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!

TWO OF A KIND:
CHEMISTRY ON A SCREEN

19 – 26 April

There are special moments in films where two actors seem so perfect together it’s hard to imagine them ever being apart. Sometimes their professional talents complement each others, other times they’re even closer off screen than on, and sometimes they’re just the right actors for the right roles and all the stars have aligned.

PILLOW TALK || ADAM'S RIB
TOP HAT

7:30pm Monday 19 April

Pillow talk (G)

Dir: Michael Gordon
US 1959 105mins 35mm
Rock Hudson and Doris Day only made three films together but their on-screen pairing embodied the perfect post-war Hollywood couple. Self-reliant Jan Morrow and Broadway composer playboy Brad Allen bicker over their building’s shared telephone line, but once Brad lays eyes on his adversary he decides that must have her and creates a new persona with which to woo her. The path of true love may not run smoothly, and Hudson’s comic duplicity has tragic overtones, but it’s a very funny ride.

7:30pm Thursday 22 April

Adam's Rib (pG)

Dir: George Cukor
US 1949 97mins 16mm
When two married lawyers take opposing sides in a case, the result is a confused jury and an amused audience. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn may have kept their real life relationship under wraps but as Adam and Amanda Bonner there are plenty of sparks on screen. Lengthy takes capture hilarious verbal gymnastics as each strives for legal and personal dominance, taking the battle of the sexes further than it had ever gone before. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.

Listed in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Monday 26 April

Top Hat (G)

Dir: Mark Sandrich
US 1935 101mins 35mm
This is perhaps the definitive vehicle for the famed dance duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Jerry Travers, an American dancer in London, becomes instantly smitten with Dale Tremont and gives chase as only he can. Dale spends most of the movie thinking Jerry is a friend’s husband and the stage is set for classic screwball shenanigans and unforgettable musical numbers by the golden couple of Hollywood’s Golden Age.