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.

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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!

FREEZE FRAMES

Fri 5 June – Fri 19 June 2009

So you think it’s cold in Adelaide right now? This is your change to see some of the leading world cinema exported from the frozen north. Settle into our cozy heated cinema with a cup of hot coffee and catch a look at the best dramas, thrillers and stone faced comedies emanating from Scandinavia and its neighbours.

BLACK ICE || O'HORTEN || JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY
PRAGUE || YOU, THE LIVING

7:00pm Friday 5 June

adelaide PREMIERE
BLACK ICE (MA15+)

Dir: Petri Kotwica
Finland/Germany 2008 100mins 35mm
Afraid of losing her husband Leo to a younger woman, Saara makes friends with her love rival Tuuli using a false identity. A dangerous psychological game of life and death ensues as Saara’s self-assured exterior conceals a viper´s nest of jealousy. Unable to control the avalanche she has unleashed, Saara draws the players into a thundering inferno of revenge that threatens to leave them all permanently scarred.

9:00pm Friday 5 June & 7:00pm Wednesday 17 June

adelaide PREMIERE
O'HORTEN (PG)

Dir: Bent Hamer
Norway/Germany/France 2007 90mins 35mm
Odd Horten attempts to adapt to retirement after years of service as a train driver with its reassuringly structured routine. The moment the train leaves the station without O’Horten aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations. This hilarious deadpan comedy is filled with warmth and a deep affection for the eccentric characters that populate O’Horten’s daunting new world. A highlight of the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival.

7:00pm Wednesday 10 June & 9:00pm Friday 19 June

adelaide PREMIERE
JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY (MA15+)

Dir: Ole Bornedal
Denmark 2007 100mins 35mm
Jonas, weary of his mundane family life, inadvertently precipitates a car crash that sends Julia into a coma. When she awakes, Julia’s memory has vanished and Jonas is mistaken for mysterious new boyfriend Sebastian when he visits the hospital. Relishing the opportunity to create a brand new identity, a brand new life and an untrammeled existence full of promise, Jonas assumes Sebastian’s identity. But real life can’t be built on fantasies and one day the truth comes knocking at the door.

7:00pm Friday 12 June & 7:00pm Friday 19 June

adelaide PREMIERE
PRAGUE (MA15+)

Dir: Ole Christian Madsen
Denmark 2006 92mins Format?
Christoffer and Maja journey from Denmark to Prague in order to retrieve the body of Christoffer’s recently deceased father. Emotionally distant Christoffer grapples with unhappy memories of his father and childhood as the modern couple negotiate the historical city. Caught between anger, shame and the desperate urge to make things right, secrets emerge from Christoffer that erode the couple’s emotional state in this gripping drama. Stars Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, After the Wedding).

9:00pm Friday 12 June

you, the living (M)

Dir: Roy Andersson
Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark/Norway 2007 95mins 35mm
A film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved. Described as sitting somewhere between Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati and Ingmar Bergman, this tragicomic oddity eschews a conventional narrative, presenting a fluent succession of melancholy and poetic short sketches. This is pure cinematic magic, both inspiring and painful to watch.