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!

OZPLOITATION: AUSTRALIA'S WILD FRONTIER

16 July – 27 July

In the early Seventies, several home grown comedies found their way onto Australian screens, appalling the critics with their vulgarity and scoring a major hit with the public. Forming the genesis of the Australian New Wave, which saw an influx of fresh filmmaking talent, by the mid-Eighties countless films with a unique Aussie perspective had gone into production and exported around the world. Many of these films brought a new respectability to Australian culture, but it’s the sometimes forgotten genre classics, packed full of gratuitous nudity, shocking gore and awesome stunts, that have came to be affectionately known as Ozploitation.

NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD || ROAD GAMES
RAZORBACK || TURKEY SHOOT

7:30pm Thursday 16 July

NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (M)

Dir: Mark Hartley Australia 2008 103mins 35mm
Packed full of outrageous anecdotes, tips on maverick filmmaking and a genuine, infectious love of the movies themselves, this fast moving journey through a forgotten cinematic era of Australian genre cinema is unashamedly packed full of pubes, boobs, tubes... and a bit of kung fu. Features interviews with Quentin Tarantino, Phillip Adams, Richard Franklin, Antony I. Ginnane, Barry Humphries, George Miller, Philippe Mora, Russell Mulcahy, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Grant Page and a host of local and imported actors.

7:30pm Monday 20 July

ROAD GAMES (M)

Dir: Richard Franklin Australia 1981 101mins 35mm
A lone trucker, with a pet Dingo and a payload of frozen meat, plays harmless mental games with himself to keep his sanity on a long haul trip across the Nullabor Plain. Picking up a free-spirited hitch-hiker to keep him company along the way, he begins to suspect that the driver of a green van might be the serial killer he has heard about on the radio. A very likeable reworking of Davis Hitchcock’s Rear Window, or rather, rear view window. Stars Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis and super-stuntman Grant Page. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.

7:30pm Thursday 23 July

RAZORBACK (M)

Dir: Russell Mulcahy Australia 1984 95mins 35mm
A monstrous wild pig terrorizes the Australian outback, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. One man vows revenge for taking his infant grandson, another arrives in search of his missing wife, finding that what they’re both looking for is connected to a pair of feral ‘roo shooters and a giant pet food factory. Looking at times like a Countdown film clip, this stylish horror film moulded a visual aesthetic for the rest of the Eighties. Stars Judy Morris, John Howard, Davis Argue and Chris Heywood. Print courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive.

7:30pm Monday 27 July

TURKEY SHOOT (R18+) IMPORTED PRINT
WITH BONUS FILM:
DRIVE IN BLUES

Dir: Brian Trenchard-Smith Australia 1982 93mins 35mm
As ordered society begins to collapse, dissidents are sent to a brutal concentration camp for re-education. Determined to escape, several prisoners agree to take part in a life and death game of survival where they are hunted down for sport. Among the most notorious films made at the time, this ultra exploitative variation on The Most Dangerous Game was produced by the godfather of Ozploitaion Antony I. Ginnane. Stars Steve Railsback, Michael Craig, Olivia Hussey, Lynda Stoner and Roger Ward.

Preceded by documentary short Drive In Blues (1986).