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.
6:30pm L’AMOUR FOU
Jacques Rivette (1969) 252 mins – Unclassified 15+
Finally rescued from oblivion by a meticulous digital restoration using an array of sources (the original 35mm materials for the four-hour cut were lost in a fire in 1973), this is one of cinema’s legendary “lost films”, the missing link in Rivette’s filmography between his first two feature-length works (Paris nous appartient and La religieuse) and the sprawling epics he was to become (in)famous for. Charting the breakdown of the relationship of a couple played by Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, alongside the filming of the production of a play (Racine’s Andromaque) within the film, Rivette masterfully intersects theatre, TV and cinema in an epic meditation on the relationship between art and life, highlighting and celebrating the resilience of cinema itself.
Preceded by Les photos d’Alix Jean Eustache (1982) 18 mins – Unclassified 15+. This César Award-winning short fiction – featuring Eustache’s son, Boris, and Canadian photographer Alix Cléo Roubuad – is a playful deconstruction of the powers of photography and all forms of image-making.
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 with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Curated by Michael Koller, Adrian Danks, Eloise Ross, Cerise Howard and Andréas Giannopoulos for the Melbourne Cinémathèque
Subtitling Logistics: Lorenzo Rosa
Music Synchronisation: Michael Koller
Supported by VicScreen & RMIT University.
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Supported by VicScreen, RMIT University & The City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.