ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Melancholia

Two sisters deal with a cataclysmic event in very different ways in Lars Von Trier's homage to Solaris

27 May – 7 Jul 2018 135 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Shame

Human relationships are tested by extraordinary outside forces in Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece

26 May – 28 Jul 2018 103 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Insect

For his final film, Jan Švankmajer turns the camera on himself as he shoots a film based on a 1922 Czechoslovak play

26 May 2018 98 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+ people) $12

Celine and Julie Go Boating & There is No Such Thing as a Jellyfish

Just like Alice, the protagonists in both films take a trip down the proverbial rabbit hole – where they end up is anybody’s guess

26 May 2018 192 mins

Alice in the Cities & Underground

The modern city is a field for exploration in these two films

21 – 27 May 2018 110 mins

Little Fugitive & Wonderland USA

The curious wonderlands of Coney Island are navigated in these two independent New York productions

20 – 25 May 2018 77 mins

The Flower Thief & The Petrified Dog

The adult world seems like something of a foreign land in these two independent San Franciscan films about childlike wonder

26 May – 2 Jun 2018 70 mins

Desperately Seeking Susan & Maidenhead

Sisters are doin’ it for themselves in these two films made by and about women

24 – 27 May 2018 104 mins

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

The fascinating story of authors Hans and Margret Rey who reinvented themselves - and a beloved cultural icon - in '50s America

25 May-5 Jun 82 mins Full $14 Concession $11 Senior $8 Member $7

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun

12 May – 23 Jun 2018 98 mins Full $18 Kids $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 and Seniors $8

James and the Giant Peach

Based on the children's fantasy by Roald Dahl, this extraordinary story is given the unique Tim Burton treatment

13 May – 24 Jun 2018 80 mins Full $18 Kids $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 and Seniors $8

Stalking Tarkovsky

Discover the legacy of Andrei Tarkovsky, one of cinema's greatest directors

From 10 May

Alice Is Everywhere

Join us for a film season tracing the extraordinary legacy of Alice in Wonderland across the history of cinema

19 May – 2 Jun Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+ people) $12

The Wizard of Oz & Garden of Chromatic Disturbance

Explore cinematic wonderlands and the spectacle of colour in this MGM musical classic and Cantrills experimental short

19 – 28 May 2018 102 mins

A Place in the Sun

A working-class outsider becomes entangled with two women, one a factory worker, the other a beautiful socialite

30 May 2018 122 mins Admission by Melbourne Cinémathèque membership: $26 - $290

Red River

John Wayne and Montgomery Clift star in this classic Western reworking of Mutiny on the Bounty

30 May 2018 133 mins

Redoubtable (Godard Mon Amour)

New Wave iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel) is the unlikely romantic lead in the droll new comedy by Michel Hazanavicius

Opens 31 May 107 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Groups (10+) $12 Seniors $8

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders & Kusama's Self-Obliteration

Horror, surrealism and fairytale combine in this cult Czech New Wave feature and hallucinogenic Yayoi Kusama short

20 May – 1 Jun 2018 77 mins

Juliet of the Spirits & At Land

Inner worlds are explored in these tactile and multisensory films

19 May – 2 Jun 2018 137 mins

White Material

Isabelle Huppert stars as a coffee plantation owner clinging to her existence as civil war erupts around her

2 Jun – 10 Jul 2018 106 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Alice in Wonderland

Disney's 1951 animated adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic 'Alice' stories

7 Apr – 6 Oct 2018 75 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 and Seniors $8

L'Eclisse

Alain Delon and Monica Vitti star in Michelangelo Antonioni's drama about a doomed relationship

3 Jun – 24 Jul 2018 126 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Groups $12

Contempt (Le Mépris)

Michel Piccoli, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang star in Jean-Luc Godard's tender-caustic 1963 classic

3 – 10 Jun 2018 105 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Senior $8

Victoria & Abdul

Judi Dench reprises the role of Queen Victoria in the latest historical drama by Stephen Frears (Philomena, The Queen)

