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! David Lynch’s Palme d’Or winning mystery. A dark-haired woman named Rita (Laura Elena Harring) is left amnesiac after a car crash on Mulholland Drive, where she wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before taking refuge in an apa ... more

May 4th, 2026

RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in ... more

May 6th, 2026

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

May 6th, 2026

15TH ANNIVERSARY! From director Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) comes the Oscar-winning RANGO. Rango (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary chameleon who, after falling out of his owner’s car, accidentally winds up ... more

May 5th, 2026

KOKO RECOMMENDS! RESTORATION! Nova's Film Club host Koko presents Harmony Korine's directorial debut, which shocked audiences and critics in 1997, two years after Larry Clark's incendiary Kids, written by Korine, took the world by storm. ... more

May 6th, 2026

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

SAVE THE DATE! Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day advent ... more

Jun 5th, 2026

Shortbus

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

20TH ANNIVERSARY! John Cameron Mitchell's SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and ... more

Jun 4th, 2026

Mommie Dearest

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Jun 2026

45TH ANNIVERSARY! The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan ... more

Jun 11th, 2026

Maurice

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

RESTORATION! High Grant, James Wilby, Denholm Elliot, Rupert Graves, Simon Callow and Ben Kingsley star in MAURICE, James Ivory’s prize-winning ... more

Jun 18th, 2026
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