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MIFF 1966

Erwin Rado
#15

Festival Program
43 feature films and 112 short films were screened from 3 June to 18 June
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Program in Focus
The 1966 program included a retrospective on the films of Damien Parer, a war cameraman. 8 short films were shown, on loan from the Australian National Library. Alain Resnais's remarkable short film Night and Fog was screened, as was Fires of a Plain (Kon Ichikawa), Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci), Raven's End (Bo Wilderberg), Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski), and Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman).

Featured Film
Sandra (Luchino Visconti, 1965)
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Featured Film
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
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Films

CHOOSE LIFE

Wähle das Leben
Director Erwin Leiser
MIFF 1966

Femmes d'aujourd'hui

Director Claude A. Putzeys
MIFF 1966

It Helps to be Mad

Director John King
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THE DEAD AND THE ALIVE

Juk un Ja San Ja
Director Kangchon Lee
MIFF 1966

ZERO IN THE UNIVERSE

Director George Moorse
USA
MIFF 1966

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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