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Brendan Gleeson is a threatened priest in CALVARY
Delicious romantic drama THE LUNCHBOX
A Most Wanted Man
Based on the novel by John Le Carre (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Philip Seymour Hoffman is outstanding as an undercover German spy in this modern thriller from director Anton Corbijn (Control, The...
Some Velvet Morning - Exclusive
Fred (Stanley Tucci) arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet (Alice Eve) after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects...
These Final Hours
What would you do on the last day on Earth? As a fiery apocalypse bears down on Perth, James ( Wolf Creek's Nathan Phillips) has to make some choices and make his peace with the people...
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Keeper of Lost Causes is a gripping, Danish crime-thriller based on the bestselling Department Q novels by Danish writer Jussi Alder-Olsen.The film stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Angels & Demons) and...
The Selfish Giant
Clio Barnard's acclaimed contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighbourhood,...
The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom
In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. The situation is...
Begin Again
Advance screenings - Friday to Sunday! The latest film from writer-director John Carney (Once), Begin Again is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beautiful...
Snowpiercer - Exclusive
From acclaimed director Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Mother, Memories of Murder), and executive producer Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy), a new sci-fi epic based on the French graphic novel, featuring a...
Once My Mother - Exclusive!
This is the story of two women: Sophia Turkiewicz, an award-winning Australian filmmaker, and her mother Helen. It is a story of survival and forgiveness, and finally a deeply affecting love...
Devil's Knot
Based on the true crime and novel by Mara Leveritt, Devil’s Knot explores the murder and trial of three boys that went missing in Memphis in 1993. The crime brings three teenagers to trial...
Charlie's Country
Winner Best Actor: Un Certain Regard at Cannes (David Gulpilil) Rolf de Heer latest collaboration with David Gulpilil is an honest yet uplifting depiction of modern Australian indigenous...
The French Minister - Exclusive
France’s reigning Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, is a force to be reckoned with, backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity and...
Words and Pictures
Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche star in this playful comic drama about an English teacher who challenges the school’s art teacher to a "war" between words and pictures —...
The Lunchbox
Irrfan Khan (Life Of Pi) gives a moving and thoroughly enjoyable performance as a cantankerous widower in Ritesh Batra's multi award winning romance. Set in modern day Mumbai amongst the...
All This Mayhem - Exclusive
Q&A SCREENING WITH TAS PAPPAS - Tuesday July 29th - 6.45pm. Skateboarding champion and subject of the film, Tas Pappas, joins Nova for a Q&A, following a screening of All This Mayhem....
Calvary
Father James is a good priest, driven by spiritual integrity. One day in confession, an unseen man tells James that he’s going to kill him precisely because he’s done nothing wrong....
Tim's Vermeer - Exclusive!
Tim Jenison, one of the giants of video and post-production software for home computers, is always in search of new projects and simple solutions to apparently complex problems. After he read...
Jersey Boys
From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical “JERSEY BOYS. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in...
Belle and Sebastian
A heart-warming family film that deserves to be seen on the big screen, Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian (an adorable...
Yves Saint Laurent
A powerful and sumptuous look at the life of influential French designer Yves Saint Laurent, from the beginning of his career in 1958 at the house of Christian Dior - where he met his lover and...
The Two Faces of January
Hossein Amini writes and directs this stylish adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Europe-set thriller. Confident American tourist Chester (Viggo Mortensen) and his glamorous younger wife...
Frank
An off-beat comedy about young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhall Gleeson), who discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric band led by the mysterious and enigmatic...
The Trip to Italy
Michael Winterbottom's largely improvised 2010 film, The Trip, took comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (or semifictionalized versions thereof) on a restaurant tour around Northern England....
The Rover
David Michod's highly anticipated follow-up to ANIMAL KINGDOM is set in Australia ten years after the collapse of society. The rule of the law has disintegrated and life is cheap. Hardened...
