The Mercury Cinema is delighted to announce the return of the much loved Summer Scoops program, running from 15 January to 16 February 2014. Escape from the scorching summer to the cool of the cinema and catch up on a specially curated selection of 11 films and documentaries from 2013 including five Adelaide premieres and four exclusive South Australia theatrical releases.
Mercury Cinema’s Exhibition Manager Mat Kesting said, “We’ve hand-picked a selection of hot films that have been received well on the international festival circuit and at interstate cinemas that would not otherwise be seen in Adelaide plus a few extras that we think deserve longer on the big screen”
The season opens with a screening of enthralling French drama Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013), winner of Cannes’ 2013 Un Certain Regard prize for Best Director and also the Queer Palm. Stranger by the Lake is a riveting murder-drama set at a gay cruising area beside a picturesque French lake in summer.
Summer Scoops program highlights include Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013) the debut film from award-winning National Geographic photographer and long-time Antarctic resident Anthony Powell, filmed over the course of a decade; Oh Boy! (Jan Ole Gerster, 2012) the award winning comedy about twenty–somethings facing adulthood in the face of caffeine withdrawal, set in Berlin, and the unmissable US Indie, Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton, 2013) which received a three awards and a standing ovation at this year’s A-List Locarno Film Festival. Music fans will revel in Muscle Shoals – the true story about the small Alabama town that produced big hits like Mustang Sally, When a Man Loves a Woman and Brown Sugar.
A major scoop will be the SA premiere of the latest film from Ken Loach, The Spirit of ’45 (2013). It’s an impassioned documentary about how the spirit of unity that buoyed Britain during the war years carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. The program will wrap up with Philomena (Stephen Frears, 2013), the true story of one mother’s search for her lost son, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.
Summer Scoops
When: 15 January – 16 February 2014
Where: Mercury Cinema, Lion Arts Centre, Morphett Road, Adelaide
Tickets: $6 – $15
Bookings: Book through the Mercury Cinema
Check out all the trailers here:
- The Battle of the Sexes
- Jackie
- Philomena
- Muscle Shoals
- Short Term 12
- Oh Boy!
- Antarctica: A Year on Ice
- Cutie And The Boxer
- The Spirit of ’45
- Blackfish
- Stranger by the Lake
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