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! Directed by master anime filmmaker Momoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), ANGEL'S EGG is a rediscovered gem of the Japanese animation genre. ... more
25TH ANNIVERSARY! A cult-classic pop-culture satire, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS features an all-star 2000s cast including Rachiel Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Parker Posey, and Alan Cumming, and an infectious original soundtrack. Josie (Cook), Mel ... more
35TH ANNIVERSARY! Jonathan Demme’s iconic, influential, and Best Picture winning THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is as timeless as it is unsettling. Young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is assigned to help find Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith), a miss ... more
Ace in the Hole
Opening Date: Friday, 20 Feb 2026
75TH ANNIVERSARY! Kirk Douglas leads Billy Wilder’s satire ACE IN THE HOLE, a prescient takedown of news culture and our obsession with media frenzies. Chuck Tatum (Douglas) is an apathetic, amoral reporter working for a local newspaper, looking to rekin ... more
Donnie Darko
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Feb 2026
25TH ANNIVERSARY! Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a dysfunctional, upper-middle class family. Gifted with a vivid imagination, Donnie is also a bit strange. Increasingly delusional and aided by an human-sized rabbit that only ... more
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Mar 2026
25TH ANNIVERSARY! Wes Anderson’s breakout hit explores the titular family of Royal (Gene Hackman) and Etheline (Anjelica Huston) Tenenbaum; a family of five that once shone bright. Chas (Ben Stiller) was a real estate mogul in his early teens, Margot (Gw ... more
Dogs in Space
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Mar 2026
40TH ANNIVERSARY! DOGS IN SPACE is an iconic 1986 Australian film set in Melbourne's "Little Band" music scene in 1978. It was directed by Richard Lowenstein (Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand) and starred Michael Hutc ... more
Tales of Hoffmann, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Mar 2026
75TH ANNIVERSARY! A surreal and beautiful musical, THE TALES OF HOFFMANN is Powell and Pressburger at their best. Highly influential for filmmakers like Martin Scoresese and George A. Romeo, this operatic tale of love is a rich and beautifully orchestrate ... more
Blow Out
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Mar 2026
45TH ANNIVERSARY! Brian De Palma’s BLOW OUT stars a career-best John Travolta and Nancy Allen (Carrie) in a political thriller like no other. Jack Terri (Travolta) is a sound recordist for a b-movie studio, recording effects for low-budget horror films. ... more
Knight's Tale, A
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 2026
Led by the eternally charming and commanding Heath Ledger, A KNIGHT’S TALE is a stylised pop-culture heavy interpretation of 14th-century Europe. When his master dies in a jousting tournament, peasant William Thatcher (Ledger), with his friends Roland (M ... more
