Dedicated to screening rare & significant films in their original format.
Dedicated to screening rare & significant films in their original format.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run film society.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque is a membership-based film society based in Melbourne, Australia.
We hold screenings at ACMI, Fed Square every Wednesday night for most of the year.
Admission is by membership, which can be obtained on a short-term or yearly basis.
We are a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation.
7:00pm AMOUR
Michael Haneke (2012) 122 mins – M
Haneke brings his characteristically unflinching precision and restraint to this tale of an elderly married couple confronted with pain and illness in the final chapter of their lives together. Like many of the director’s films, the title has a harrowing irony, but also draws from the sublime grace, shared intimacy and emotional richness of the extraordinary lead performances by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. Both gentle and brutally honest, compassionate and unsentimental, this won both the Palme d’Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. With Isabelle Huppert.
CTEQ ANNOTATION
The Cruelty of Time: Amour
by Alex Williams
9:15pm LEMMINGS TALE I: ARCADIA
Michael Haneke (1979) 113 mins – Unclassified 15+
The first instalment of Haneke’s landmark two-episode drama examines the director’s own generation of Germans who came of age after World War II, depicting the fraught existential gap that developed between this group of teenagers and their parents in the 1950s. This tense Bergmanesque drama was formative in developing the themes that Haneke would go on to explore throughout his filmography and is now generally regarded as one of the most significant works of his early career.
CTEQ ANNOTATION
Lemmings: Tale 1: Arcadia
by John Hill
The Melbourne Cinémathèque started out as the Melbourne University Film Society (MUFS) in 1948 and changed its name to Cinémathèque in 1984.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque aims to present films in the medium they were created and as closely as possible to screen films the way they would have originally screened (i.e. big screen, celluloid prints, not video or DVD).
Programmes include a diverse selection of classic and contemporary films showcasing director retrospectives, special guest appearances and thematic series including archival material and new or restored prints.
We have on occasion hosted numerous seminars featuring renowned film scholars such as David Bordwell, Adrian Martin and Ian Christie. We are also dedicated to providing new annotations on the films we screen via the CTEQ annotations, hosted as a part of the quarterly online film journal Senses of Cinema.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque is self-administered and membership-driven relying on support from individuals, foundations, corporations and government funding to maintain its high standard of excellence. If you would like to be involved, or to offer donations or sponsorship, please contact us.
Presented by The Melbourne Cinémathèque and ACMI
Curated by Michael Koller, Adrian Danks, Eloise Ross, Cerise Howard and Andréas Giannopoulos for the Melbourne Cinémathèque
Music Synchronisation: Michael Koller
State Government support by VicScreen.
Supported by the City of Melbourne Annual Arts Grants Program.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.
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State Government support by VicScreen.
Supported by the City of Melbourne Annual Arts Grants Program.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.