8-19 Jun 112 mins Full $14 Concession $11 Senior $8 Member $7

Cosi + Q&A

An exclusive in-conversation with writer Louis Nowra about his seminal Australian screenplay

9 Jun 2018 100 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12

The Color of Pomegranates

The life of one of Armenia's greatest poets is told through a series of tableaux

13 May – 25 Jun 2018 79 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Matilda

Danny DeVito's riotous film adaptation of Roald Dahl's tale about a misunderstood girl

19 May – 16 Jun 2018 93 mins Full $18 Kids $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 and Seniors $8

No Date, No Signature

Navid Mohammadzadeh lights up the screen like an emergency beacon in his Venice Film Festival award-winning turn as a father torn apart by the death of his son

29 Jun – 11 Jul 2018 104 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Groups $12 Seniors $8

Wednesday, May 9

A middle-class surgeon posts a newspaper advertisement offering a large sum of money to someone in need

1 – 8 Jul 2018 102 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Groups $12 Seniors $8

Diary of a Country Priest

A young priest's faith is tested when he's rejected by the community in his first parish

30 Jun – 29 Jul 2018 115 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Elementary

Rising French star Sara Forestier plays a devoted educator in Hélène Angel's contemporary French drama

22 Jun-3 Jul 105 mins Full $14 Concession $11 Senior $8 Member $7

Heat and Dust

Shashi Kapoor, Julie Christie and Greta Scacchi star in Merchant Ivory's alluring epic

8-24 Jul 130 mins Full $14 Concession $11 Senior $8 Member $7

Autobiography of a Princess

Madhur Jaffrey and James Mason appear together in Merchant Ivory's elegant two-hander

7 – 9 Jul 2018 60 mins Full $14 Concession $11 Senior $8 Member $7

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

A look at Jean-Michel's life pre-fame, and how the city, the times, the people and the movements around him formed the artist he became

7 Jul – 2 Aug 2018 78 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Melbourne Cinémathèque

Australia's largest and longest-running film society celebrating rare and significant works of international cinema

Every Wednesday 7pm Admission by Melbourne Cinémathèque membership: $26 - $290

Alice Is Everywhere

Join us for a film season tracing the extraordinary legacy of Alice in Wonderland across the history of cinema

19 May – 2 Jun Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+ people) $12

Matinees

Fine films for grown-up tastes

Family Films

Family friendly films from home and the globe, including kids' classics, animated masterpieces and insightful documentaries

Melbourne Filmoteca

Monthly screenings of the best in Latin American and Spanish film.

Feb - Dec 2018

Little Big Shots

Introducing young people to the world through cinema

6 - 11 Jun 2018 Full $18 Kids $14 ACMI Members $12 Groups (10+) $12 Seniors $8

Essential Kaurismäki: Selected by David Stratton

A retrospective featuring 10 of the finest films by one of cinema’s greatest directors

14 Jun - 1 Jul Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12

Melbourne International Animation Festival

Explore outstanding new and classic animation from Australia and around the world

14 – 23 Jun 2018 Full $19 Concession $16 ACMI Members $15 – multi-session passes are also available

Sara Driver: NYC

ACMI celebrates one of the leading filmmakers to emerge from the vibrant New York City art scene of the 1980s and '90s

7 Jul - 2 Aug 2018 Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Melbourne International Film Festival

Explore new worlds

2 - 19 Aug 2018

Melbourne Writers Festival

For everyone who reads

24 Aug - 2 Sep 2018

Korean Film Festival Melbourne

An embodiment of 'Hallyuwood' and Korean film culture in a showcase of the country's most innovative cinematic feats

6 – 13 Sep 2018

Environmental Film Festival Australia

A change in direction

11 - 18 Oct 2018

Iranian Film Festival Australia

An annual celebration of Iranian cinema, one of the world’s most exhilarating national cinemas

25 – 29 Oct 2018 various times

Japanese Film Festival

Whether it’s slice of life drama or absurdist manga comedy, we’ve got you covered

22 Nov - 2 Dec 2018