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RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in a dystopian 2019, Kaneda and his motorbike gang tear through Neo Tokyo - a city divided by growing tensions. When Kaneda’s friend has an accident, he discovers a secret government project - and acquires telekinetic abilities. Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime film has a cult following and now, Neo Tokyo will be truly bursting off the screen. Japanese language, English subtitles.
45th ANNIVERSARY! Ridley Scott’s ambitious modern classic blends science fiction, horror and groundbreaking special effects with a star-making performance by Sigourney Weaver. In the distant future the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo are awakened from cryo-sleep by a distress beacon. Obliged to investigate it's source, they discover the hive of an unknown creature secreted deep within a crashed spacecraft from another world. When an egg containing an ALIEN parasite hatches and attaches itself to a Nostromo crew member, they make the error of attempting to save him.
The improbable story of all-time great Hungarian striker Ferenc Puskas and his time in Australia. Barely able to speak English and comedically overweight, he united and inspired South Melbourne Hellas to a dramatic NSL Championship win in 1991. Eating, drinking, and enjoying himself along the way. His captain and protégé was Ange Postecoglou, now Tottenham manager and one of Australia’s most successful sporting exports. Ange and his Hellas teammates – including Paul Trimboli, Miki Petersen, Gus Tsolakis and Con Boutsianis – light up the screen with their love and appreciation for Puskás and the aura he generated. The film has delighted audiences of all backgrounds. It’s fun and funny, poignant and reverent, and captures a lesser-known side of Melbourne’s history. It’s a sports documentary, but it’s also a film about life in Australia. It’s about immigrant identity and belonging, gluttonous pasta consumption, and the broken window winder in Ange Postecoglou’s Datsun 200B.
Palme d'Or winner, Cannes 2024! From director Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket) comes a screwball romantic comedy with bite. Anora (Mikey Madison), an exotic dancer from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets twenty-one year old Ivan (Mark Eidelshtein), the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. Showing Anora how the 1% live, Ivan makes Anora an offer she cannot refuse. Once the news of their romance reaches Russia, Anora's fairytale is threatened as Ivan's parents travel to New York to straighten out their playboy son.
BJÖRK CORNUCOPIA is a documentary concert film by legendary Icelandic artist Björk, capturing her 2023 performance at Lisbon's Altice Arena during the four yearlong Cornucopia tour. Directed by Ísold Uggadóttir, the film integrates live footage with immersive visuals, and features songs from Björk's albums Fossora (2022), Utopia (2017) and Vulnicura (2015), presented through elaborate stage designs and multimedia elements. Subtitles for all lyrics appear on screen throughout, in Björk’s own handwriting. In addition to the film, Björk released a live album titled Apple Music Live: Björk (Cornucopia), featuring performances from the show. This album is available exclusively on Apple Music. Björk, a Grammy award-winning Icelandic musician, composer, and producer, has had a profound impact on music, art, and culture over her career. She is known for her unique voice and groundbreaking sound, often combining electronic beats with orchestral arrangements, creating complex, emotional, and futuristic music.
From Academy Award® winning director Steven Soderbergh, BLACK BAG is a high-stakes mystery starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan.
Based on the 1958 science fiction classic, director Chuck Russell and screenwriter Frank Darabont reimagine the tale of a squishy yet deadly outer space mass which invades a small town before its citizens and a secretive government science agency race to destroy it. Initially dismissed for being another flick in a long list of teenagers-versus-evil releases of the 1980s, it's since been elevated to cult status by horror fans for it's borderline campiness, Cold War paranoia, gruesome special effects and genuine superiority over the original film.
After searching for her estranged father online, a people-pleasing young woman unexpectedly forms a close bond with a grieving, childless man with the same name as her father on Facebook. Inspired by a true story.
It's ChalaMAY! Cinema Nova celebrates one of the big screen's brightest stars with four flicks from across the oeuvre of Timothée Chalamet. Based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis, Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Challengers) directs Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in a sensuous gothic-romance. Maren (Russell) is separated from her father following an incident that forces them to flee their home in the middle of the night. Meeting the charismatic Lee (Chalamet) while searching for the mother that abandoned her as a child, Maren discovers they share a primal urge they cannot ignore. Embarking on a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them along the back roads of Ronald Reagan’s America, they attract the unwanted attention of others who share their forbidden desires. Winner: Best Director and Best Newcomer at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.
