The best of British stage and screen celebrate 50 Years of National Theatre
LYGON STREET: SI PARLA ITALIANO tells the story of Melbourne's most iconic street.
The captivity of orcas for human entertainment is questioned in BLACKFISH.
Morgan Neville's tribute to pop's back up singers 20 FEET FROM STARDOM
Julia Louis Dreyfus & James Gandolfini star in comedy ENOUGH SAID
Kill Your Darlings
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poet's early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving...
The Spectacular Now
For Sutter, a charming high-school senior and budding alcoholic, the now is all that matters. It is where he can live in the moment and be the life of the party. But after a post-breakup bender,...
Closed Circuit
From Director John Crowley (Boy A, Is Anybody There?) and writer Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) comes the international suspense thriller Closed Circuit. A high-profile terrorism case...
Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) is a Latin teacher from Berne. Encountering a book by the Portuguese poet and doctor Amadeu de Prado, he takes a train to Lisbon determined to find out more about...
The Gilded Cage
Advance screenings this weekend! Writer/director Ruben Alves’ enormously charming, semi-autobiographical Parisian comedy is the story of a loving, hardworking married couple whose...
50 Years On Stage
A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME PERFORMANCE DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS HYTNER captured live and screened in high definition. Featuring: Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch ,Ralph...
Austenland - Exclusive
Single, 30-something Jane Hayes (Keri Russell) is a seemingly normal young woman with an embarrassing secret: she is obsessed with Mr. Darcy (as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of...
Magic Magic - Exclusive
When Alicia (Juno Temple) flies from California to Chile in order to spend time with her cousin Sarah, she finds herself taken on an island holiday with Sarah's friends. Unable to speak the...
One Chance
The remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts (James Corden), a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night. Paul became an instant YouTube phenomenon after...
How I Live Now
From the director of Touching The Void and The Last King Of Scotland comes an unflinching, all-too-real thriller. Set in the near-future UK, Saoirse Ronan (Hanna, Atonement) stars as American...
Blackfish - Exclusive
In 2010, the orca Tilikum killed one of his Sea World trainers. It was the third death the killer whale had been involved in over two decades in captivity. This eye-opening film focuses on the...
20 Feet From Stardom
The back-up singers who made great songs greater and enhanced the voices of music icons from Mick Jagger to Stevie Wonder step into the limelight in Morgan Neville's Twenty Feet From...
Filth
When Trainspotting arrived in 1996 it gave birth to the Cool Britannia era of film-making; Irvine Welsh's unmistakable voice proving a true revelation for audiences and critics. Fifteen years...
Adoration
A fearless portrait of love, lust and the power of friendship, ADORATION tells the story of Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright), two lifelong friends who embark on separate, passionate...
Lygon Street - Si Parla Italiano - Exclusive
After the disaster of World War II, a wave of Italian immigrants found their way to Melbourne – a strange place, suspicious of outsiders and completely devoid of a good cup of espresso....
Enough Said
A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter's impending departure for college. She meets Albert (James...
The Counselor
Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott and Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy ( No Country for Old Men ) have joined forces in the motion picture thriller THE COUNSELOR, starring Michael...
In Bob We Trust - Exclusive
Having faithfully served his South Melbourne parish for nearly four decades, the cantankerous, controversial Catholic provocateur affectionately called Father Bob is well known and loved, as much...
Gravity - 3D
Returning to the director's chair for the first time since Children Of Men, Alfonso Cuaron's GRAVITY is a riveting space-set thriller presented in immersive 3D. Sandra Bullock stars as Dr...
The Butler
Lee Daniels' THE BUTLER tells the true story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society...
Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips is director Paul Greengrass's multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through...
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Advance screenings October 18-20! Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) has had many ups and downs in his life and career. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV....
Tim Winton's The Turning
The Turning is a unique cinema event. Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning...
Blue Jasmine
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister...
Richard II - The Royal Shakespeare Company
William Shakespeare’s Richard II has been captured live from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s sellout London production (the fastest selling show in the RSC’s history!). David...
