LATEST NEWS

04/06/08 - CATHAY SEASON: June 4 programme change Sister Long Legs will now be replaced by Our Dream Car.

11/05/08 - ANDRZEJ WAJDA: "Dear Friends of Polish Cinema"

A message from Andrzej Wajda regarding our selection of his films has been added, with his permission, to the relevant special seasons page. View it here.

28/02/07 - The Melbourne Cinémathèque will recommence its weekly screenings from Wednesday, February 13 2008.

Calendars are now available from the usual pick-up spots, as well as from ACMI.

Alternatively you can download a low-res PDF from here (click on the images):

Calender - Page 1 (1,638kb):

Calendar Page 2 (1,238kb):

NEXT SCREENING:

July 9 - Special Season: The Passion of Carl Dreyer

7.00pm - The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Dreyer (1927) 82 mins

This landmark work, conceived from the actual trial manuscripts, is driven by Rudolph Maté’s starkly illuminated images & Dreyer’s meticulous attention to the brutal & experiential dimension’s of Joan’s plight, evoking from the singular Maria Falconetti the cinema’s most serene & agonised performance.

---

8.30pm -Vampyr

Carl Dreyer (1932) 70 mins

Dreyer’s memorable, unofficial retelling of the Bram Stoker classic is marked by a concern for the oneiric & the interplay of light & shadow.

---

8.30pm -Once Upon a Time

Carl Dreyer (1932) 70 mins

While approximately half of its original footage has been lost, Dreyer’s adaptation of Holger Drachmann’s popular play remains an engaging early work. Thought lost until 1964, when fragments of celluloid were discovered in a long-forgotten vault, the surviving footage is supported by stills & intertitles, which help to make up the complete narrative.

SUPPORTED BY: