MIFF 1970

Erwin Rado
#19

Festival Program
36 feature films and 104 short films were screened from 5 June to 20 June
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Program in Focus
While a Canadian cinéma-verité film, A Married Couple (Allan King), was banned, notable films that screened included Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Calcutta (Louis Malle), Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk), Innocence Unprotected (Dusan Makavejev), Je t'aime, Je t'aime (Alain Resnais), Killer (Claude Chabrol), Lucia (Humberto Solás), My Night With Maud (Eric Rohmer) and Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha).

Featured Film

In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1967)
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Featured Film
Jack and Jill: A Postscript (Philip Adams, 1969)
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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 …