Dec 7, 2013
Director: Gregory Doran
Running Time: To be confirmed mins
Rating: NR
One Life
Celebrating the journey that all living things take; from the moment they are born to that most important achievement, their vital goal: the happy and successful delivery of youngsters of their...
Dec 9, 2013
Director: Michael Gunton
Running Time: 1hr 26 mins
Rating: PG
American Hustle
Manhattan-based con artists Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) are forced to work for FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) to avoid prosecution following a sting...
Dec 12, 2013
Director: David O. Russell
Running Time: 2hrs 18 mins
Rating: M
The Gilded Cage
Advance screenings this weekend! Writer/director Ruben Alves’ enormously charming, semi-autobiographical Parisian comedy is the story of a loving, hardworking married couple whose...
Dec 12, 2013
Director: Ruben Alves
Running Time: 1hr 31 mins
Rating: M
Persons of Interest
Both sessions followed by filmmaker Q&As Dec 17: Eps 1&2 - Q&A with Haydn Keenan, Michael Hyde, Arthur Dent (formerly known as Albert Langer). Dec 18: Eps...
Dec 17, 2013
Director: Haydn Keenan
Running Time: 110 mins
Rating: CTC
Personal Tailor - Asia Focus
The Dream Planner (Ge You), the Scenario Designer (Bai Baihe), the Dream Builder (Li Xiaolu), and the Mind Anaesthetist (Zheng Kai) come together to form the company, Personal Tailor. Their...
Dec 19, 2013
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Running Time: TBC mins
Rating: CTC
The Railway Man
Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) is a quiet, middle-aged radio and railway enthusiast. He meets kind, sunny Patti (Nicole Kidman) one afternoon on a Scottish train. A whirlwind courtship and wedding...
Dec 26, 2013
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Running Time: 1hr 50 mins
Rating: CTC
Philomena
Demonstrating his customary flair for extracting brilliant performances and balancing deep pathos with cogent wit, Stephen Frears ( The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons ) directs this wonderful...
Dec 26, 2013
Director: Stephen Frears
Running Time: 1hr 40 mins
Rating: CTC
Drinking Buddies - Exclusive
Luke (Jake Johnson) and Kate (Olivia Wilde) are colleagues at a microbrewery whose flirtation-riddled friendship oozes chemistry. With both in relationships – Luke with Jill (Anna...
Dec 26, 2013
Director: Joe Swanberg
Running Time: 1hr 30 mins
Rating: CTC
Short Term 12 - Exclusive
Passionate and tough, Grace (United States of Tara's Brie Larson, in a star making performance) is a 20-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. A formidable...
Dec 26, 2013
Director: Destin Cretton
Running Time: 1hr 36 mins
Rating: M
August Osage County
An astounding ensemble cast — Meryl Streep, Sam Shepard, Julia Roberts and Juliette Lewis — star in this adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Beverly...
Jan 1, 2014
Director: John Wells
Running Time: 2hrs 10 mins
Rating: CTC
The Book Thief - Author Event Screening
Special event with Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief presented by Cinema Nova and Readings. $35 per ticket – full price $31 per ticket – Cinema Nova Privilege Members,...
Jan 9, 2014
Director: Brian Percival
Running Time: 2hrs 5 mins
Rating: PG
Saving Mr Banks
When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favourite book, P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins," he made them a promise that he didn't realize would take 20...
Jan 9, 2014
Director: John Lee Hancock
Running Time: 2hrs 6 mins
Rating: PG
Her
From the unique perspective of filmmaker Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) comes an original love story that explores the evolving nature—and the risks—of intimacy in the modern...
Jan 16, 2014
Director: Spike Jones
Running Time: 2hrs mins
Rating: CTC
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers’ funny, melancholic elegy to early 1960s folk music is as cinematically nimble as it is musically rich. Shambolic and self-absorbed, Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is a penniless...
Jan 16, 2014
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Running Time: 1hr 45 mins
Rating: MA15+
The Great Beauty
A darling of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Paolo Sorrentino’s ( This Must Be The Place ) The Great Beauty plunges into the world of the charismatic 65-year-old Jep Gambardella...
