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

Sep 17th, 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

Sep 16th, 2025

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

Sep 17th, 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! One of the most controversial films of all time returns to the screen to shock a whole new ... more

Sep 17th, 2025

65TH ANNIVERSARY! Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray star in Billy Wilder's acclaimed comedy of Manhattan insurance clerk C.C. ... more

Sep 16th, 2025

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Sep 2025

RESTORATION! In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now," his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based o ... more

Sep 18th, 2025

Apocalypse Now Final Cut

Opening Date: Friday, 19 Sep 2025

RESTORATION! Francis Ford Coppola's iconic Vietnam war epic returns to the cinema screen, revisited by the director to create the ... more

Sep 19th, 2025

Sound of Music, The

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

60TH ANNIVERSARY! The hills are alive with the sound of music, and so too are the flats of Carlton – for one night at least! Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in career-defining roles and THAT first shot; you know the drill. A soon-to-be nun, Maria (A ... more

Sep 20th, 2025

Clueless

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! “As if!” snarks Cher with just the right amount of disdain and sardonic eye-roll in iconic film of ... more

Sep 26th, 2025

Dogma

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

RESTORATION! Kevin Smith’s provocative comedy DOGMA was both beloved and hated upon release, immediately becoming a cult favourite and one of Smith’s most appreciated films. When two fallen angels (a charismatic pairing of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) are ... more

Oct 2nd, 2025

Social Network, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

15TH ANNIVERSARY! Continually prescient and timely, David Fincher’s masterpiece only grows in stature and reputation, cementing itself as one of the most important films of the century. ... more

Oct 2nd, 2025

Pinocchio

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

ANNIVERSARY SCREENING: Saturday October 4, 10.40am. These school holidays, join us to celebrate 85 years of this Walt Disney classic - and the long, rich history of Lygon Street’s Italian cultural heritage - with this Anniversary Screening of 1940’s anima ... more

Oct 4th, 2025

Clue

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Jonathan Lynn's (My Cousin Vinny) classic mosaic whodunnit is based on the titular board game, led by the iconoclastic Tim Curry. ... more

Oct 9th, 2025

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! On a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an empty stretch of road outside Ohio's merry Denton, ... more

Oct 16th, 2025

Nightmare on Elm Street 2, A: Freddy's Revenge

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Five years after Freddy Krueger was defeated, teenager Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) and his family move into Nancy ... more

Oct 23rd, 2025

ParaNorman Remastered (2D)

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company ... more

Oct 23rd, 2025

ParaNorman Remastered (3D)

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company ... more

Oct 24th, 2025

Day Of The Dead

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Director George A. Romero returns with the third film in his famed zombie oeuvre, following Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead. Set in Florida, an isolated group of scientists attempt to cure the flesh-eating affliction that h ... more

Oct 30th, 2025

Back to the Future

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

40th ANNIVERSARY! Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend; maverick scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Directed by Robert ... more

Nov 6th, 2025
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