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.
Contact:
Cinema Manager, Mark Pogorelec email
Operations Manager, Jeremy Chance email
ph. 08 8410 0979
The Cinemas are also available for hire.
The Cinemas are also available for hire.
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Evil Dead / Army of Darkness || Spiderman || Cronos || Pan's Labyrinth || El Mariachi || Sin City || Trasharama-Á-Go-Go
7:30 FRIDAY 13 JULY
EVIL DEAD / ARMY OF DARKNESS
Evil Dead Dir: Sam Raimi US 1985 35mm (R18+)
Army of Darkness Dir: Sam Raimi US 1992 35mm (M)
Few American directors would dare to show as much over-the-top glee in their chosen craft as Sam Raimi does in Army of Darkness. Washington Post Richard Harrington
7:30 FRIDAY 27 JULY
SPIDERMAN
Dir: Sam Raimi US 2002 35mm (M15+)
A stand-out amongst comics on the screen.
Maguire and Dunst keep Spider-Man on a high with their sweet-sexy yearning, spinning a web of dazzle and delicacy that might just restore the good name of movie escapism. Rolling Stone Peter Travers
7:30 FRIDAY 10 AUGUST
CRONOS
Dir: Guillermo del Toro 1993 35mm (M)
Del Toro’s breakthrough first feature - dark horror. International Critics Week prize at Cannes.
To what lengths would you go to achieve immortality, and once you had it, would you ever decide to renounce it and simply die?
Cronos is a thoughtful, intelligent film, and as a horror movie (which is, I think, its main mission in life) it's genuinely disquieting. Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
An enormously enjoyable gothic yarn from Mexico, transfuses the genre with wry grotesquerie, but retains respect for the old, classic films. Washington Post Desson Thomson
Like most of Del Toro's films, it tends to be way overrated by desperate cultists. Luke Y. Thompson New Times
7:30 FRIDAY 24 AUGUST
PAN’S LABYRINTH
Dir + writer: Guillermo del Toro 2006 Mex/Spain/USA 120mins 35mm (MA)
A gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain.
Received a total of 6 Academy Award nominations. Nominated, Golden Palm, 2006 Cannes Film Festival; Nominated Best Cinematography and Best Feature, 2007 Independent Spirit Awards. Original title "El Laberinto del Fauno."
The result of the intricate interplay is a fairy tale for adults that is violent, sometimes shocking, yet utterly engrossing. And eerily instructive; it deepens our emotional understanding of fascism, and of rigid ideology's dire consequences. Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
This intense film, a mix of horror, fantasy, and history that convinces on all those levels and mixes them up with dizzying brio, is a searing cinematic experience, a beautiful, terrifying vision from writer-director Guillermo del Toro. Premiere Glenn Kenny
This is a true fairy tale, and one of the finest fantasy pictures ever made. Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
7:30 FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
El Mariachi
Robert Rodriguez 1992 Mexico/USA 81mins 35mm (M)
Starring Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez, and Ramiro Gómez
The epitome of great low budget filmmaking - Action gun-slinging comedy.
Two men enter a town. Each wear black. Each carry a guitar case. One is a gangster, the other is a musician. Their paths cross ...
Genre referential, good fun all around.
Won the Audience Award at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival
7:30 FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
Sin City
Dir: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez US 2005 124mins (MA15+)
Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Clarke Duncan, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Michael Madsen, Jaime King, and Brittany Murphy
Frank Miller’s twisted tale brought to the screen with panache and excitement.
This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Two hours and six minutes has never seemed so much like two and six-tenths seconds. It's pure pulp metafiction. Washington Post Stephen Hunter
7:30 Friday 5 OCTOBER
TRASHARAMA-A-GO-GO
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