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.
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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
RESTORATION! From Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, ... more
RESTORATION! For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and ... more
50TH ANNIVERSARY! "You open the beaches on the 4th of July, it's like ringing a dinner bell!". "You're gonna need ... more
Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom
Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Sep 2025
50TH ANNIVERSARY! One of the most controversial films of all time returns to the screen to shock a whole new ... more
Apartment, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Sep 2025
65TH ANNIVERSARY! Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray star in Billy Wilder's acclaimed comedy of Manhattan insurance clerk C.C. ... more
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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 ... more
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
Opening Date: Friday, 31 Oct 2025
30th ANNIVERSARY SCREENINGS! From the imagination of Tim Burton comes one of the greatest stop motion animated musicals ever made. ... more
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 ... more
