Melbourne Cinémathèque
Dedicated to screening rare and significant films from the history of international cinema.
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Sternberg's greatest film is a pictorially brilliant homage to the imperious stardom and luminosity of Marlene Dietrich.
Sternberg created this masterpiece out of the seedy underside of the great metropolis.
Rosi's film follows a plot of government-sanctioned right-wing killing squads targeting a series of high-profile victims.
Rosi's gritty and atmospheric second feature is a tale mired in the increasingly borderless world of postwar Europe.
Rosi's docu-drama charts the meteoric rise and fall of a bandit who became a legend in Sicily after his violent death in 1950.
A tour-de-force of popular political cinema examining the corrupting influence of power, and featuring a stand-out cast.
A gritty World War I drama, based on Emilio Lussu's memoir of the Italian army's disastrous battles culminating in Caporetto.
Rosi's film of Bizet's opera presents a magnificently choreographed and stylised depiction of sexual attraction and violence.
Bresson's adaptation of a short story by Tolstoy is an unflinching presentation of the material nature of existence.
A woman (María Casares) revenges herself on her bored lover by arranging for him to marry a prostitute.
Cozarinsky's first-person documentary shows Cocteau recounting his artistic life in post-World War I Paris.
Bresson's pared-back film draws its force from the merciless close-ups of cinematographer Léonce-Henri Burel.
Bresson's achingly moving account of the last day in the life of a loveless, abused and humiliated 14-year-old peasant girl.
Bresson's massively influential tale of a pickpocket (Martin La Salle) who finds hard-won redemption through love.
Bresson's blunt and compassionate chronicle of the birth, life and death of a donkey is a Christian parable.
A young member of the French Resistance is sentenced to death but manages to escape prison, merely hours before his execution.
Meyers' powerful, quasi-documentary film follows the rehabilitation of an emotionally disturbed African-American boy from Harlem.
A documentary dissecting a year in the life of a young divorcee, made by a collective of directors and cinematographers.
Antonioni's definitive film is an exploration of alienation, ennui and the 'atomic age' starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti.
Jack Nicholson stars as a disillusioned journalist who decides to exchange identities with a dead colleague.
Hou's beautiful adaptation of a late 19th century novel set in the "flower houses" of Shanghai's European concession.
Wong's quixotic film is a mesmerising work that revisits the life of Chow Mo-wan and lovers from his past and future.
Together with his twin brother Mike, Kuchar was one of the key filmmakers of the New York camp underground of the '60s and '70s.
Honouring the late San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker, this program includes many of Belson's most famous works.
Robert Breer was a key figure of the postwar American avant-garde cinema.
An angel watching over the citizens of West Berlin is tempted by the flesh when he falls in love with a trapeze artist.
Wim Wenders' evocative and playful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 'Ripley's Game' is a suspense-filled cult film.
A collaborative portrait of the life of Elia Kazan shaped as a cine-letter from Scorsese to Kazan himself.
Kazan's intimate account of one immigrant's journey to America in the late 19th century is passionate and sometimes brutal.
Initially a critical failure, the film's stature has grown over time and it was added to the US National Film Registry in 2002.
Two teenage lovers are ripped apart by the repressive mentality of their 1920s Kansas town in a dramatic coming-of-age tale.
Kazan's seventh feature is a brooding theatrical paean to poetic heroism and ruin in the roughest part of New Orleans.
Starring James Dean in his first major role, Kazan's film helped define the young actor as the indelible "hero of adolescence".
