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MIFF 1982

Geoff Gardner
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Festival Program
91 feature films and 104 short films were screened from 3 June to 14 June
Full Program

Program in Focus
As well as a full screening program, the 1982 festival program featured an editorial on New German Cinema, while paying homage to Fritz Lang via a retrospective of his work. Statements by Australian independent filmmakers Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini, James Clayden and Dirk de Bruyn also featured.

Filmmaker in Focus
Fritz Lang
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Opening Night Film
Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer)
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Featured Film
Americana (David Carradine)
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Image Gallery

Films

A FAREWELL TO THE LAND

Saraba itoshiki daichi
Director Mitsuo Yanagimachi
MIFF 1982

A STRANGE AFFAIR

Un etrange affaire
Director Pierre Granier Deferre
MIFF 1982

BROKEN SKY

Brusten himmel
Director Ingrid Thulin
MIFF 1982

BURDEN OF DREAMS

Director Les Blank
USA
MIFF 1982

Cafe of Love

Director Jinks Dulhunty
MIFF 1982

CHANGING THE NEEDLE

Directors Martha Ansara , Mavis Robertson , Dasha Ross
MIFF 1982

CORPSE

Director James Clayden
MIFF 1982

Flank Breeder

Director Currie
MIFF 1982

Four Steps to Glamour

Director Anne Harding
MIFF 1982

Fur in Ice

Eis im pelz
Director Schonbeck
MIFF 1982

Hopedope

Director Jochen M. Cerhak
MIFF 1982

INSIDE OUT

Director Eric Sherman
USA
MIFF 1982

JOURNEY TO THE END OF NIGHT

Director Peter Tammer
MIFF 1982

Last Breakfast in Paradise

Director Meg Stewart
MIFF 1982

Level

Director Christine F. Koenigs
MIFF 1982

Nick Mazzuco: Biography of an Atomic Vet

Director Richard Kurt Schmiechen
USA
MIFF 1982

ROUGH CUT AND READY DUBBED

Directors Hasan Shah , Dom Shaw
UK
MIFF 1982

Shadows

Director Royden Irvine
MIFF 1982

The Applicant

Director Richard Wherrett
MIFF 1982

The Living Soil

Director Roger Seccombe
MIFF 1982

VERONIKA VOSS

Die sehnsucht der veronika voss
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
MIFF 1982

White Noise

Director Michelle Mahrer
MIFF 1982

From the Festival Files

Making the Festival

The Melbourne Film Festival began as the idea of a few passionate individuals. A sub-committee, formed from delegates to the 1951 Australian Council of Film Societies film weekend, suggested that a small festival of films in the tourist town of Olinda should be held in 1952. The resulting festival was a testament to the do-it-yourself initiative of the Olinda festival committee. As some 800 festiv …
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The Living Festival

What would a festival be without its audience? There wouldn’t be a festival at all! … People are the beating heart of MIFF. It was the coming together of some 800 people in Olinda in 1952 that gave birth to the Melbourne Film Festival. Since that unanticipated outpouring of community love for film, MIFF has become an annual gathering space for film enthusiasts and the cine-curious from Melbourne …
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