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
G'DAY MAY! Four friends leave their share house to explore the pool rooms, drag shows and bars of Sydney before crash-landing in Bondi. It’s the night before Karli goes to New York and the lives of this tight knit group will change to forever after a ... more
PRIDE MONTH EVENT SCREENINGS! A star-making performance by Timothee Chalamet, career-best support by Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg, sunny Italian ... more
Bound
Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Jun 2026
30TH ANNIVERSARY! Before The Matrix, the Wachowski’s made their debut with the erotically charged crime caper BOUND, starring Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, and Christopher Meloni. When Violet (Tilly), the girlfriend of violent mobster Cae ... more
Tokyo Story
Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Jul 2026
RESTORATION! An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When ... more
Kiki's Delivery Service
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026
RESTORATION! From the legendary Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki comes "Kiki’s Delivery Service", the beloved coming-of-age story of a ... more
Highlander
Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026
40TH ANNIVERSARY! Initially a box office bomb which was later discovered by audiences on home video, Christopher Lambert stars as ... more
Tokyo Drifter
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
60TH ANNIVERSARY! Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo (Tetsuya Watari) is free of his bloody life after his boss decides to dissolve ... more
Le Samouraï
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jul 2026
RESTORATION! A classic staple of French noir, LE SAMOURAÏ follows the enigmatic Jef (Alain Delon) after he’s witnessed carrying out ... more
Blue Velvet
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 2026
A psychological horror starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern, David Lynch's acclaimed 1986 neo-noir has been called 'a masterpiece' by both fans and critics. The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads ... more
Boogie Nights
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026
25th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING: Everyone's given one special thing... The adult entertainment industry epic that not only identified director Paul Thomas Anderson ... more
Boyz n the Hood
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Ice Cube (Friday), and Angela Bassett (Strange Days) deliver breakout performances in writer-director John Singleton’s iconic snapshot of gang culture in 1990s Los Angeles. Tre (Gooding Jr.) is sent to live with his fa ... more
