Adelaide Cinematheque
Year-round timeless classics, cult favourites & contemporary masterpieces.
Access is exclusive to Mercury Members or via a Mini-membership. Tickets for Adelaide Cinematheque screenings must be booked in-person at the Box Office.
Showing Mondays and Wednesdays 7:00pm, Tuesdays and Fridays 11:00am & 2:30pm
2026 Program Two of Silverscreen & Cinematheque HERE
Cries and Whispers
- Mon, Mar 16
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 1972 Language: Swedish
Starring: Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Liv Ullmann
Four women dressed in white in a mansion painted red... haunted by whispers and cries.
Autumn Sonata
- Mon, Mar 16
- Tue, Mar 24
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1978 Language: Swedish
Starring: Halvar Björk, Ingrid Bergman, Lena Nyman, Liv Ullmann, Marianne Aminoff
A mother and a daughter. What a terrible combination of feelings, confusion and destruction.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Mon, Mar 23
- Tue, Mar 24
- Fri, Mar 27
Director: Nicholas Stoller Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 2008
Starring: Bill Hader, Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand
You lose some, you get some.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
- Wed, Mar 25
Director: Lotte Reiniger Run Time: 66 min. Release Year: 1926 Language: German
Predating Snow White, this Arabian Nights adaptation by German filmmaker Lotte Reineger is both the earliest surviving animated...
Akira
- Mon, Mar 30
- Tue, Mar 31
- Tue, Apr 7
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1988 Language: Japanese
Starring: Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata, Mizuho Suzuki, Nozomu Sasaki, Tarō Ishida
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
Invention for Destruction
- Wed, Apr 1
- Tue, Apr 7
- Fri, Apr 10
Director: Karel Zeman Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 1958 Language: Czech
Starring: Arnošt Navrátil, František Šlégr, Jana Zatloukalová, Lubor Tokoš, Miloslav Holub
Fantastic Pedal Blimps Fly The Skies! - Four-Footed Machines In Incredible Sea Battle!
Horus: Prince of the Sun
- Wed, Apr 8
- Fri, Apr 10
- Tue, Apr 14
Director: Isao Takahata Run Time: 82 min. Release Year: 1968 Language: Japanese
Starring: Eijirō Tōno, Etsuko Ichihara, Hisako Ôkata, Mikijiro Hira, Tadashi Yokouchi
Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun...
The House Bunny
- Mon, Apr 13
- Tue, Apr 14
- Fri, Apr 17
Director: Fred Wolf Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 2008
Starring: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Hugh Hefner, Kat Dennings
For the girls of ZETA house college life was no party, until Shelley showed up.
Speed Racer
- Wed, Apr 15
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski Run Time: 135 min. Release Year: 2008
Starring: Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon
Go!
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
- Mon, Apr 20
- Tue, Apr 21
- Fri, Apr 24
Director: Dash Shaw Run Time: 76 min. Release Year: 2016
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Maya Rudolph, Reggie Watts, Susan Sarandon
Screening in Adelaide for the first time. An earthquake causes a high school to float into the sea,...
Bob le Flambeur
- Wed, Apr 22
- Fri, Apr 24
- Tue, Apr 28
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1956 Language: French
Starring: Daniel Cauchy, Gérard Buhr, Guy Decomble, Isabelle Corey, Roger Duchesne
After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino. Arguably the film...
The Lady from Shanghai
- Mon, Apr 27
- Tue, Apr 28
- Fri, May 1
Director: Orson Welles Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 1947
Starring: Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Ted de Corsia
I told you... you know nothing about wickedness
Hard Eight
- Wed, Apr 29
- Fri, May 1
- Tue, May 5
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 1997
Starring: F. William Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. Reilly, Philip Baker Hall, Samuel L. Jackson
If you stay in the game long enough, you'll see everything, win everything, and lose everything.
S.O.B.
- Mon, May 4
- Tue, May 5
- Fri, May 8
Director: Blake Edwards Run Time: 121 min. Release Year: 1981
Starring: Julie Andrews, Larry Hagman, Marisa Berenson, Robert Loggia, William Holden
The man who painted the panther pink, and taught you how to count to "10" now gives you Hollywood bull... at it's funniest and sexiest.
The Birdcage
- Wed, May 6
- Fri, May 8
- Tue, May 12
Director: Mike Nichols Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 1996
Starring: Dan Futterman, Dianne Wiest, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Robin Williams
Come as you are.
Boogie Nights
- Mon, May 11
- Tue, May 12
- Fri, May 15
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 156 min. Release Year: 1997
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Heather Graham, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg
The life of a dreamer, the days of a business and the nights in between.
Nashville
- Wed, May 13
- Fri, May 15
- Tue, May 19
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 160 min. Release Year: 1975
Starring: Barbara Baxley, David Arkin, Karen Black, Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley
The damndest thing you ever saw.
The Last Picture Show
- Mon, May 18
- Tue, May 19
- Fri, May 22
Director: Peter Bogdanovich Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 1971
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms
Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…
Magnolia
- Wed, May 20
- Fri, May 22
- Tue, May 26
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 189 min. Release Year: 1999
Starring: Julianne Moore, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, William H. Macy
Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.