MIFF 1964

Erwin Rado
#13

Festival Program
37 feature films and 113 short films were screened from 29 May to 15 June
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Program in Focus
The 1964 program featured seminal films from auteurs that would enjoy a long affiliation with the festival. Major films included Fellini's 8 ½, Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux, based upon the novel of the same name, Ingmar Bergman's So Close to Life, Luis Buñuel's Exterminating Angel and Yasujiro Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon

Featured Film

Hands on the City (Francesco Rosi, 1963)
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Featured Film 
The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte, 1962)
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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 …

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 …