by Matt Saunders | Sep 18, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[IRAN] Mercury Cinema, Sat 17 Sep. An impending celebrity visit brings tensions to the boiling point at a San Francisco Bay Area Iranian community radio station in this charmingly droll play on Waiting For Godot, which screened at Mercury Cinema as part of the 10th...
by Dave Bradley | May 5, 2016 | Film, Interactive
by Dave Bradley. Adelaide-based filmmaker (director, co-writer-of-sorts, co-producer at times, co-editor and more) Mike Retter speaks to us about Stanley’s Mouth, a nearly-no-budget, Port-Adelaide-created, SASA-nominated feature shot with a camcorder on its side to...
by Nikki Fort | Oct 4, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Sat 3 Oct Made in 1991, this film is very clunky and predictable. Sadly, the subtitle translations were so bad that it was often hard to know what they meant. At times, viewers were talking aloud in the cinema trying to understand the...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 3, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Thu 1 Oct This is a frustrating story of true love thwarted by meddling extended family members. Directed by Hong Kong’s Ann Hui, it is set in Shanghai in the 1930s and shows a society obsessed with family and having children and where the...
by Nikki Fort | Oct 1, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[INDONESIA] Mercury Cinema, Wed 30 Sep It is chilling testimony to the authenticity of this profound documentary that many of those credited on the film, from co-producers, co-director, some cameramen, line producers and researchers, right down to gaffers and drivers,...