About Us
The MRFS is a membership-based club and is therefore unable to sell tickets for one film only. We are an incorporated, not-for-profit organisation.
We do not operate as a usual cinema but as a club and the following describes how your annual membership fee of $80 is spent. As a club, our upfront outlays are hall hire, hire of DVDs plus screening rights, General and Public Liability insurance, membership of Federation of Victorian Film Societies, photocopying and other sundry housekeeping expenses and refreshments. Your modest fee of $80 per year covers these expenses, the viewing of eleven films and many other benefits.
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All films are chosen with a broad interest in mind, ensuring that a wide selection of genres is shown and takes into account films suggested by members.
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A list of films is distributed at the beginning of the year (see latest program).
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Informative film notes are provided on every film night.
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An average film length is 90 minutes allowing a relatively early night for locals.
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Films are shown in a cinema-like setting.
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Supper is provided after the film, sometimes by members.
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MRFS has its own film library and members are welcome to borrow films for the duration of one month.
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For $80 year you get to see 11 films, film notes, supper and convivial company. A sliding fee scale applies if you join at any stage during the current season.
For more information, email mrfilmsociety@gmail.com
or phone Lorraine on 0402 299 153
Our 2025 Program
February The Kitchen Brigade
Friday 14 February - The Kitchen Brigade (1hr 37m) France 2022
Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children’s lives.
Director: Louis-Julien Petit Starring: Audrey Lamy, Francois Cluzet, Chantal Neuwirth, Fatou Kaba
March Romulus My Father
Friday 14 March - Romulus My Father (1hr 44m) Australia 2009
It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Director: Richard Roxburgh Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Martin Csokas
April The Holdovers
Friday 11 April - The Holdovers (1hr 32m) USA 2023
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
Director: Alexander Payne Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
May Muriel’s Wedding
Friday 9 May - Muriel’s Wedding 1hr 46m Australia 1994
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to ABBA and dreaming of her wedding day. A slight problem is she never had a date. She steals money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down. Director: P J Hogan Starring: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Jeanie Drynan, Dan Wylie, Sophie Lee, Daniel Lapaine
June The Outfit
Friday 13 June - The Outfit 1h 45m UK 2022
Leonard (Mark Rylance), a master English tailor who’s ended up in Chicago, operates a corner tailor shop with his assistant (Zoey Deutch) where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.
Director: Graham Moore
Starring: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Simon Russell Beale
July Much Ado About Nothing
Friday 11 July - Much Ado About Nothing 1hr 51m UK 1993
Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
Director: Kenneth Branagh Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean Leonard
August Shayda
Friday 8 August - Shayda 1hr 57m Australia 2023 A young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women’s shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz). Director: Noora Niasari Starring: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Leah Purcell, Mojean Aria
September North By Northwest
**Friday 12 September - North By Northwest 1h 45m USA 1959 **A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Carey Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
October Members’ Choice - Maggie Smith
Friday 10 October - Members’ Choice - Maggie Smith
Film to be advised following members’ voted choice of a film to honour the memory of the late, great, Maggie Smith (1934 - 2024)
Director: Starring:
November The Blue Caftan
Friday 14 November - The Blue Caftan 2h 02m Morocco 2022
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is moved by his presence.
Director: DIr: Maryam Touzani
Starring: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui
December Wild Rose
Friday 12 December - Wild Rose 1h 41m UK 2018 A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star. Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville.
Director: Tom Harper Starring: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters
Up Next - April - 'The Holdovers'
Friday 11 April - The Holdovers (1hr 32m) USA 2023
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
Director: Alexander Payne Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
FILM RATINGS & SCREENING HISTORY 2014 - 2025
We use the StarBox rating system developed for Victorian film societies by the Federation of Victorian Film Societies – members rate the film from 1 to 5 stars
Note: The StarBox rating system was introduced in August 2015, so films screened prior to that date are not rated.
2014 - 2025
2025
Wild Rose December - StarBox – t.b.a.
The Blue Caftan November - StarBox – t.b.a.
Members’ Choice Maggie Smith October - StarBox – t.b.a.
North By Northwest September - StarBox – t.b.a.
Shayda August StarBox – t.b.a.
