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.

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

Jul 13th, 2025

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

Jul 12th, 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) is a policeman turned black-market hustler who sells illegal devices that record memories and physical sensations directly from the user’s brain. ... more

Jul 11th, 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 11th, 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

This Is Spinal Tap

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Aug 2025

41st ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION! In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by ... more

Aug 7th, 2025

American Psycho

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Aug 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! Mary Harron’s bloody satire of ’80s New York yuppie culture stars Christian Bale as iconic serial killer Patrick Bateman. A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from h ... more

Aug 7th, 2025

Hackers

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Aug 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! A teenage hacker finds himself framed for the theft of millions of dollars from a major corporation. Master ... more

Aug 14th, 2025

Chopper

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! “This film, without meaning to, is almost 95% true. Andrew stumbled into the truth,” says the real Chopper ... more

Aug 21st, 2025

Jaws

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Aug 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! "You open the beaches on the 4th of July, it's like ringing a dinner bell!". "You're gonna need ... more

Aug 28th, 2025
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