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