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.

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

Oct 20th, 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! "You open the beaches on the 4th of July, it's like ringing a dinner bell!". "You're gonna need ... more

Oct 20th, 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

Oct 18th, 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Jonathan Lynn's (My Cousin Vinny) classic mosaic whodunnit is based on the titular board game, led by the iconoclastic Tim Curry. ... more

Oct 18th, 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

Oct 18th, 2025

Nightmare on Elm Street 2: 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

Oct 23rd, 2025

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

Oct 23rd, 2025

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

Oct 24th, 2025

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

Oct 30th, 2025

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

Nov 6th, 2025

Angel's Egg

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! In a submerged city, a young girl continues to care for a large egg that she holds preciously ... more

Nov 13th, 2025

Hidden (Caché)

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY! From multi award-winning filmmaker Michael Haneke (Funny Games, The White Ribbon) comes the classic millennial thriller starring Juliette ... more

Nov 20th, 2025
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