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Tuesday, 29 July 2025
MOVIE EPIC! Arguably one of the greatest films ever made, fifty years ago director Stanley Kubrick released his ground-breaking sci-fi epic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. To celebrate this momentous anniversary, this seminal classic is being re-released fully restored so a new generation of cinema goers can discover a screen experience unlike any other. On a mysterious mission in outer space, astronaut Dr Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) finds himself in a battle of man against machine with the ship’s sinister computer HAL… and that’s just the beginning this this ultimate cinematic journey through time and space. Please note, this film is presented without an intermission.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. From visionary director Benedict Andrews, this acclaimed production was filmed live during a sold-out run at the Young Vic Theatre in 2014.
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
MOVIE EPIC! James Cameron’s classic 1989 sci-fi epic returns to the big screen fully restored. The crew of an experimental, high-tech submersible is called into action to investigate a mysterious nuclear submarine crash. A series of strange encounters leads the crew to suspect the accident was caused by an extraterrestrial craft, and that they may be participating in an encounter with an alien species.
Monday, 14 July 2025
Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) lives in Paris, and in a world of her own. Introverted, but with a very extroverted imagination, Amelie is obsessed with the small pleasures of life and believes she can orchestrate the fate of others by affecting the slightest changes in their environment. So she sets out to give the lonely and unloved a new lease of life, taking some time to enjoy skimming stones and planning to win the heart of Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz). Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, his incomparable visionary style captures the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingénue. French language, English subtitles
Thursday, 21 August 2025
25TH ANNIVERSARY! A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Thursday, 30 January 2025
Despite the risk and prejudices, a very successful CEO begins an illicit affair with her much younger intern.
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Richard Linklater's first two installments of the 'Before Trilogy' return to the screen for a romantic double feature. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet on a train journey across Europe before spending one evening together wandering the streets of Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together... Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other once more on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.
Thursday, 05 June 2025
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Director Todd Haynes' Oscar nominated romantic drama starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Carrie Brownstein and Sarah Paulson returns to the screen due to popular demand. Therese Belivet (Mara) works as a sales clerk in a popular Manhattan department store. Dreaming of a more fulfilling life, Therese meets Carol (Blanchett) - a confident woman trapped in a loveless marriage of convenience. Immediately drawn to Carol, Therese begins an intense journey of self-discovery as Carol exposes her to a love and passion never before experienced. Adapted from the novel ‘The Price of Salt’ by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley), CAROL is a powerful romance fuelled by the suspense, danger and exhilaration of forbidden love.
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
DOUBLE BILL! Humphrey Bogart stars in two of the greatest films of the 20th century, CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON. A cynical expatriate American cafe owner (Bogart) struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Starring Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Conrad Veidt. Directed by John Huston, San Francisco private detective Sam Spade (Bogart) takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. Starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet and Gladys George.
Thursday, 16 October 2025
40TH ANNIVERSARY! Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.
Thursday, 10 July 2025
40TH ANNIVERSARY! A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
30TH ANNIVERSARY! Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). Together, the threesome embark on a sex-and-violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickie marts.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary. A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health. This fly-on-the-wall documentary offers both a deeply personal insight into one artist's life through the act of creating and an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved when working together.
Saturday, 05 July 2025
A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
DOUBLE BILL! A Matthew Broderick double feature featuring the star in two of his most iconic roles. Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day journey through the streets of Chicago. On Ferris' trail is high school principal Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), determined to catch him in the act. Alexander Payne directs one of the finest political satires of modern times, ELECTION. Matthew Broderick stars as high school teacher Jim McAllister. Having not quite lost his passion for teaching, the unopposed campaign of over-achieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) to become Class President causes McAllister to intervene. Recruiting a popular jock (Chris Klein) to run against Tracy for the greater good of the democratic process, what should have been a valuable learning experience spirals out of control in unforeseeable ways.
Thursday, 24 July 2025
Based on Niall Williams' best-selling novel. Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Based on the bestselling novel, writer and teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) bequeaths her his beloved Great Dane, Apollo. The regal yet intractable dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life in this story of healing, love, and friendship. THE FRIEND stars Academy Award nominees Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, and a 150-pound Great Dane named Bing making his big screen debut.
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Chef Obana (Takuya Kimura), acclaimed in Japan for his spectacular cuisine, opens a restaurant in Paris with the goal of being awarded a third Michelin star. Facing questions about whether he and his team are up to the city's standard for fine dining, Chef Obana discovers he is seen as an outsider that is not deserving of the highest quality ingredients. When a gala dinner proves to be a disaster, Obana questions the dedication of his team before realising he must revisit every aspect of his approach if he is to realise his dream. A blockbuster hit in Japan, GRAND MAISON PARIS is an entertaining and mouthwatering culinary drama from director Ayuko Tsukahara. Japanese, French language, English subtitles.