Under the Skin - Exclusive
Scarlett Johansson stars as a voracious alien seductress who scours remote highways and backroads for human prey, in this sci-fi thriller from director Jonathan Glazer ( Sexy Beast, Birth...
Chef
After talented and dynamic chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) isn't given the space he needs to shine at his L.A. restaurant due to the owner's (Dustin Hoffman) rigid traditional ways, he...
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at the famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (newcomer...
The Babadook
“Do you want to die?!” seven-year-old Samuel asks his stressed-out single mother, Amelia. She wonders if his question is a threat or a warning. After dealing with Samuel’s...
Only Lovers Left Alive - Exclusive
Idiosyncratic indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Ghost Dog) returns with an unconventional tale of undying love between two centuries-old bohemian vampires. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve...
Monty Python Live from London
You can expect a lttle comedy, a lot of pathos, a lot of music and a tiny bit of ancient sex… and maybe some cross dressing. -Monty Python. Comedy greats Monty Python...
Aug 6, 2014
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Running Time: 2hrs 30 mins
Rating: NR
Begin Again
Advance screenings - Friday to Sunday! The latest film from writer-director John Carney (Once), Begin Again is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beautiful...
Bethlehem
Winner of 6 Ophir Awards (Israel’s Oscars) and the FEDEORA award for Best Film (Venice Days). A break out hit on the international film festival circuit in 2013, this debut feature...
Aug 7, 2014
Director: Yuval Adler
Running Time: 99 mins
Rating: M
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Based on the bestselling novel by Richard C Morais, directed by Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) and produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, Helen Mirren stars in the mouth-watering comedy...
Aug 14, 2014
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Running Time: PG mins
Rating: CTC
20,000 Days on Earth
Nick Cave has long been one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in the music and film world. This innovative drama/documentary features Cave as both subject and coconspirator, intimately...
Aug 21, 2014
Director: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Running Time: 95 mins
Rating: CTC
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Allan (played by popular Swedish actor/comedian Robert Gustafsson), is a 100-yearold man with an eventful past who keeps stumbling into extraordinary circumstances. On the eve of his 100th...
Aug 21, 2014
Director: Felix Herngren
Running Time: 114 mins
Rating: CTC
James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D
Q&A advance screening with Co-Writer, Life Support Supervisor and Lead SCuba Diver John Garvin TUESDAY AUGUST 19, 6.45pm! As a boy, Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron dreamed of a...
Aug 21, 2014
Director: John Bruno, Ray Quint, Andrew Wight
Running Time: 90 mins
Rating: PG
In Search of Chopin
After the success of In Search of Mozart ,Beethoven and Haydn, acclaimed director Phil Grabsky will bring to life the music of Fryderyk Chopin, narrated by Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply),...
Aug 21, 2014
Director: Phil Grabsky
Running Time: 112 mins
Rating: CTC
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
Doctor Who makes a spectacular return to the big screen in the feature-length premiere episode of Series 8; Deep Breath. Directed by acclaimed director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field in...
Aug 24, 2014
Director: Ben Wheatley
Running Time: 95 mins
Rating: CTC
CineTrivia - Cinema Nova Film Trivia
Film buffs unite, it’s Cinema Nova’s movie trivia event! Hosted by Lee Zachariah. Join us in the decadent surrounds of Nova’s Bar for a fabulous evening of laughs, drinks, food,...
Aug 27, 2014
Director:
Running Time: approx 2 hours mins
Rating: NR
Locke - exclusive
Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call...
Aug 28, 2014
Director: Stephen Knight
Running Time: 85 mins
Rating: MA
Magic in the Moonlight
Woody Allen follows up the highly acclaimed hits Blue Jasmine and Midnight In Paris with a new romantic comedy featuring a stellar cast including Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish...
Aug 28, 2014
Director: Woody Allen
Running Time: 109 mins
Rating: CTC
Predestination
Australian brothers Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead), working off a short story by American science-fiction writer Robert A Heinlein, adapt a tale of self-destruction that hops back and forth...
