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.

TICKET SALES

To purchase tickets in advance, call 8410 0979 between 9:30 - 5:00 Monday to Friday with your credit card handy.
OR Call into the MRC at
13 Morphett St Adelaide (behind the Mercury) between 9:30 -5:00 Monday to Friday

You can purchase movie tickets at the Mercury Cinema box-office half an hour prior to the advertised screening time.

This webpage is a work in progress - comments?

CONTACT
Venue & Events Manager, P.J. Murton e-mail  

Exhibition Manager, Toby Bramwell e-mail
Ph. (08) 8410 0979


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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!

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SCREENINGS CINEMATHEQUE CINEMA HIRE ARCHIVE ABOUT US MRC

SPECIAL EVENT HONG KONG & CHINESE CINEMA

Tickets $12/$10

ACCIDENT || LAUGHING GOR: TURNING POINT
THE FOUNDING OF A REPUBLIC || POKER KING

7:30pm Wednesday 21 October | 7:30pm Sunday 25 October
7:30pm Wednesday 28 October (MERCURY)

Tickets Adult $12 & Concession $10

ACCIDENT (MA15+)

Dir: Pou-Soi Cheang
Hong Kong 2009 89min 35mm
Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles
The Brain is a professional hit man who kills his victims by trapping them in meticulously staged “accidents”, making them look like unfortunate mishaps. After an assignment goes wrong, the Brain becomes convinced that someone is plotting to terminate him and his team using his own methods. Already plagued by guilt and memories of his lost wife, he becomes increasingly paranoid, walking on the thin line between reality and delusion in this gripping new thriller produced by Johnny To. Stars Louis Koo and Richie Jen.

  


 

5:30pm Sunday 1 November | 5:30pm Sunday 8 November (MERCURY)

Tickets Adult $12 & Concession $10

LAUGHING GOR: TURNING POINT (M)

Dir: Herman Yau
Hong Kong 2009 88mins 35mm Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles
Before he joined the police force Laughing Gor had a dark background. As member of a triad gang he was persuaded by boss Chou to join the police force as an undercover operative and spy on police activities. While in the police academy, Laughing is recruited to be an undercover agent to spy on vice activities. Now a double undercover agent, with crucial information from two sides, Laughing becomes involved in an incident that disturbs the balance of his two identities and threatens to blow his cover. With both the triad and police force suspicious of his loyalty, Laughing does not know whom he can trust to save him. Based on a popular character from the Hong Kong TV drama series Emergency Unit. Stars Michael Tse and Anthony Wong.

  


 

7:30pm Sunday 1 November | 7:30pm Wednesday 4 November
7:30pm Sunday 8 November (MERCURY)

Tickets Adult $12 & Concession $10

the founding of a republic(M)

China 2009 135mins 35mm Mandarin with English and Chinese subtitles
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, this epic production documents the struggle between Mao Zedong’s revolutionary Communist Party and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Kuomintang for political control of China. Featuring an incredible cast of China and Hong Kong’s top movie stars including Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Andy Lau & Ziyi Zhang.

  


 

7:30pm Sunday 29 November | 7:30pm Sunday 13 December
7:30pm Wednesday 16 December (MERCURY)

Tickets Adult $12 & Concession $10

POKER KING (M)

Dir: Hing-Ka Chan & Janet Chun
Hong Kong 2009 35mm Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles
Texas hold 'Em Poker is kind of like a metaphor for life, we have no control over the hand that is dealt out to us. To overcome fate, one needs to rely on one's wisdom and the skill to escape the claws of defeat. In a comic turn of events, The World Tournament of Poker has entered its championship round and the remaining two players are determined to settle an old score with each other. Player number one Uno Cheuk runs the Casino owned by the deceased father of player number two Randy Cheung and both are determined to prove there are the rightful heirs to his gambling empire. Starring Ching Wan Lau, Josie Ho and Louis Koo.