Much Ado About Nothing July - StarBox 4.5
The Outfit June - StarBox 4.5
Muriel’s Wedding May - StarBox – 4.3
The Holdovers April - StarBox – 4.3
Romulus My Father March StarBox – 4.3
The Kitchen Brigade February – StarBox – 4.2
2024
Julie & Julia - December StarBox - 4.2
Cool Climate Cinema Short Film Festival November - Audience - 10/10
Empire of Light November - StarBox 4.4
Farewell Mr Haffmann October - StarBox 4.5
The Duchess September - StarBox 3.7
High Ground August - StarBox 4.4
The Secret Life of Bees July - StarBox 4.3
Margrete: Queen of the North June - StarBox 4.1
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels May - StarBox 4.1
The Forgiven- April - StarBox 3.7
The Lost City of Melbourne March - StarBox 4.3
The Big Steal February– StarBox 4.3
The Court Jester December - StarBox 4.4
Maudie November - StarBox 4.3
The Shawshank Redemption October - StarBox 4.6
Romeo+Juliet (Baz Luhrmann) September - StarBox 3.9
Delicious August - StarBox 4.7
Nomadland August - StarBox 3.7
Ride Like A Girl July - StarBox 4.7
The Commitments June - StarBox 4.7
Parallel Mothers May - StarBox 4.2
My House In Umbria April - StarBox 3.7
The Quiet Girl March - StarBox 3.9
The Full Monty February - StarBox 4.5
2022
A Man in a Hurry December - StarBox 4.3
Double Indemnity 4K November - StarBox 3.9
Penguin Bloom October - StarBox 4.5
The African Queen September - StarBox 3.7
Edmund Hilary Ocean to Sky August - StarBox 4.8
The Dish July - StarBox 4.9
I, Daniel Blake June - StarBox 4.4
Jo Jo Rabbit May - StarBox 4.1
Loving Vincent April - StarBox 4.3
Sweet Country March - StarBox 3.4
Military Wives February - StarBox 4.0
2021
Belle – December - StarBox n/a
Alan Partridge (Alpha Papa) November - StarBox 2.8
The African Queen October - NOT DUE TO COVID
Belle – September - NOT DUE TO COVID
Sweet Country August - NOT DUE TO COVID
A Street Cat Named Bob July - StarBox 4.5
Loving Vincent June - NOT DUE TO COVID
The Kid With A Bike May - StarBox 3.7
The World’s Fastest Indian April - StarBox 4.4
See You Up There March - StarBox 4.3
Love Serenade – February 12 – StarBox n/a
2020
Due to Covid restrictions only two films were able to be screened in 2020.
Gran Torino March - StarBox 4.5
Singin’ In The Rain February - StarBox 4.2
2019
Ladies In Black November - StarBox 4.7
Thelma & Louise Members’ Choice October - StarBox 4.4
Ali’s Wedding September - StarBox 3.8
Babette’s Feast August - StarBox 4.7
Oranges and Sunshine August - StarBox 4.0
Somers Town July - StarBox 3.5
Enduring Love June - StarBox 2.9
Sunset Boulevard May - StarBox 4.2
In Bruges April - StarBox 4.2
A Little Bit Mongolian March - StarBox 4.6
Death At A Funeral February - StarBox 4.3
2018
The Belier Family November - StarBox 4.6
Beautiful Kate October - StarBox 3.8
The Young Victoria September - StarBox 4.5
From Russia With Love August - StarBox 3.5
To Catch a Thief July - StarBox 3.9
Mustang- June - StarBox 4.5
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest May - StarBox 4.4
Hunt for the Wilderpeople April - StarBox 4.5
Life is Beautiful March - StarBox 4.1
Strictly Ballroom February - StarBox 4.4
2017
The Party November – StarBox 3.1
The Imposter October – StarBox 3.4
Far from Men September – StarBox 3.9
Man of la Mancha Musical August – StarBox 3.9
Little Voice August - StarBox 4.1
Miss Potter July - StarBox 4.4
Lonely Hearts June - StarBox 4.4
Ida May - StarBox 3.8
Moonrise Kingdom April – StarBox 3.6
Mystery Road March – StarBox 3.5
Mic Macs February – StarBox 3.1
2016
Quartet November - StarBox 4.8
Japanese Story October - StarBox 3.7
The Imitation Game September - StarBox 4.2
West Side Story Sunday Musical August - StarBox n/a
Rope July - StarBox 3.6
The Lunchbox June - StarBox 4.1
August: Osage County May – StarBox 4.1
Inside Out April - StarBox 4.0
Charlie’s Country March - StarBox 3.7
The Intouchables February - StarBox 4.5
2015
Best in Show November – StarBox 4.7
To Have and Have Not October - StarBox 3.6
The Secret in Their Eyes – StarBox 4.1
The Angels’ Share August – StarBox 4.2 (StarBox system commences)
Philomena July
Finding Vivian Maier June
The Bird Cage- Robin Williams Comedy – members’ choice May
Crushed April
Pearl of the Far East March
Healing February
2014
Welcome to the Sticks - November
Bill Cunningham New York - October
Never Let Me Go - September
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - August
The Third Man - July
Mary and Max - June
Memento - May
The Band’s Visit - April
The History Boys - March
The Sapphires - February
2010 - 2013 - go to next page
The Macedon Ranges Film Society Committee for 2024-2025 is;
President - Henry Screen
Vice President - Trevor Rogers
Secretary - Lorraine Rutherford
Treasurer - Margarite Dessens
Committee Members -
Christine Caley, Terry Bowles, Neil Aplin, Sue Yardley
Our Annual General meeting is held in March.
Contact Us
Address
Norma Richardson Hall - 15 Buckland Street Woodend 3442
Phone
0402 299 153Operating Hours
Second Friday of the month - February to December
7:00PM - 10:00pm