Saturday, 05 July 2025
Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film revolves around teenager Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) as she pursues stardom as a dancer. Also starring Sonny Bono, Debbie Harry, Divine and Jerry Stiller.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
HANS ZIMMER & FRIENDS: DIAMOND IN THE DESERT captures an extraordinary live performance of some of Zimmer's most revered compositions, including music from Dune, Gladiator, Interstellar, The Lion King, and much more. Decades of cinematic masterpieces are brought to life by his band and a world-class orchestra at Dubai's iconic Coca-Cola Arena and beyond. From the dunes of the Arabian Desert to the heights of the Burj Al Arab, these performances deliver an intimate and unique experience of Zimmer’s most loved and renowned movie soundtracks. Featuring conversations with Billie Eilish, Sir Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Finneas, Jerry Bruckheimer, Johnny Marr, Pharrell Williams, Tanya Lapointe, Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, the film offers viewers a rare glimpse into Zimmer's creative process, exploring the drive to create and stories behind his closest collaborations. Jerry Bruckheimer serves as Executive Producer. Directed by Emmy-winning and multi-Grammy-nominated Paul Dugdale, this film captures the magic and storytelling power of Zimmer’s music in an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Friday, 06 June 2025
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Friday, 05 September 2025
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind 'Prima Facie'. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright? Writer Suzie Miller, director Justin Martin, and composer Self Esteem, reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.
Thursday, 21 August 2025
Follows the life of a Polish nurse Irene Gut Opdyke who was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal for showing remarkable courage in her attempt to save Polish Jews during World War II.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
A desperately single bookseller, lost in a fantasy world, finds herself forced to fulfil her dreams of becoming a writer in order to stop messing up her love life.
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
DOUBLE BILL: Demonic Double! Join us to watch cult classics JENNIFER’S BODY and the 1992 film BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER on the big screen. The unapologetically campy and queer horror film starring Megan Fox as a high school student turned demon is one of the biggest cult classics of the 21st century and is now returning the big screen in this back to back screening! Before the hit 90s TV show, there was a 1992 film bringing Buffy to life. Watch the original Buffy Summers as she learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.
Thursday, 21 August 2025
A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Written and directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Lauren LaVera, Karen Gillan, Matthew Lillard, Harvey Guillén, David Dastmalchian, Mia Sara, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Q'orianka Kilcher, Jacob Tremblay.
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
A charming portrait of brother-duo Mic and Jim Conway’s passionate journey from humble Jellybean Jug Band to now famed Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, WHOOPEE BLUES is a much-needed showcase of Australia’s music history.
Saturday, 05 July 2025
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.
Saturday, 07 June 2025
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
Thursday, 10 July 2025
The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this Renaissance giant? Michelangelo’s genius is evident in everything he touched. Beautiful and diverse works such as the towering statue of David, the moving Pietà in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter and his tour-de-force, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, still leave us breathless today. Spanning his 88 years, Michelangelo: Love and Death takes a cinematic journey through the print and drawing rooms of Europe through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican to seek out a deeper understanding of this legendary figure’s tempestuous life, his relationship with his contemporaries and his incredible legacy. Through expert commentary, stunning visuals and Michelangelo’s own words, this film takes a fresh look at a master artist whose life and genius are celebrated in every mark he made. Returning to cinemas in 2025 to celebrate the 550th anniversary of this iconic artist’s birth.
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
WINTER SOLSTICE SCREENINGS! Written and directed by visionary filmmaker Ari Aster (Hereditary) comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. A young American couple, Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor), are on the brink of their relationship falling apart when they travel to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled midsummer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult; turning a pastoral paradise into a disturbing nightmare that they can’t wake up from.
Thursday, 26 June 2025
40th ANNIVERSARY! Years ahead of its time, Stephen Frears (The Crying Game) directs Daniel Day Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in a romantic comedy-drama written by Hanif Kureishi. Named one of the Best British Films of the 20th Century, it was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award. Omar is an ambitious Pakistani Briton trying to make it on his own. Becoming increasingly cynical about British society thanks to his father's dissatisfaction with the world, Omar's uncle presents his nephew with the opportunity to manage a run-down laundrette. Attacked late one night by a street gang, Omar recognises their leader is his childhood friend Johnny. Offering Johnny a job at the laundrette, their friendship is rekindled in unexpected ways.
Friday, 20 June 2025
Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage.
Friday, 04 July 2025
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
DOUBLE BILL! Dive into Hayao Miyazaki’s magic with this fantasy adventure double feature of anime classics PRINCESS MONONOKE and NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND. While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse. To find the cure that will save his life, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit's realm where he meets Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by wolves. It's not long before Ashitaka is caught in the middle of a battle between iron-ore prospecting humans and the forest dwellers. Far in the future, after an apocalyptic conflict has devastated much of the world's ecosystem, warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä, under the guidance of the pensive veteran warrior, Lord Yupa, must fight to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. Japanese language, English subtitles.
