Melbourne Cinémathèque

Dedicated to screening rare and significant films from the history of international cinema.

Entry to sessions is by membership only:
Annual membership > Full $105 Concession $90
Mini membership (4 consecutive weeks) > Full $23 Concession $18
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Curated by the Melbourne Cinémathèque
http://www.melbournecinematheque.org/

May be subject to variation. Additional charges apply to some events. All films are unclassified 18+ unless otherwise indicated. Membership may not guarantee admission. Presented by The Melbourne Cinémathèque and ACMI.

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The Sweet Life: The World of Federico Fellini

Roma

This charming and visually breathtaking film is a cinematic valentine to the "history" of Rome.


Nights of Cabiria

A streetwalker down on her luck is the focus of the last of Fellini's neo-realist tinged works.


Documentary: Varda & McElwee

Daguerréotypes

Varda's deeply humanistic social documentary records a group of Parisians facing urban change.


Bright Leaves

Explores the relationship between the tobacco industry and the director's fraught family history.


Figuring Landscapes: Documentary & Experimental

Figuring Landscapes: Engagement

This program explores the political, cultural and representational engagement with place.


Figuring Landscapes: Encounter

This program explores landscape as an encounter with specific places, through land, water and air.


Figuring Landscapes: Surroundings

This program explores the ambience of place, from the broad horizon to the closely observed.


Figuring Landscapes: Enactment

This program explores the dynamic between human habitation and the landscape.


Figuring Landscapes: Anti-Terrain

This program of short films explores our relationship to the landscape.


Stones in the Bush

This program features two experimental documentaries made in the early 1970s.


Soviet Silent Cinema

Man with a Movie Camera

Vertov's most iconic film is a joyous celluloid poem using all the techniques of experimental film.


Aelita

Based on a novel by Alexei Tolstoy, this futuristic film is a significant work of Soviet cinema.


The Universe of Jacques Demy

Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Jacques Demy's perennial, bittersweet, all-singing love story won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1964.


Le baie des anges

Jeanne Moreau stars as an ageing Parisian gambler in Jacques Demy's dazzling second feature.


Les demoiselles de Rochefort

Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac light up the town of Rochefort with their romantic musings.


Une chambre en ville

A striking worker with a pregnant girlfriend falls in love with a callgirl.


Lola

Demy's first feature stars Anouk Aimée as a cabaret artist dreaming of the return of her first love.


Jacquot de Nantes

Varda's moving tribute to her late husband Jacques Demy is an eloquently joyous valediction.


The Living Cinema of Akira Kurosawa

Scandal

This key early Kurosawa work is an expository critique of the rise of the tabloid press.


The Hidden Fortress

This seminal film by Kurosawa is renowned for its influence on George Lucas' Star Wars series.


Rashômon

In Kurosawa's Oscar-winning classic, a suspect, a victim and two witnesses recount a horrible crime.


No Regrets for Our Youth

Kurosawa's first film after WWII explores the unrest of a generation who survived the horror of war.


High and Low

An honest, wealthy industrialist is held to ransom over the kidnapping of his chauffeur's child.


The Most Beautiful

Rarely seen, Kurosawa's second feature offers an insight into the director's artistic development.


 
 
 
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