Aug 28, 2014
Director: Michael and Peter Spierig
Running Time: 97 mins
Rating: 97.0
Felony
Joel Edgerton scripts and stars in this thriller about a decorated cop whose attempt to hide his complicity in a traffic accident makes him the target of a dogged investigator (Jai Courtney). ...
Aug 28, 2014
Director: Matthew Saville
Running Time: 105 mins
Rating: CTC
Reel Anime - Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
Ticket incldues a limited ediiton poster (strictly while stocks last). Poster will be handed out on entry to cinema. Stunning animation and epic new villains highlight the first new Dragon Ball...
Aug 30, 2014
Director:
Running Time: 85 mins
Rating: PG
What We Do in the Shadows
Wickedly clever and wildly entertaining, the new film from Taika Waititi ( Boy , Eagle vs Shark ) and Jemaine Clement ( Flight of the Conchords ) is a hilarious vampire mockumentary. A New...
Sep 4, 2014
Director: Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement
Running Time: 86 mins
Rating: CTC
Boyhood
Richard Linklater ( Before Sunrise, Before Midnight, Bernie ) one of cinema's most humane filmmakers, made his masterful and emotional Boyhood over short periods from 2002 to 2013. This...
Sep 4, 2014
Director: Richard Linklater
Running Time: 164 mins
Rating: CTC
The Grandmaster - Exclusive
Opening Night: Berlin Film Festival. Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai's acclaimed drama based on Bruce Lee's famous trainer, Ip (Tony Leung), explores the life of an elegant intellectual...
Sep 4, 2014
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Running Time: 109 mins
Rating: CTC
The Immigrant - Exclusive!
From master filmmaker James Gray (Two Lovers, The Yards) comes powerful period drama THE IMMIGRANT, starring Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, Inception), Joaquin Phoenix (Her, The Master) and...
Sep 11, 2014
Director: James Gray
Running Time: 120 mins
Rating: CTC
I Origins - Exclusive
Writer-director Mike Cahill reteams with his Another Earth star Brit Marling for an involving meditation on science versus religion. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt) is a PhD student studying molecular...
Sep 11, 2014
Director: Mike Cahill
Running Time: 113 mins
Rating: CTC
Wish I Was Here
Ten years after the international hit Garden State , Zach Braff returns with his second feature, largely funded through a very successful Kickstarter campaign. Exuding a similar quirky charm as...
Sep 11, 2014
Director: Zach Braff
Running Time: 120 mins
Rating: CTC
Night Moves - Exclusive
One of the most distinctive and talented directors of contemporary American cinema, Kelly Reichardt ( Meek's Cutoff , Wendy and Lucy ; Old Joy ) directs Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard and...
Sep 11, 2014
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Running Time: 112 mins
Rating: CTC
The Infinite Man Q&A
Join director Hugh Sullivan for a Q&A as he discusses his original time-travel comedy/romance, and hit of the SXSW Film Festival, The Infinite Man. Starring Josh McConville (The...
Sep 14, 2014
Director: High Sullivan
Running Time: 85 mins
Rating: M
The Infinite Man - Exclusive
Unanimously acclaimed upon its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, Hugh Sullivan’s independent Australian comedy is a uniquely original travel romance. Control-freak inventor Dean (Josh...
Sep 18, 2014
Director: Hugh Sullivan
Running Time: 85 mins
Rating: CTC
Rock the Casbah
The latest from writer/director Laïla Marrakchi ( Marock ) is a lovingly crafted family drama with a warm sense of humour. The film's ensemble cast includes some of the Middle...
Sep 18, 2014
Director: Laïla Marrakchi
Running Time: 100 mins
Rating: M
Jodorowsky's Dune - Exclusive
The story of legendary cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s staggeringly ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel DUNE. In 1974,...
Sep 18, 2014
Director: Frank Pavich
Running Time: 88 mins
Rating: CTC
The Skeleton Twins
It's easy to see why The Skeleton Twins won the US Dramatic Screenwriting Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It's a fearless, funny drama that isn't afraid to have...
