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.

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

Sep 2nd, 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Japanese master Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon) reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a sixteenth-century Japan historical epic. ... more

Aug 27th, 2025

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

Aug 31st, 2025

41st ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION! In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by ... more

Sep 1st, 2025

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

Aug 29th, 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! A teenage hacker finds himself framed for the theft of millions of dollars from a major corporation. Master ... more

Aug 27th, 2025

RESTORATION! From Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, ... more

Aug 28th, 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! “This film, without meaning to, is almost 95% true. Andrew stumbled into the truth,” says the real Chopper ... more

Aug 28th, 2025

Jaws

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Aug 2025

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

Aug 28th, 2025

Burden of Dreams (4K Restoration)

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Aug 2025

RESTORATION! For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and ... more

Aug 28th, 2025

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

Sep 4th, 2025

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

Sep 12th, 2025

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

Sep 18th, 2025

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

Sep 19th, 2025

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

Sep 20th, 2025

Clueless

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! “As if!” snarks Cher with just the right amount of disdain and sardonic eye-roll in iconic film of ... more

Sep 26th, 2025

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

Oct 2nd, 2025
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