Jan 23, 2014
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Running Time: 2hrs 22 mins
Rating: MA15+
12 Years a Slave
Director Steve McQueen follows the acclaimed Hunger and Shame with this shocking, based-on-fact story of a 19th-century free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. The...
Jan 30, 2014
Director: Steve McQueen
Running Time: 1hr 53 mins
Rating: CTC
The Past
Straight from its Competition berth at Cannes, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's much-anticipated follow-up to A Separation , his Oscar and Golden Bear prize-winning masterpiece, is a...
Feb 6, 2014
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Running Time: 2hrs 10 mins
Rating: CTC
Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto star in director Jean-Marc Vallée’s ( The Young Victoria, C.R.A.Z.Y. ) take on the true story of accidental AIDS activist Ron...
Feb 13, 2014
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Running Time: 2hrs mins
Rating: CTC
All is Lost
Tour de Force doesn’t even come close to describing Robert Redford’s performance as the only character in J.C. Chandor’s remarkable survival film. In arguably his most demanding...
Feb 13, 2014
Director: J.C. Chandor
Running Time: 1hr 46 mins
Rating: M
Blue is the Warmest Colour
In Abdellatif Kechiche’s passionate and deeply moving love story, newcomer Adele Exarchopoulous in a star-making role is Adele, a naïve and idealistic young woman with hopes to...
Feb 13, 2014
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Running Time: 2hrs 53 mins
Rating: CTC
Le Weekend
Director Roger Michell's Le Weekend stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as Nick and Meg, a British couple celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary with a weekend getaway in Paris. As...
Feb 20, 2014
Director: Roger Michell
Running Time: tbc mins
Rating: CTC
Nebraska
On the outskirts of Billings, Montana, an old man named Woody (Bruce Dern) is picked up by the roadside. He is going for a long walk, to Lincoln, Nebraska where he believes a million dollar prize...
Feb 20, 2014
Director: Alexander Payne
Running Time: 1hr 55 mins
Rating: M
Wadjda
Meet Wadjda, a sarcastic, funny and streetwise ten-year-old girl whose unconventionally carefree demeanor not only sets her apart from most girls in her school but also frequently lands her in the...
Feb 20, 2014
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Running Time: 1hr 40 mins
Rating: PG
Tracks
Starring Mia Wasikowska ( Jane Eyre ) and Adam Driver (HBO’s Girls, Inside Llewyn Davis) and directed by John Curran (The Painted Veil), Tracks is based on the inspirational and iconic...
Mar 6, 2014
Director: John Curran
Running Time: tbc mins
Rating: CTC
Hamlet - NT50 Encore
National Theatre Live’s 2010 production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Following...
Richard II - The Royal Shakespeare Company
William Shakespeare’s Richard II has been captured live from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s sellout London production (the fastest selling show in the RSC’s history!). David...
50 Years On Stage
A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME PERFORMANCE DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS HYTNER captured live and screened in high definition. Featuring: Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch ,Ralph...
One Life
Celebrating the journey that all living things take; from the moment they are born to that most important achievement, their vital goal: the happy and successful delivery of youngsters of their...
Persons of Interest
Both sessions followed by filmmaker Q&As Dec 17: Eps 1&2 - Q&A with Haydn Keenan, Michael Hyde, Arthur Dent (formerly known as Albert Langer). Dec 18: Eps...
The Bolshoi Ballet - Sleeping Beauty
Based on Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty first premiered in 1890. Marius Petipa’s masterpiece is one of the most popular and accomplished choreographic works in...
The Book Thief - Author Event Screening
Special event with Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief presented by Cinema Nova and Readings. $35 per ticket – full price $31 per ticket – Cinema Nova Privilege Members,...
Coriolanus
National Theatre Live will screen the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge, with Tom Hiddleston (The...
NT Live: National Theatre's War Horse
The National Theatre’s original stage production of War Horse, Captured Live in HD from London’s West End. Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, War Horse has...
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