Sep 25, 2014
Director: Craig Johnson
Running Time: 93 mins
Rating: CTC
Land of the Bears (3D)
Brown bears share the screen with the breathtaking vistas of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Guillaume Vincent’s exceptional new documentary. Charting the time between lengthy hibernation...
Sep 25, 2014
Director: Guillaume Vincent
Running Time: 87 mins
Rating: CTC
The Little Death
Actor Josh Lawson ( Anchorman 2 , The Campaign , House of Lies ) brings his comedic skills to bear on his feature-length directorial debut, a funny, honest and moving look at the secret sex...
Sep 25, 2014
Director: Josh Lawson
Running Time: 95 mins
Rating: CTC
Life of Crime - Exclusive
Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins and John Hawkes star in this wildly entertaining caper, adapted from a book by Elmore Leonard, about two ex-cons whose plan to kidnap a real estate developer’s...
Sep 25, 2014
Director: Daniel Schechter
Running Time: 94 mins
Rating: CTC
Obvious Child
Donna Stern is a 27-year-old Brooklyn comedian whose unapologetically lewd, warmhearted wit is pretty irresistible with audiences. When she gets heartlessly “dumped up with” by her...
Oct 2, 2014
Director: Gillian Robespierre
Running Time: 87 mins
Rating: CTC
Force Majeure
When an avalanche comes rumbling toward Tomas and his family in the middle of a skiing holiday, he follows his first instincts and runs – leaving his wife and two children behind. The...
Oct 16, 2014
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Running Time: 118 mins
Rating: CTC
Whiplash
Following it's breathtaking debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Damien Chazelle's drama has exploded into the 2014 Awards Season conversation. Andrew (Miles Teller - Rabbit Hole, The...
Oct 23, 2014
Director: Damien Chazelle
Running Time: 105 mins
Rating: CTC
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
The co-founder of the legendary Studio Ghibli, director Isao Takahata, is perhaps not as well-known as his younger colleague, Hayao Miyazaki. His talents, however, are no less remarkable. In...
Oct 23, 2014
Director: Isao Takahata
Running Time: 137 mins
Rating: PG
For No Good Reason
Most well known for his iconic work with the late Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman is one of the world's most distinctive illustrators. Combining the morbidly satirical with the giddily...
Oct 30, 2014
Director: Lucy and Charlie Paul
Running Time: 90 mins
Rating: M
Finding Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier was a mystery even to those who knew her. A secretive nanny in the wealthy suburbs of Chicago, she died in 2009 and would have been forgotten. But John Maloof, an amateur historian,...
Oct 30, 2014
Director: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Running Time: 83 mins
Rating: PG
Pride
With an award-winning, all-star ensemble cast including Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Andrew Scott and Paddy Considine, PRIDE is an uplifting British comedy drama inspired by a...
Oct 30, 2014
Director: David Livingstone
Running Time: 102 mins
Rating: CTC
The Vatican Museum 3D
WELCOME TO THE GREATEST ART COLLECTION IN HISTORY! Shot in the museum at night, using a mix of native 3D and with the most advanced dimensional techniques ever used in cinema. This will be an...
Nov 8, 2014
Director:
Running Time: Approx 70 mins
Rating: TBA
Winter Sleep - Exclusive
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Winter Sleep is the new film from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ). Inspired by several short stories by Anton Chekhov,...
Nov 13, 2014
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Running Time: 196 mins
Rating: CTC
Frankenstein (Cumberbatch as Creature)
National Theatre Live’s 2011 production of Frankenstein returns to cinemas! Winner: 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. Oscar-winner...
Nov 23, 2013
Director:
Running Time: 2hrs 15 mins
Rating: TBA
Monty Python Live from London
You can expect a lttle comedy, a lot of pathos, a lot of music and a tiny bit of ancient sex… and maybe some cross dressing. -Monty Python. Comedy greats Monty Python...
