ABOUT
"To show is to preserve"
- Henri Langlois, Founder of the Cinémathèque Français
- L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat (Lumiere brothers, France 1895)
We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to importing and screening significant films from the history of international cinema. We have hosted numerous seminars featuring renowned film scholars such as David Bordwell and Ian Christie. Each year we put together retrospectives spanning several weeks spotlighting particular cinematic movements, periods, actors and auteurs.
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.
Curated by The Melbourne Cinémathèque:
Michael Koller, Michelle Carey & Adrian Danks with assistance from Dylan Rainforth, Matthew Clayfield & Louise Sheedy.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2008:
The Melbourne Cinémathèque is grateful to:Sirena Tuna, The National Film & Sound Archive & its National Film & Video Lending Service, ACMI Collections, The French Embassy Cultural Services, BFI Distribution, BFI Archive, MGM Studios, Universal Pictures, the Paramount Pictures Archives, Warners US, Filmmuseum Berlin, Transit Film, Nigel Buesst, Tamasa Distribution, Gaumont, Australian Institute of Polish Affairs, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Potential Films, Level Four Films, Hollywood Classics, MK2, Consulate General de France, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, Cathay Film, Ricardo Matos Cabo, Pedro Costa, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Instituto de Cinema e Audiovisual - Portugal, Instituto Cames Portugal, Palladium A/S, Cineteca Bologna, Zipporah Films, the Danish Film Institute, UCLA Film & TV Archives, Filmexport Prague, StudioCanal, Film Victoria, The Australian Film Commission, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Present Company, Senses of Cinema, the Library of Congress, Polish National Film Archive, Narodni Filmovy Archiv, Czech Republic Embassy, Péter Forgács, Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, DeMille Office.
HISTORY:
October 2006 was the 58th anniversary of the first committee meeting of The Melbourne University Film Society (MUFS).
In March of 1957 MUFS held its first screening at the University of Melbourne's Union Theatre.
In the '50s and '60s the Melbourne University Film Society helped to pioneer repertory and cultural film exhibition in Melbourne. It was a joint founder of both the Melbourne Film Festival and the Australian Film Institute. Its publications and research groups are central to the beginnings of Cinema Studies in Australia, whilst its film production activities gave the first taste of filmaking to many who would go on to contribute to the revival of feature film production in the early '70s.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque's establishment in 1984 directly continued from MUFS' on and off-campus activities and its tradition as exhibitor and participant in Australia's screen culture.
Whether you're a dedicated cinephile or an occasional film buff, Cinémathèque membership provides access to rare and imported prints and the opportunity to revel in a passion for truly great cinema.
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