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.

Flash Gordon

45TH ANNIVERSARY! Mike Hodges (Get Carter) adapts the iconic comic strip of a football player-turned-superhero in a colourful space opera.

Although ... more

Feb 12th, 2025

21:10

Goodfellas

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Feb 2025

35TH ANNIVERSARY! Based on Nicholas Pileggi’s “Wiseguy”, this heart-pumping gangster classic follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in his rise and fall through the ranks of a New York mob. Perhaps the definitive Martin Scorsese picture, GOODFELLAS also features ... more

Feb 13th, 2025

18:30

Picnic At Hanging Rock

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Peter Weir’s 1975 Australian classic returns to the cinema screen. ... more

Feb 22nd, 2025

10:40

Event

Fall, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

RESTORATION! In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, ... more

Feb 27th, 2025

18:50

Event

Darkman

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

35TH ANNIVERSARY! Directed by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead) more then a decade before he changed cinema forever with the release ... more

Mar 6th, 2025

18:45

Event

Dog Day Afternoon

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Mar 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Nominated for six Academy Awards and winning for Best Original Screenplay, Sidney Lumet (Network, Serpico) directs Al Pacino ... more

Mar 13th, 2025

18:45

Event

Eyes Without A Face

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

65TH ANNIVERSARY! Deranged Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) attempts to replace the disfigured visage of his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob) with ... more

Mar 22nd, 2025

15:00

Event

Wake in Fright

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

RESTORATION! Brutal, uncompromising and stunning, director Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT finds young teacher, John Grant (Gary Bond) arriving in ... more

Mar 28th, 2025

18:45

Requiem For a Dream

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

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Apr 3rd, 2025

19:00

Se7en

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Detectives Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and Mills (Brad Pitt), one a seasoned cop, the other a relatively new one, ... more

Apr 10th, 2025

18:40

Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Apr 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY! A musician from San Francisco finds meaning to his life when he starts to care for dozens of ... more

Apr 17th, 2025

19:00

Alien

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Apr 2025

RESTORATION! Original Theatrical Cut re-release! Ridley Scott’s ambitious modern classic blends science fiction, horror and groundbreaking special effects with a ... more

Apr 24th, 2025

18:40