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.
40th ANNIVERSARY! A psychological horror starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern, David Lynch's acclaimed 1986 neo-noir has been called 'a masterpiece' by both fans and critics. The discovery of a severed human ear foun ... more
40th ANNIVERSARY! Inspired by Roger Corman's no-budget horror-comedy and based on the smash-hit off-Broadway show, Frank Oz (Muppets Take Manhattan) ... more
PRE-RECORDED EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION with Director, Barry Jenkins, featuring Oscar Nominated composer Nicholas Britell and Oscar winner Mahershala Ali included with all sessions. 10TH ANNIVERSARY! Barry Jenkins’s Academy Award winning coming-of-age drama o ... more
RESTORATION! A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter (Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland) are holidaying in Venice ... more
RESTORATION When Jubei saves a young ninja woman from the unthinkable, he assumes that’s the end of it. To his ... more
Videodrome
Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Oct 2026
RESTORATION! David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME is the director's chilling 1983 body horror exploring 'snuff film' culture during the decade's cable TV ... more
Carrie
Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Oct 2026
50th ANNIVERSARY! Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), a shy, friendless teenager who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother (Piper Laurie), discovers she possesses telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her high school classmates at her senior p ... more
Rocky
Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 2026
50TH ANNIVERSARY! Sylvester Stallone’s career-defining work is an inspiring story of hope, determination, and heart. Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a down on his luck small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed (Ca ... more
Marie Antoinette
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 2026
20TH ANNIVERSARY! An Austrian teenager (Kirsten Dunst) marries the Dauphin (Jason Schwartzman) of France and becomes that country's queen following the death of King Louis XV (Judy Davis) in 1774. Years later, after a life of luxury and privilege ... more
Pan's Labyrinth
Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026
20TH ANNIVERSARY! In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an undergr ... more
Grey Gardens
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2026
RESTORATION! A film as endearing as it is enduring, GREY GARDENS is an iconic and eclectic testament to originality and individualism. In an old decaying mansion in East Hampton reside the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy; a mother and her middle-age ... more
It's a Wonderful Life
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Dec 2026
80TH ANNIVERSARY! Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge ... more
