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 MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
Robert Altman (1971) 121 mins – MA 15+
A brothel entrepreneur (Warren Beatty) joins forces with an opium-addicted madam (Julie Christie, in a wonderfully modulated performance). Altman’s sleety folk Western is one of his most affecting and sadly humanistic films. Loosely based on Edmund Naughton’s novel, Altman’s moody masterpiece is an extraordinarily atmospheric and intemperate portrait of frontier life, the rise of modern capitalism and the “beautiful losers” who populate his greatest work. Hauntingly scored with songs by Leonard Cohen, it also features Shelley Duvall, Michael Murphy and Keith Carradine. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond pre-flashed the film stock to create the evocative, de-saturated images; Pauline Kael called it a “beautiful pipe dream of a movie”.
4K DCP.
CTEQ ANNOTATION
Just Some Jesus Looking for a Manger: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
by Adrian Danks
9:15pm THE GO-BETWEEN
Joseph Losey (1971) 116 mins – M
Christie plays a romantic young aristocrat in this exquisitely judged English pastoral drama set at the end of the Victorian era (where the past is indeed a “foreign country”). Seemingly resigned to the overwhelming influence her social class will have on her future, she confides in a schoolboy who visits for the summer holidays. In L. P. Hartley’s novel, the boy’s narration as an old man frames the story, but Harold Pinter’s brilliant adaptation also uses a flashforward technique to undercut the tale’s nostalgia. Winner of the 1971 Cannes Palme d’Or, its wonderful cast also includes Alan Bates, Edward Fox, Michael Redgrave and Margaret Leighton. Music by Michel Legrand.
4K DCP.
CTEQ ANNOTATION
The Go-Between
by Gabrielle O’Brien
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 and ACMI
Curated by Michael Koller, Adrian Danks, Eloise Ross, Cerise Howard and Andréas Giannopoulos for the Melbourne Cinémathèque
Music Synchronisation: Michael Koller
State Government support by VicScreen.
Supported by the City of Melbourne Annual Arts Grants Program.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.
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The Melbourne Cinémathèque receives support from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.