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.
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
50TH ANNIVERSARY! Nominated for six Academy Awards and winning for Best Original Screenplay, Sidney Lumet (Network, Serpico) directs Al Pacino ... more
65TH ANNIVERSARY! Deranged Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) attempts to replace the disfigured visage of his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob) with ... more
RESTORATION! Brutal, uncompromising and stunning, director Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT finds young teacher, John Grant (Gary Bond) arriving in ... more
25TH ANNIVERSARY! The film that's been haunting viewers for 25 years, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM tells the story of four Coney Island people, all haunted and controlled by their addictions. Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of the innate desire that long ... more
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
Akira (Remastered)
Opening Date: Saturday, 3 May 2025
RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in ... more
Spellbound
Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025
80TH ANNIVERSARY! Alfred Hitchcok's six-time Oscar nominated psychological thriller features the timeless and captivating Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. ... more
Three Days of the Condor
Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025
50TH ANNIVERSARY! Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway are captivating in Sydney Pollack's taut paranoia thriller THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. ... more
Dressed to Kill
Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
45TH ANNIVERSARY! Brian De Palma's luxurious erotic thriller DRESSED TO KILL is as stylish as it is nightmarish. When Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), a sex worker, sees a mysterious woman brutally slay homemaker Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), she finds herself ... more
Alphaville
Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025
60TH ANNIVERSARY! Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1965 Berlin International Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard's satirist science fiction-film noir ALPHAVILLE is back with a newly released restoration! ... more