ChalaMAY! Nova’s KC remembers: “It was the night after the opening of the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival. Entering the Comedy Theatre I was pulled aside by a member of the Sony team so they could introduce me to director Luca Guadagnino, who was a guest of the fest. Thrown by the immediacy of the moment we spoke briefly about his prior films I Am Love and A Bigger Splash. He was a shy and humble man but genuinely warm and happy to chat. Taking my seat, I couldn’t have anticipated what was to come. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME moved me to my core; a sweeping queer romance that captured the thrill and emotion of first love. A star-making performance by Timothee Chalamet, career-best support by Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg, sunny Italian settings and nostalgic needle-drops combined to create sublime cinema. Giving the film a standing ovation as tears flowed, a post-movie wine with the studio locked in how we’d approach the release at Cinema Nova. Kicking off with a ‘Peach Party’ premiere screening, the film played all the way through the award season where it was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Cinema Nova’s audience embraced the film so thoroughly that the theatre out-grossed not only entire countries but whole continents. To this day I still get a chill when I think about the film, and it’s success is a career highlight.” Directed by Luca Guadagnino and based on Andre Aciman’s romantic novel, during the summer of 1983 precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Chalamet) is spending his days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendour of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. Co-written by James Ivory, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is a towering work of queer cinema; romantic, sensuous and utterly gorgeous. Some Italian, French language, English subtitles
An ample cat colony inhabits a Shinto shrine. Residents care for them; others disturbed by the mess. Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda observes their coexistence.
Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Conclave is set in the secretive Vatican meeting of Catholic cardinals who gather in Rome to pick a new Pope. Fiennes plays Cardinal Lomeli, tasked with overseeing the Cardinals arriving from across the globe to join the Conclave. But as the political machinations inside the Vatican intensify, Lomeli realizes that the departed Pope had kept a secret from them that he must uncover before a new Pope has been chosen. Various languages, English subtitles.
While covering the news desk in Cairo for a colleague over the Christmas holidays, Australian journalist Peter Greste (Richard Roxburgh) is arrested and accused of terrorism. He has become a pawn in the middle of a deadly game full of corrupt officials and ancient rivalries. Now the subject of his own worldwide news story, with only his wits and unlikely allies keeping him alive, Greste’s very survival means staring down a brutal regime. THE CORRESPONDENT is a gripping thriller and a compelling true story about the relentless defence of the truth and triumph of the human spirit.
Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s thrilling new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic adventure THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, the first French cinematic treatment of the iconic tale of romance and redemption in over fifty years. Marseille, 1815. The dreams of principled young sailor Edmond Dantès (Niney) are about to come true; promoted to ship’s captain, he can finally marry the love of his life, Mercédès (Anaïs Demoustier). But his success inspires jealousy… betrayed by his rivals, Dantès is denounced as a member of a pro-Napoleon conspiracy, and incarcerated without trial in an isolated prison. After years of solitude, Dantès befriends the inmate in the adjacent cell, Abbé Faria (Pierfrancesco Favino), who reveals the location of a hidden treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. An extraordinary plan is hatched to exact revenge on the three men who wronged him: assuming multiple identities – “the Count of Monte Cristo” among them - Dantès will first court his enemies, and then seek retribution…
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
Dale Frank, a painter known for his irreverent and vulnerable style, faces a whirlwind of tasks, preparing for an exhibition, fulfilling overseas commissions, restoring a mansion, establishing a botanical garden, and managing pain.
A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
45TH ANNIVERSARY! A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
RESTORATION! In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.
As Jane prepares to leave a police flat where she was born and raised, she starts to reflect on old memories including a painful story of love and intimacy lost between a handsome young policeman and Ann, the ambitious older girl Jane once secretly loved. These memories bring to light past secrets Jane has never told anyone. Thai language, English subtitles.
Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.
Frankie, a young mother with dyschronometria, struggles to perceive time. Using cassette tapes for guidance, she takes a risky job from a mysterious woman to support her family, unaware of the dark consequences that await.
A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful people, each representing a planet in the Solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.
It's ChalaMAY! Cinema Nova celebrates one of the big screen's brightest stars with four flicks from across the oeuvre of Timothée Chalamet. Making its debut at SXSW in 2017, Elijah Bynum directs Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe and William Fichtner in a coming-of-age crime thriller about a sheltered teen (Chalamet) who discovers a way to get rich quick during a wild summer in Cape Cod. Set in 1991 and shot-thru with a neon hue that would become a signature of the film’s US distributor A24, HOT SUMMER NIGHTS is an energetic pulp obscurity that showcases Chalamet on the cusp of becoming a major movie star.
From director Trey Edward Shults (Waves, It Comes At Night) comes a fever-dream warning about the trappings of fame, starring Abel Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd), Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. Struggling with a stadium tour schedule that has merged one city into another, a popular musician becomes convinced his voice is failing and that his manager is only concerned about keeping him on the road. Seeing a sympathetic stranger in the crowd in the midst of a concert that goes awry, he disappears into the night with her.
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's best-selling memoir in which his mother is forced into activism when her husband was captured by a military regime in Brazil, 1964.
Follows the life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush.
It's ChalaMAY! Cinema Nova celebrates one of the big screen's brightest stars with four flicks from across the oeuvre of Timothée Chalamet. Greta Gerwig’s impressive directorial debut stars Saoirse Ronan as a seventeen-year-old desperate to escape the mundane surrounds of her small Californian town. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Ronan) dreams of attending university on the American east coast, mostly to frustrate her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), and sets about reinventing herself by hooking up with two very different boys (Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet).
