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MIFF 1963

Erwin Rado
#12

Festival Program
31 feature films and 144 short films were screened from 25 May to 9 June
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Program in Focus
More American films started to appear in the 1963 Melbourne Film Festival program, including David and Lisa (Frank Perry), Denis Sanders' War Hunt , Curtis Harrington's Night Tide and Ray Garner's short film Vincent Van Gogh: A Self Portrait. Other notable films continued to be programmed from countries and filmmakers featured at previous Melbourne FIlm Festivals, particularly French and Italian cinema and the films of Kurosawa and Wajda. Notable films of the 1963 program included: Yojimbo (Kurosawa), Léon Morin, Priest (Melville), Paris Belongs to Us (Rivette), Innocent Sorcerers (Wajda) and Mamma Roma (Pasolini).

Featured Film
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)
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Featured Film 
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
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Films

A Hole in the Ground

Director B. McNaughton
MIFF 1963

Down Rapid Streams

Director Lei Chen-lin
MIFF 1963

Henry Moore, London, 1940-1942

Director Anthony Roland
MIFF 1963

Innsbruck Tokyo 1964

Director F. W. Bryant Jnr
USA
MIFF 1963

Quake and Quiver

Director Arjun Jairamdas
MIFF 1963

The Critic

Director Ernest Pintoff
USA
MIFF 1963

The Land That Waited

Director Gil Brealey
MIFF 1963

The Pitcairn People

Director Peter Newington
UK
MIFF 1963

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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