Happening Now
Boogie Nights
- Today, May 11
- Tue, May 12
- Fri, May 15
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 156 min. Rating: R 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.
DJ Ahmet
- Tue, May 12
- Fri, May 22
Director: Georgi M. Unkovski Run Time: 97 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2025 Language: Macedonian
Starring: Agush Agushev, Aksel Mehmet, Arif Jakup, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Selpin Kerim
A 15-year-old Yuruk boy from a remote Macedonian village escapes into music amidst parental expectations, societal conservatism, and...
The Birdcage
- Tue, May 12
Director: Mike Nichols Run Time: 119 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1996
Starring: Dan Futterman, Dianne Wiest, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Robin Williams
Come as you are.
Magellan
- Tue, May 12
- Fri, May 22
Director: Lav Diaz Run Time: 163 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2025 Language: Portuguese
Starring: Amado Arjay Babon, Ângela Ramos, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Gael García Bernal, Melvil Poupaud, Ronnie Lazaro, Sofiane Zermani, Steve Tientcheu
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands in 1519. He quells mutinies, attempts...
Nashville
- Wed, May 13
- Fri, May 15
- Tue, May 19
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 160 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1975
Starring: Barbara Baxley, David Arkin, Karen Black, Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley
The damndest thing you ever saw.
Nouvelle Vague
- Fri, May 15
Director: Richard Linklater Run Time: 106 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson, Aubry Dullin, Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch
Everyone loves the new wave.
Sinners
- Fri, May 15
Director: Ryan Coogler Run Time: 138 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2025
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O'Connell, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Wunmi Mosaku
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to...
The Last Picture Show
- Mon, May 18
- Tue, May 19
- Fri, May 22
Director: Peter Bogdanovich Run Time: 119 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1971
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms
Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
- Tue, May 19
- Fri, May 29
Director: Sepideh Farsi Run Time: 113 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Fatima Hassouna, Sepideh Farsi
A filmmaker connects with a Palestinian woman in Gaza who documents life under bombardment. Their 200+ days of...
Calle Malaga
- Tue, May 19
- Fri, May 29
Director: Maryam Touzani Run Time: 116 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2025 Language: Spanish
Starring: Ahmed Boulane, Carmen Maura, María Alfonsa Rosso, Marta Etura, Miguel Garcés
An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter’s decision to sell her home. Determined to stay, she...
Magnolia
- Wed, May 20
- Fri, May 22
- Tue, May 26
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 189 min. Rating: MA15+ 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.
The Chorus
- Thu, May 21
Director: Christophe Barratier Run Time: 97 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2004 Language: French
Starring: François Berléand, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Kad Merad, Marie Bunel
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Going Down
- Fri, May 22
Director: Haydn Keenan Run Time: 92 min. Rating: M
Starring: Tracy Mann
Special Adelaide screening Going Down is a darkly humorous, high speed odyssey through a neon city in the...
Harold and Maude
- Mon, May 25
Director: Hal Ashby Run Time: 92 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1971
Starring: Bud Cort, Charles Tyner, Cyril Cusack, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles
They were meant to be. But exactly what they were meant to be is not quite clear.
Wolfram
- Tue, May 26
- Fri, Jun 5
Director: Warwick Thornton Run Time: 100 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2026
Starring: Deborah Mailman, Erroll Shand, Joe Bird, Pedrea Jackson, Thomas M. Wright
Family is everything.
Pike River
- Tue, May 26
- Fri, Jun 5
Director: Robert Sarkies Run Time: 131 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2025
Starring: Erroll Shand, Jordan Mooney, Madeleine McCarthy, Melanie Lynskey, Robyn Malcolm
In the fight for their men, they found each other.
Popeye
- Wed, May 27
- Fri, May 29
- Tue, Jun 2
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 114 min. Rating: G Release Year: 1980
Starring: Paul Dooley, Paul L. Smith, Ray Walston, Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall
Haves a happy holiday with me an' Olive!
Punch-Drunk Love
- Mon, Jun 1
- Tue, Jun 2
- Fri, Jun 5
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 96 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2002
Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Luis Guzmán, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Philip Seymour Hoffman
I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
Birthright
- Tue, Jun 2
- Fri, Jun 12
Director: Zoe Pepper Run Time: 90 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2025
Starring: Linda Cropper, Maria Angelico, Michael Hurst, Tai Hara, Travis Jeffery
In this pitch black comedy, Cory evicted from his rental, moves back with his pregnant wife to her...
