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

Apr 14th, 2025

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

Apr 16th, 2025

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

Apr 15th, 2025

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

Apr 14th, 2025

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

Apr 15th, 2025

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

Apr 14th, 2025

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

Apr 14th, 2025

30th ANNIVERSARY! Michael Mann directs Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in a cat-and-mouse thriller of a master thief who continues to evade arrest by police. As he plans his final heist, a dogged detective gradually closes in on the thief and his gang. ... more

Apr 14th, 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Close to retirement, detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is tackling one final case with the newly transferred Mills (Brad Pitt). Young and naïve, Mills reflects a side of policing far from Somerset’s considered and thorough approach to ... more

Apr 16th, 2025

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

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

Ed Wood

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Tim Burton's Oscar Winning biopic ED WOOD depicts the fantastical life of cult filmmaker, actor, and novelist, Edward Davis Wood Jr. ... more

May 1st, 2025

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

May 3rd, 2025

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

May 8th, 2025

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

May 15th, 2025

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

May 22nd, 2025

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

May 30th, 2025
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