Dedicated to screening rare & significant films in their original format
The Melbourne Cinémathèque is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run film society. We hold screenings at The Australia Centre for the Moving image every Wednesday night for most of the year. Admission is by membership, which can be obtained on a monthly or yearly basis.
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7.00 . PROPERTY IS NO LONGER A THEFT
Elio Petri (1973) 120 mins
Petri’s last entry in his “Trilogy of Neuroses” is a darkly comic tale of a bank teller (Flavio Bucci) with a literal allergy to money – and a figurative allergy to how it corrupts human souls.
The director merges Marxism with psychology, humanism with social commentary, and class-consciousness with sophistication. Just as money gives the teller a rash, so does it – and property, by extension – give society a warped sense of what matters. Petri offers no solutions: he merely draws attention to the insidious problem. Score by Ennio Morricone.
35mm print courtesy of Cinecittà Luce.
CTEQ Annotation:
‘Property is No Longer a Theft’ by Gino Moliterno.
9.10 . I GIORNI CONTATI
Elio Petri (1962) 93 mins
When ageing widower Cesare (Salvo Randone) witnesses the death of a stranger on the street, he is compelled to take his life in a new direction.
Although one of his least seen films, Petri’s second feature is still considered to be a worthy precursor to his subsequent career successes. Cesare’s return to his youthful dreams is translated to the ruminative wandering of the camera.
This masterful take on the hopelessness and dispiriting reality of capitalist society was co-written by Petri and Tonino Guerra.
CTEQ Annotation:
‘I giorni contati’ by Federico Passi.
35mm print courtesy of Cinecittà Luce.
(Posted on: April 13, 2013)
Please Note there will be a slight program change this Wednesday April 17, due to the addition of 2 short works (this time subtitled in English):
10.05 . APRIL 17
THE OLD PLACE
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville (1999) 49 mins.
This MOMA commission to examine the role of fine arts at the end of the 20th century is, according to Colin MacCabe, “the finest of all the Miéville/Godard essays”.
ORIGINS OF THE 21st CENTURY
Jean-Luc Godard (2000) 16 mins.
A thought-provoking montage of 20th century artefacts.
JE VOUS SALUE SARAJEVO
Jean-Luc Godard (1993) 2 mins.
A timely, tragic and poetic mediation on a single, devastating image from the Bosnian war