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MIFF 1979

Erwin Rado
#28

Festival Program
76 features and 100 short films were screened from 1 June to 18 June
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Program in Focus
The 1979 festival program, Rado's last as official Festival Director, featured a retrospective titled Missed Masterpieces. Films included features from Bresson and Visconti, Peau d'âne (Jacques Demy), A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu) and Uccellacci e uccellini (Pier Paolo Pasolini).

Featured Film
Alambrista!' (The Illegal) (Robert M Young)
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Featured Film
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantel Akerman)
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Image Gallery

Films

Blood

Aima
Director Thanassis Rentzis
MIFF 1979

Butch Minds the Baby

Director Peter Webb
UK
MIFF 1979

Confessions of a Star Dreamer

Director John Canemaker
USA
MIFF 1979

ERNESTO

Director Salvatore Samperi
MIFF 1979

EVEREST UNMASKED

Director Aled Vaughan
UK
MIFF 1979

GEORGE SEGAL

Director Michael Blackwood
USA
MIFF 1979

HARDCORE

Director Paul Schrader
USA
MIFF 1979

KASSBACH - A PORTRAIT

Kassbach ein Portrait
Director Peter Patzak
MIFF 1979

KOSTAS

Director Paul Cox
MIFF 1979

LYNN SEYMOUR - IN A CLASS OF HER OWN

Director Karin Altmann
MIFF 1979

NIGHT PATHS

Wege in der Nacht
Director Krzysztof Zanussi
MIFF 1979

Nobody Else Can Feel It For You

Director Barbara Chobocky
MIFF 1979

Oxide Street Junction

Director Jim Dale
MIFF 1979

Rainbow Acres

Director Russell A. Murphy
USA
MIFF 1979

THE CASE OF CRUELTY TO PRAWNS

Director Ben Lewin
UK
MIFF 1979

The Seven Islands of Frigg

Les sept iles de Frigg
Directors R. Enrico , P. de Roubaix
MIFF 1979

Victorian Tapestry Centre

Director Paul Jansen
MIFF 1979

You're the One

Director John Bell
MIFF 1979

From the Festival Files

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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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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