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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From the Festival Files

On Screen and in the Cinema

The magic of the festival is reached through its screens. These are places and spaces that captivate our attention, providing windows where films come to life before our eyes. As portals to the world, the festival’s screens allow us to travel the globe, move through time, and see through another’s eyes. … Yet these screens also remind us of home. They are fixed in place, in our memories and in o …

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 …