MIFF 1978

Erwin Rado
#27

Festival Program
66 features and 101 short films were screened from 2 June to 17 June
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Program in Focus
The 1978 festival featured a selection of American silent classics. Nine feature films were curated for this section, including The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928), The Wind (Victor Sjöstrom, 1928), A Woman in Paris (Charles Chaplin, 1923) and The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg, 1928).

Other notable new films included That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel), Citizen's Band (Jonathan Demme), The American Friend (Wim Wenders), The Apple Game (V?ra Chytilová)

Featured Film
Before Hindsight (Jonathan Lewis, 1977)
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Featured Film
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (Christian Blackwood, 1977)
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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 …

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 …