BRINGING UP BABY (G)

Dir: Howard Hawks
US 1938 102mins 16mm
In this sophisticated screwball comedy, bumbling palaeontologist David Huxley’s plan to marry his straight-laced fiancée is turned on its head following a chance meeting with eccentric heiress Susan Vance and her pet leopard named Baby. Years ahead of its time in its reversal of gender roles, this box office flop cost Hawks his job at RKO but is now praised as a witty, sharp and hilarious Hollywood classic. Stars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.

Listed in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Thursday 5 November

the awful truth (G)

Dir: Leo McCarey
US 1937 91mins 16mm
The battle of the sexes is a battle between equals in this screwball comedy of miscommunication, unfortunate situation, divorce and reconciliation between a couple clearly too smart for their own desires. Loosely structured, largely improvised and combining slapstick with romanticism, the love celebrated here is difficult and anarchic rather than secure and predictable, and yet so much more interesting as both leads make fools of themselves in its name. Stars Cary Grant, Irene Dunne and Ralph Bellamy. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.

Winner Oscar Best Director 1938
Listed in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Monday 9 November

HIS GIRL FRIDAY (PG)

Dir: Howard Hawks
US 1940 92mins 16mm
Walter Burns, the hard-boiled editor of a daily paper, attempts to sabotage his ex-wife Hildegard’s plans to remarry and settle down to the quiet life. Once his star reporter, Walter entices the reluctant Hildy into covering one last story on the upcoming execution of a convicted murderer, while distracting her fiancée by getting him repeatedly arrested on trumped-up charges. This highpoint of screwball comedy is characterised by its oft-imitated rapid-fire dialogue. Stars Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.