The President’s Cake
- Tue, Jun 2
- Fri, Jun 12
Director: Hasan Hadi Run Time: 106 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2025
Starring: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Muthanna Malaghi, Rahim AlHaj, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat
In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake the President’s birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this...
Giant
- Wed, Jun 3
- Fri, Jun 5
- Fri, Jun 12
Director: George Stevens Run Time: 201 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1956
Starring: Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Jane Withers, Rock Hudson
Sometimes any man can be a giant . . .
Satu – Year of the Rabbit
- Tue, Jun 9
- Fri, Jun 19
Director: Joshua Trigg Run Time: 93 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2025 Language: Lao
Starring: Athit Sylavong, Itthiphone Sonepho, Joy Lee, Sonedala Sihavong, Vanthiva Saysana
When a bomb endangers the Pha Tang temple, an orphan child laborer decides to head north through the...
H Is for Hawk
- Tue, Jun 9
- Fri, Jun 19
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Run Time: 120 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2025
Starring: Angus Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Claire Foy, Josh Dylan, Sam Spruell
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named...
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- Wed, Jun 10
- Fri, Jun 12
- Tue, Jun 16
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 120 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 1971
Starring: John Schuck, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, Warren Beatty, William Devane
The story of a gambling man and a hustling lady and the empire they fashioned from the wilderness.
There Will Be Blood
- Mon, Jun 15
- Tue, Jun 16
- Fri, Jun 19
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 158 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2007
Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dillon Freasier, Kevin J. O'Connor, Paul Dano
There will be greed. There will be vengeance.
The Plague
- Tue, Jun 16
- Fri, Jun 26
Director: Charlie Polinger Run Time: 98 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2025
Starring: Everett Blunck, Joel Edgerton, Kayo Martin, Kenny Rasmussen, Lucas Adler
A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological...
A Private Life
- Tue, Jun 16
- Fri, Jun 26
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Run Time: 108 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jodie Foster, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste, Virginie Efira
The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom...
Nightmare Alley
- Wed, Jun 17
- Fri, Jun 19
- Tue, Jun 23
Director: Edmund Goulding Run Time: 111 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1947
Starring: Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Joan Blondell, Taylor Holmes, Tyrone Power
He was all things to all men…But only one thing to all women!
10 Things I Hate About You
- Thu, Jun 18
Director: Gil Junger Run Time: 97 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1999
Starring: David Krumholtz, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik
How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Mon, Jun 22
- Tue, Jun 23
- Fri, Jun 26
Director: John Huston Run Time: 126 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1948
Starring: Barton MacLane, Bruce Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law.
The Christophers
- Tue, Jun 23
- Fri, Jul 3
Director: Steven Soderbergh Run Time: 100 min. Rating: CTC Release Year: 2026
Starring: Ferdy Roberts, Ian McKellen, James Corden, Jessica Gunning, Michaela Coel
Art can be copied. Artists cannot.
Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story
- Tue, Jun 23
- Fri, Jul 3
Director: Matthew Walker Run Time: 90 min. Rating: M Release Year: 2026
Starring: Greedy Smith, Martin Plaza, Neil Finn, Peter O'Doherty, Reg Mombassa
Live It Up celebrates Mental As Anything - an art-school band whose warmth, wit and irreverent spirit captured Australian suburban life and left an enduring cultural legacy.
The Master
- Wed, Jun 24
- Fri, Jun 26
- Tue, Jun 30
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 137 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2012
Starring: Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rami Malek
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future – until he is tantalised...
The Long Goodbye
- Mon, Jun 29
- Tue, Jun 30
- Fri, Jul 3
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 112 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1973
Starring: Elliott Gould, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden
Nothing says goodbye like a bullet…
Repo Man
- Wed, Jul 1
- Fri, Jul 3
- Tue, Jul 7
Director: Alex Cox Run Time: 92 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1984
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Tracey Walter
It’s 4 a.m. Do you know where your car is?
Inherent Vice
- Mon, Jul 6
- Tue, Jul 7
- Fri, Jul 10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 149 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2014
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon
Love usually leads to trouble.
HEAPS GOOD SHORTS
Run Time: 60 min.
The Mercury and West Torrens Library are pleased to present a special Heaps Good Shorts program of short...