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!

EPIC CINEMA: THE BIG SCREEN EXPERIENCE

15 June – 22 June

Grand in their ambition, some films need to escape the confining dimensions of the television tube and be allowed to stretch out on a cinema screen. Among the oldest of film genres, epic cinema is storytelling on a large scale, spanning decades, continents and generations. Everything is bigger, the budget, the production values, the cast of characters and the conflicts. So is bigger necessarily better? This is a rare opportunity to find out.

GONE WITH THE WIND || LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
HEAVEN'S GATE

7:30pm Monday 15 June

GONE WITH THE WIND (G)

Dir: Victor Fleming US 1939 219mins 35mm
David O. Selznick’s production of this sweeping romance set in South during the American Civil War remains the biggest selling and most cherished of all Hollywood classics. With a sheltered upbringing on a plantation in Atlanta, Scarlett O’Hara loses everything when the Union Army takes control of the city. O’Hara survives the war, poverty and all manner of adversity as she attempts to piece her life back together but, unable to recognise or acknowledge the love she feels for Rhett Butler, true happiness remains elusive. Stars Clark Gable, Olivis de Havilland and Vivien Leigh.

Winner Best Picture Academy Awards 1940.
Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Thursday 18 June

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (PG)

Dir: David Lean UK 1962 228mins 35mm
Assigned to Arabia during the First World War, British officer T.E. Lawrence unites the warring Arab tribes and daringly leads them to overthrow the ruling Ottoman Empire. Scoring brilliant victories waged under extreme desert conditions, Lawrence also struggles with his personal identity and divided allegiance between his native Britain and newfound comrades. This heroic true-life adventure is widely considered among the greatest and most influential films ever made. Stars Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains and Alec Guinness.

Winner Best Picture Academy Awards 1963.
Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Monday 22 June

HEAVEN'S GATE (M)

Dir: Michael Cimino US 1980 225mins 35mm
Based on historical events surrounding the Johnson County War in 1892, a sheriff attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests while vying with a hired gun for the love of a woman. Perhaps better known for its spiralling budget and box-office failure, from which director Cimino never quite recovered, this fully restored version helped popularise the now common term “Director’s Cut” and reassert the film’s reputation as a flawed masterpiece. Still a cinematic talking point, judge for yourself. Stars Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Cotton, Brad Dourif, Mickey Rourke and Isabelle Huppert.