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!

FRANÇOIS truffaUt:
child of the cinema

28 April – 5 May2008

With his deeply humanist vision, François Truffaut (1932-1984) remains one of the most important and fondly remembered filmmakers. He fell in love with cinema at the age of eight, becoming a regular at Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque Français in his adolescence, by his early twenties he was writing for the upstart film journal Les Cahiers du cinéma alongside the future innovators of the French New Wave. This season of imported 35mm prints demonstrate the extraordinary range of Truffaut's lyrical cinema.

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Day For Night || Mississippi Mermaid || Les Deux Anglaises

7:30pm Monday 28 April

DAY FOR NIGHT (PG)

Dir: François Truffaut France/Italy 1973 115min 35mm
This film-within-a-film is a richly textured homage to the everyday joys, thrills, chaos and torments of filmmaking. Layers abound in this autobiographical epistle with Truffaut himself playing the director of the internal film’s torrid melodrama. Seen by many as an excellent return to form and widely praised as one of the best films ever made about the movies. Stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Valentina Cortese & Jacqueline Bisset.

Winner Oscar Best Foreign Language Film 1975
Winner BAFTA Best Film, Best Director & Best Supporting Actress (Cortese) 1974
Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

7:30pm Thursday 1 May

MISSISSIPPI MERMAID (M)

Dir: François TruffautFrance 1969 123mins 35mm
A wealthy tobacco planter finds that his mail-order bride is much more of a handful than he had bargained for. Mixing noir with outlandish romantic melodrama, this strange fairytale for adults creates a complex mélange of guilt, obsession and l’amour fou, replete with copious cinematic references. Stars Jean-Paul Belmondo & Catherine Deneuve.

7:30pm Monday 5 May

LES DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT (18+)

Dir: François Truffaut France 1971 124mins 35mm
Set at the turn of the 20th century, two English girls become smitten with a young Frenchman in this masterful tale about love. This restored full-length version utilises the restricted palette of early two-tone Technicolor, producing the most eloquent of frissons in which the sense of a vanishing world can be seen etched on a lover’s face. Stars Jean-Pierre Léaud.