When I Saw You
Winner of Best Asian Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, Best Arab Film in Abu Dhabi and Palestine's 2013 Oscar Entry, Annemarie Jacir's second feature film is...
James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D
Q&A advance screening with Co-Writer, Life Support Supervisor and Lead SCuba Diver John Garvin TUESDAY AUGUST 19, 6.45pm! As a boy, Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron dreamed of a...
May in the Summer
High off the success of her first book and planning to marry Ziad, her sensible, stable and studious fiancé, May Brennan thinks she has it all. At least that's what she'd like...
Scheharazade's Diary
Filmed during and after a 10-month drama therapy/theatre project set up in 2012 by director Zeina Daccache, this gripping and tragi-comic documentary features women inmates who challenge societies...
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
Doctor Who makes a spectacular return to the big screen in the feature-length premiere episode of Series 8; Deep Breath. Directed by acclaimed director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field in...
Reel Anime - Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
Ticket incldues a limited ediiton poster (strictly while stocks last). Poster will be handed out on entry to cinema. Stunning animation and epic new villains highlight the first new Dragon Ball...
CineTrivia - Cinema Nova Film Trivia
Film buffs unite, it’s Cinema Nova’s movie trivia event! Hosted by Lee Zachariah. Join us in the decadent surrounds of Nova’s Bar for a fabulous evening of laughs, drinks, food,...
The Infinite Man Q&A
Join director Hugh Sullivan for a Q&A as he discusses his original time-travel comedy/romance, and hit of the SXSW Film Festival, The Infinite Man. Starring Josh McConville (The...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Simon Godwin (Associate Director of the Royal Court) makes his RSC debut to direct Shakespeare’s exuberant romantic comedy. This is the first time in 45 years The Two Gentlemen of Verona has...
Medea
Helen McCrory ( NT Live: The Last of the Haussmans, Harry Potter series, The Queen ) returns to the National Theatre to take the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version...
Billy Elliot The Musical
This global stage phenomenon will be broadcast from London’s West End and onto the big screen at Nova. Filmed live on September 28 and screened for one day only. The internationally...
Skylight
Carey Mulligan (The Great Gatsby) and Bill Nighy (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) star in David Hare’s (The Reader, The Hours) Olivier Award winning play. Directed by Academy Award...
Macbeth
For the first time at the Met, Adrian Noble’s chilling production of Verdi’s masterful adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing...
The Vatican Museum 3D
WELCOME TO THE GREATEST ART COLLECTION IN HISTORY! Shot in the museum at night, using a mix of native 3D and with the most advanced dimensional techniques ever used in cinema. This will be an...
Le Nozze di Figaro
Met Music Director James Levine conducts a spirited new production of Mozart’s masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre. Dashing bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast in the title role...
Frankenstein (Cumberbatch as Creature)
National Theatre Live’s 2011 production of Frankenstein returns to cinemas! Winner: 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. Oscar-winner...
Frankenstein (Miller as Creature)
National Theatre Live’s 2011 production of Frankenstein returns to cinemas! Winner: 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. Oscar-winner...
Carmen
Richard Eyre’s mesmerizing production of Bizet’s steamy melodrama returns with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili singing her signature role of the ill-fated gypsy temptress....
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams. Starring Gillian Anderson. Directed by Australia’s own, Benedict Andrews. The fastest-selling production in the Young Vic’s history, Tennessee...
Die Meistersin Von Nurnberg
Back at the Met for the first time in eight years. James Levine returns to one of his signature Wagner works conducting this epic comedy about a group of Renaissance “master singers”...
The Merry Widow
The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and...
Les Contes D'Hoffman
The Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic production of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece. Magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the title role of the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer....
Iolanta & Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle). On the heels of her triumphant Met...
La Donna Del Lago
Met premiere production conducted by Michele Mariotti. Bel canto superstars Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez join forces for this Rossini showcase of vocal virtuosity, set in the...
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar, who sets the action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian village. Marcelo...
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