Anniversary Party & Restorations

Experience the best films of decades past with Cinema Nova’s Anniversary Party screenings: a line-up of acclaimed or underrated films celebrating anniversaries  this year. Cinema Nova is your go-to destination in Melbourne for a stimulating selection of retrospectives celebrating the best of cinema on the big screen.

RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in ... more

Jun 18th, 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier ... more

Jun 16th, 2025

Carol

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

10TH ANNIVERSARY! Director Todd Haynes' Oscar nominated romantic drama starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Carrie Brownstein and Sarah Paulson returns ... more

Jun 19th, 2025

My Beautiful Laundrette

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Jun 2025

40th ANNIVERSARY! Years ahead of its time, Stephen Frears (The Crying Game) directs Daniel Day Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in ... more

Jun 26th, 2025

Strange Days

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Jul 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Lenny (Ralph Fiennes), a former cop, faces dangerous challenges when he finds out that Jeriko, a political activist, ... more

Jul 3rd, 2025

Desperately Seeking Susan

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Jul 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Starring Madonna in her first major on-screen role, cult classic DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN is a time-capsule of New York in the 80s. ... more

Jul 10th, 2025

Total Recall

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Jul 2025

35TH ANNIVERSARY! Paul Verhoeven's 1990 science fiction classic TOTAL RECALL stars a dynamite paring of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. ... more

Jul 17th, 2025

Sense and Sensibility

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! The exceedingly handsome SENSE AND SENSIBILITY was scripted by Emma Thompson and was Ang Lee's first English feature. The impeccable cast includes Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant. ... more

Jul 25th, 2025

Ran

Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Japanese master Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon) reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a sixteenth-century Japan historical epic. ... more

Aug 1st, 2025

Chopper

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

“This film, without meaning to, is almost 95% true. Andrew stumbled into the truth,” says the real Chopper Read about ... more

Aug 21st, 2025
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