Thursday, 31 July 2025
40TH ANNIVERSARY! In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him. Japanese language, English subtitles.
Thursday, 09 October 2025
40TH ANNIVERSARY! The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the tyrannical rule of evil Queen Gedren.
Friday, 06 June 2025
Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM first screened at Cinema Nova in February 2010, where it has since become a cult-favourite, expanded into other Australian states, been introduced by co-star and bestselling author Greg Sestero on countless occasions, and adapted into an Oscar nominated 'making of' comedy/biopic. It is the most outrageous cinema experience you’ll ever have and is like no other film you have ever seen. Written by, directed by and starring the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau, this misguided disaster-piece has garnered a massive cult following the word over, leaving audiences stunned and wondering “how can so bad, be so good?” Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) seems to have it all - a beautiful fiancée, Lisa, great friends and a job with a promotion in the works. But Lisa (Juliette Danielle) isn’t who she seems. Manipulative and restless, Lisa sets her sights on Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and they start a torrid affair that soon causes Johnny’s perfect world to crumble. THE ROOM is an audience interactive event complete with a Room Guide, loud cheering, quoting along lines, yelling at the screen and throwing LOTS of (eco friendly) spoons at the screen. Please note that it is a condition of entry to all sessions of THE ROOM that bags must be presented for inspection if requested.
Thursday, 24 July 2025
30TH ANNIVERSARY! This exceedingly handsome Jane Austen adaptation was scripted by actor Emma Thompson and was the first feature directed by Ang Lee outside his native Taiwan. The impeccable cast includes Thompson herself, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The older two daughters are the title opposites.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
Thursday, 04 September 2025
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on - for everyone around her, at least.
Sunday, 13 July 2025
Melbourne based STELARC burst into prominence in the early 1970s with a series of confronting, and outrageous public art performances. Following his mantra that ‘the body is obsolete’ the Cypriot born Australian set about proving his theory by testing the limits of his own body in a series of death-defying stunts. STELARC creativity over the decades has ranged across the arts, sciences and robotics. This is a bio pic about a lively, articulate character with a demonic laugh and a presence that fills the screen.
Thursday, 03 July 2025
30TH ANNIVERSARY! Lenny (Ralph Fiennes), a former cop, faces dangerous challenges when he finds out that Jeriko, a political activist, was murdered by a group of Los Angeles police officers.
Thursday, 31 July 2025
A couple's move to the countryside triggers a supernatural incident that drastically alters their relationship, existence, and physical form.
Thursday, 17 July 2025
35TH ANNIVERSARY! In the 1990 science fiction film TOTAL RECALL, Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) seeks virtual vacation memories of Mars. Unexpectedly, he is forced to travel to Mars in real life to uncover a conspiracy about his past. The film explores themes of identity, memory, and the nature of reality.
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
DOUBLE BILL! Before Kristen Stewart was an indie darling and Robert Pattison donned the Batsuit, the pair were catapulted to fame in the cultural sensation that launched a thousand half-hearted supernatural romances: the TWILIGHT saga! Springing onto the scene with low hopes, a modest budget and a shitton of blue colour grading, 2008’s TWILIGHT reminds us that teenagers have a lot of feelings. Indie auteur Catherine Hardwicke lends this tale of teen vampire love all the teen angst and gothic melodrama it rightfully deserves – and she also scores a vampire baseball montage to Supermassive Black Hole. Dracula could never. Bella’s back, but blue is out – things get earthy as the Cullens skip town and our heroine seeks comfort in her uncomplicated, totally platonic friendship with the suddenly-very-buff Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Whoops, wolf’s out of the bag…looks like patronising lectures from spectral visions of her vampiric ex-boyfriend are the least of Bella’s problems. And just when you think the movie’s almost over, get ready for ANOTHER HALF HOUR that includes a trip to Italy, gruesome mass murder, family meetings and Michael Sheen chewing the scenery as the villainous Aro.
Tuesday, 02 September 2025
DOUBLE BILL! "Say, why is it bad luck to kill a gull?" Idiosyncratic director Robert Eggers declared his unique approach to filmmaking with his dread-soaked feature debut The Witch (a breakout Cinema Nova exclusive) in 2015 before hoisting his relentless monochromatic fever-dream The Lighthouse on audiences four years later. In anticipation of his latest assault on the senses, The Northman, we bring Eggers’ cult favourites back to the screen. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star as two lighthouse keepers stationed on a remote island far from home. Each harbouring their own fears and foibles, the elements soon drive them both to the edge of their sanity. Winner of multiple awards, Anya Taylor-Joy (Last Night In Soho) is one of five children who accompany their parents into the seventeenth-century New England wilderness with the hope of making a good Christian home. As their crops fail and a newborn child disappear, the family soon turn on one another.
Thursday, 03 July 2025
A young Mongolian couple's lives are uprooted when climate change forces them to leave their rural home for the city, where they must adapt to an unfamiliar way of life.