A seasoned showgirl must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.
The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud (Agnes O’Casey, The Miracle Club) - just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father, and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the ways of society, and vulnerable. The wolves begin to circle… In a bewildering turn of events, Uncle Silas (David Wilmot, The Guard) is revealed as Maud’s guardian in her father’s will. A pariah of ‘society’, he is infamous for being a callous and uncaring man. Silas is furious at being denied his ‘rightful’ inheritance, and in a world designed to constrain women, deploys society’s most underhand weapons to bend Maud to his will. As family secrets are uncovered, Maud discovers and reclaims her fledgling independence. Lies We Tell is a chilling and atmospheric gothic tour de force, featuring a star making turn from Agnes O’Casey.
Follows the life story of the world's greatest opera singer, Maria Callas, during her final days in 1970s Paris.
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life. From Academy Award® winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, MEMOIR OF A SNAIL is a poignant, heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.
Adapted from the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, this stars Robert Pattinson as an "expendable" - a disposable crew member on a space mission, selected for dangerous tasks because he can be renewed if his body dies, with his memories largely intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong.
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions. French language, English subtitlles.
Follows the beginnings of the iconic French-Armenian singer, songwriter and actor, Charles Aznavour, from zero to fame. Some French and Armenian language, English subtitles.
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
After seven decades filming every aspect of the natural world, David Attenborough delivers his greatest message of hope in a spectacular new film, OCEAN with David Attenborough, a Global Cinema Release from 8 May, David Attenborough’s 99th birthday. The powerful documentary takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. In the film the celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing. Stunning, immersive cinematography showcases the wonder of life under the seas and exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean as never-before-seen, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching. Yet the story is one of optimism, with Attenborough pointing to inspirational stories from around the world to deliver his greatest message: the ocean can recover to a glory beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen.
Starring Oscar nominee Steve Coogan, this poignant dramedy from director Peter Cattaneo follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.
Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix in addition to Best Actress and Best Actor for stars Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel, Michale Haneke directs a psychological drama of a young man who descends into a masochistic and highly sexual relationship with his piano teacher. French and German language, English subtitles.
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee (Daniel Craig), an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. The arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.
An honest and life-affirming true story of the healing power of the natural world.
In Britain’s post-punk Thatcher years, the infamous and legendary Scala cinema showed a diverse range of films, from high art to cult classics, sexploitation, horror, Kung-Fu and LGBTQIA+. Nudging boundaries of convention, it became an inspiration for future famous creatives. With interviews from nearly 50 contributors, previously unseen archive footage and film clips, Scala!!! is an anarchic, uproarious documentary telling the riotous inside story, with an original soundtrack by celebrated musician Barry Adamson. Transcending nostalgia, Scala!!! is a universal testament to the power of cinemas, providing refuge and community for outsiders. A place where everyone is welcome.
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble. Persian lagnauge, English subtitles.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
In 1985 devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own.
After 20 years on the run overseas, small-time ex-criminal Johnny Spitieri (Spit) slips back into Australia on a false passport only to find himself locked up in an Immigration Detention Centre with a massive target on his back as old enemies come looking for him, determined to settle old scores. As he struggles to stay one step ahead, the resourceful Spit finds new friends in detention, teaching them his version of mateship, and what it means to be truly Australian.
When a man returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local group of surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.
The result of a 10 year collaboration from ex-Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke, electronic music legend Mark Pritchard, and Australian multi-disciplinary artist Jonathan Zawada, known for his stunning visuals working across traditional gallery spaces, music videos and major cultural festivals like Coachella, TALL TALES is both a visual album and fairy tale for the modern world, depicting rising tides, kings and queens, amazon logistics and robotic arms under iridescent skies, intertwined with Thom’s echoed chants and Mark’s shimmering electronics.
Packed with exuberant sets, stunning shots, stirring, unforgettable performances and a stirring soundtrack, Wisit Sasanatieng's Thai 'western' pays homage to the genre while lovingly parodying it at the same time. Thai language, English subtitles
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
50TH ANNIVERSARY! A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Mareta, grieving her daughter's death in the Christchurch quakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite school. Unexpectedly, she discovers students lacking guidance and care, prompting her to provide inspiration and support.
January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown.
Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor
ENCORE SEASON! Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens' (Th Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions. Filmed live during its sold out run in London's West End, Vanya will be playing exclusivly in cinemas in 2024.
RESTORATION! Brutal, uncompromising and stunning #WakeInFright tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub... However, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left... There is no Australian film quite like Wake in Fright. Nominated cinema's ultimate prize, the Palme d'Or, at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival and still as raw and fresh today as it was then, rediscover this lost cinematic masterpiece.
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her wife Lee's expensive IVF. Their plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet to celebrate their nuptials. THE WEDDING BANQUET is a joyful, exuberant and fresh take on the romantic comedy genre featuring an acclaimed and hilarious cast of multigenerational talent, led by Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Bowen Yang (Wicked).