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 A SIMPLE LIFE
Ann Hui (2011) 118 mins – Unclassified 15+
After a 12-year acting hiatus, Hui cast Deannie Ip to huge acclaim in this gentle story of two
people expressing their love for one another in quiet, expressive ways. Based on the life of the
film’s co-screenwriter Roger Lee, it gently and evocatively portrays the struggles of an ageing
maidservant (Ip) working for the only member of her employer family still living in China (Andy
Lau). It is beautifully shot by key Jia Zhangke collaborator, Yu Lik-Wai, and features satirical
cameos by a number of Hong Kong cinema veterans and legends including Sammo Hung,
Raymond Chow, Stanley Kwan and Tsui Hark.
DCP courtesy of Distribution Workshop (BVI) Ltd.
9:10pm OUR TIME WILL COME
Ann Hui (2017) 130 mins – M
Winner of Best Film and Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and sumptuously shot by Yu Lik-Wai, Hui’s low-key wartime epic follows a schoolteacher (Zhou Xun, in one of her richest performances) who finds herself almost casually recruited to join the Communist resistance to Japanese occupation. Eschewing the bombast typical of heroic histories, Hui foregrounds the ordinariness of her characters, handling even the action sequences with a matter-of-factness that undercuts the requisite mythologising. Featuring an evocative score by long-term Miyazaki collaborator, Joe Hisaishi. With Deannie Ip.
CTEQ ANNOTATION
Our Time Will Come
by Seán Cubitt
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.