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 KOREAN cinema

Tickets $12/$10

THIRST || MOTHER

 

7:30pm Friday 11 Decembber
7:30pm Saturday 12 December

ADELAIDE PREMIERE
THIRST (MA15+)

Dir: Chan-wook Park
South Korea 2009 133mins 35mm
Sang-hyeon is a priest who believes so deeply in the sanctity of life that he volunteers for a secret vaccine development project to help save others from a deadly virus. The virus kills all the participants and takes over Sang-hyeon’s body. The priest miraculously survives, becoming an symbol of healing for the sick and desperate, but the blood transfusion that saved his life has given him an unquenchable thirst for human blood along with new carnal desires. Sang-hyeon soon plunges into a world of sensual pleasures with the troubled wife of an old childhood friend, finding himself on intimate terms with the Seven Deadly Sins. This new film from the acclaimed director of Oldboy rewrites the book on vampires. Stars Kang-ho Song (The Good, the Bad and the Weird, The Host, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance).

  

 

7:30pm Thursday 28 Janaury
7:30pm Friday 29 Janaury

ADELAIDE PREMIERE
Mother (MA15+)

Dir: Joon-ho Bong
South Korea 2009 128mins 35mm
In his follow up to The Host, Korean director Boong Joon-Ho crafts a thriller in the classic tradition of Hitchcock, ratcheting up the unease all the way to it’s unexpected climax. When an intellectually challenged man is coerced into confessing to a murder he may not have committed, his devoted mother sets out to find the real killer. In a village of the petty and self-interested, nobody is as innocent as they seem. This darkly absurdist film beat out Thirst as South Korea’s official submission for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Check out the **** review by David & Margaret from At the Movies.