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MIFF 1990

Tait Brady
#39

Festival Program
71 feature films and 127 short films were screened from 8 June to 23 June
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Program in Focus
The 39th Melbourne International Film Festival featured the following sections: documentaries, international features, super 8 and video, retrospectives, international shorts competition, a children's festival and a spotlight on two filmmakers, Bertolucci and Kaurismäki.

Filmmakers in Focus
Bernardo Bertolucci. A retrospective of Bertolucci's work was screened. 
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Filmmakers in Focus
Aki Kaurismäki. A retrospective of Kaurismäki's work was screened. 
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Opening Night Film
A Story of Boys and Girls (Pupi Avati)
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Image Gallery

Films

...In A Few Words...

Director George Ray
MIFF 1990

A Broken Horse

Director Michael Cahill
USA
MIFF 1990

AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE

Director Jane Campion
MIFF 1990

BEHIND THE MASK

Director Frank Martin
MIFF 1990

BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES

Director Mark Kitchell
USA
MIFF 1990

Between Us

Director Bill Mousoulis
MIFF 1990

Boy Soldiers

Director Mark Joffe
MIFF 1990

Bunny

Director Edwin James Lynch
MIFF 1990

Butoh and the Japanese

Directors Greg Miller , Georgia Wallace-Crabbe
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CRY-BABY

Director John Waters
USA
MIFF 1990

D

Director Michael Dwass
USA
MIFF 1990

E.G.

Director Virginia Hilyard
MIFF 1990

Earthbound

Director Jeff Jaffers
MIFF 1990

Eden

Director Maryella Hatfield
MIFF 1990

Feral Television

Director Damien Ledwich
MIFF 1990

FULL MOON IN NEW YORK

Director Stanley Kwan
MIFF 1990

Going Up

Director Gary Pollard
USA
MIFF 1990

Grrr!

Director Heinz Boeck
MIFF 1990

His Master's Ghost

Director Steve Jodrell
MIFF 1990

HOLLYWOOD MAVERICKS

Director Dale Ann Stieber
USA
MIFF 1990

LAND BILONG ISLANDERS

Director Trevor Graham
MIFF 1990

Let Me Rescue You Before Someone Else Does

Director Doerthe Jansen
MIFF 1990

Llaw

Director Penelope Buitenhuis
MIFF 1990

LORD OF THE BUSH

Director Tom Zubrycki
MIFF 1990

Love Life

Director Richard Tuohy
MIFF 1990

Lunch

Director Michael Dwass
USA
MIFF 1990

Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji

Director Taka Iimura
MIFF 1990

Madonna

Director Laki Sideris
MIFF 1990

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School

Director Randall Miller
USA
MIFF 1990

Melbourne Pipers' Tune

Director Sandy Munro
MIFF 1990

Michelle and Carolyn, Carolyn and Michelle

Director Darren Davies
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Newbury

Director Mark Freeman
MIFF 1990

NIRVANA STREET MURDER

Director Aleksi Vellis
MIFF 1990

ON THE WAVES OF THE ADRIATIC

Director Brian McKenzie
MIFF 1990

Pause

Director Raffi Ghazarian
MIFF 1990

Plead Guilty, Get A Bond

Director Peter Maguire
MIFF 1990

Precious

Director Bill Mousoulis
MIFF 1990

PRESTON STURGES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER

Director Kenneth Bowser
USA
MIFF 1990

Queimada

Directors Ralf Hertwig , Markus Wernig
MIFF 1990

SENSO DAUGHTERS

Director Noriko Sekiguchi
MIFF 1990

Small Blue Thing

Director Mark La Rosa
MIFF 1990

Swimming

Director Belinda Chayko
MIFF 1990

Tea and Pictures

Directors Claire Jaeger , Susan Weis
MIFF 1990

THE BIG STEAL

Director Nadia Tass
MIFF 1990

The Big Wish

Director Esben Storm
MIFF 1990

The Last Newsreel

Director Karen Borger
MIFF 1990

THE LAW

Tilai
Director Idrissa Ouedraogo
MIFF 1990

THE ROAD TO GOD KNOWS WHERE

Director Uli M. Schüppel
MIFF 1990

The Verdict of the Rational in the Face of the Absurd

Director Damien Grant
MIFF 1990

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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