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
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
Mulholland Dr.
Opening Date: Tuesday, 31 Mar 2026
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
Lady Macbeth
Opening Date: Sunday, 5 Apr 2026
10TH ANNIVERSARY! Rural England, 1865. Katherine (Florence Pugh) is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, and his cold, unforgiving family. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate, a fo ... 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
