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CONTENTS
Frame by Frame
From anthropomorphic feelings to revisited nightclubs, our winter slate will intrigue

Creative Differences
The price of fame differs for people working across the showbiz spectrum

Rule Britannia
David Stratton hand-picks nineteen of the finest British features ever made

Enlightening Cinema
Three documentaries explore very different forms of modern spirituality

Page Turner
New adaptations of great literary works star actresses on the rise

Whats Old Is New

Essential cinematic icons return in high definition digital

GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
the director live at Nova!

The best wine selection to

be found in a cinema

WOMEN HES

UNDRESSED
Costume designer

ORRY-KELLY
An Australian
Oscar winner
from Hollywoods
golden age is
celebrated in
Armstrongs
enlightening
new documentary

And, YES.
You can take
your drink into
the movie

Cinema
Nova Bar
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DIVERSITY
THE SEASON FOR

he seasoned film-goer will identify that a year is broken up into two parts: Awards
Season and Blockbuster season. Originally Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
diversified the calendar with studio blockbusters occupying our Winter, upscale films
dated in Spring, Oscar contenders opening in Summer and niche entries arriving in
March. Now a longer Blockbuster period runs from March (think: Furious 7) to August
(Guardians of the Galaxy) while awards campaigns now run the gauntlet for the
remaining six months.
For Cinema Nova, winter provides for the opportunity to bring audiences a wide
array of titles that are the antithesis of the big-budget comic book adaptation,
including black comedy WILD TALES, sexy cyber thriller EX_MACHINA and Studio
Ghiblis heartfelt WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE. New releases including Beach Boys biopic
LOVE & MERCY, Muppet tell-all I AM BIG BIRD, Thomas Vinterbergs FAR FROM THE
MADDING CROWD and local documentary WOMEN HES UNDRESSED will only add to
the diversity on offer. Also helping to augment the Cinema Nova line-up will be the
imminent advent of our 16th screen! Expected to open this July, we continue to bring
moviegoers the widest range of quality cinema available in Australia, if not the world.
But dont think youll emerge into the sunlight come Spring; the 2015/16 awards season
promises to be one of the most competitive yet!

From the creator of

the classic Pink Floyd
album comes the
immersive concert
experience, screening
worldwide for one
night only!

Helen Mirren in her multi-award

winning role as Queen Elizabeth II

The
Audience
The smash hit drama from
writer Peter Morgan (The Queen)
and director Stephen Daldry
(Billy Elliot), captured live in HD
during the West End season,
returns to the screen

A must see for fans Rolling Stone

Tickets on sale June 19
Tuesday September 29: 8.00pm Book now!

Season commences July 18

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FRAME BY FRAM
54 The Directors Cut

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n 1998, director Mark Christopher

created a cinematic monument
to the famous New York nightclub
Studio 54, an ostentatious mixture
of Art Deco and plush, frivolous
1970s hedonism and drug-induced
24-hour party people. At the
producers behest, his film was
changed considerably prior to its
theatrical release, with 40 minutes
cut and an extra 25 minutes of
new studio produced material
added including an ending that
differed wildly from the one in the
original screenplay. Now,
seventeen years after the premiere
of the producers version that
tanked horribly at the box office,
for the first time audiences can
finally see the painstakingly
reconstructed original version
telling the story of young, curlyhaired Jersey boy Shane OShea
(Ryan Phillippe) who loses himself
in the bewitchingly glamorous
world of sex, drugs and disco.
Premiering at this years Berlinale,
this 54 is a weightier, darker, more
drug-addled and above all queerer
film. June 11, exclusive MORE

Inside Out (CTC)

The Nightingale

new film from animation

powerhouse Pixar is always
something to look forward to, and
INSIDE OUT represents a return to
form for the studio after rave
reviews from the films Cannes
premiere. We are all ruled by
emotions, and inside ten year old
Rileys mind her dominant
emotion has always been Joy
(voiced by Amy Poehler). But with a
cross-country move and a new
school to deal with, Joy is finding
herself competing for Rileys state
of mind with Sadness (Phyllis
Smith, continuing her delightfully
mopey persona from the US
version of The Office). With Fear
(Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling)
and Anger (Lewis Black) all
running interference, Joy must
find a way for her and Sadness to
find the right balance, or Riley
could descend into emotional
turmoil.
June 18 MORE

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hinas official entry in the Best

Foreign Language category for
the 2015 Oscars, French filmmaker
Philippe Muyl (The Butterfly) tells a
touching tale set mostly in Chinas
picturesque south-western
province of Guangxi. Zhu Zhigen
(Li Baotian) is a widower living a
modest existence in Beijing, across
town from his estranged son
Chong Yi (Hao Qin). When
important business calls Chong Yi
away, he is forced to rely upon his
father to care for his spoilt,
materialistic daughter Ren Xing.
Taking the opportunity to
introduce his grandchild to the
provincial village of his
upbringing, Zhigen and Ren Xing
begin a journey cross-country,
swapping electronic devices and
chauffeured travel for wildlife and
the kindness of strangers.
June 18, exclusive MORE

COMMENCES JUNE 25

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FRAME BY FRAM
Love & Mercy

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egendary producer Bill Pohlad

(Brokeback Mountain, The Tree
Of Life) turns his hand to directing
with an unconventional account of
Beach Boys musician Brian Wilson.
Following the chart-topping
successes of Surfin Safari,
California Girls and Good
Vibrations, Wilson (Paul Dano)
wants to take the band in a new
musical direction. Despite
resistance from band members
and his manager, the musicians
eccentric approach leads to the
recording of Pet Sounds; widely
acknowledged to be amongst the
greatest albums of all time. Years
later, an addled Wilson (now
played by John Cusack) has come
under the medical care of Dr
Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti).
Introduced to Cadillac salesperson
Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth
Banks in an award-worthy
performance), Wilson makes a
connection before revealing the
questionable treatment being
prescribed by the controlling
Dr Landy.
June 25 MORE

Ruben Guthrie

(CTC)

ased on writer/director
Brendan Cowells stage
production, Patrick Brammall stars
in the title role of creative director
Ruben Guthrie, a Sydney ad man
riding high off his latest awardwinning campaign. When drunken
ego lands him in hospital with
broken bones, Rubens exasperated
fianc issues him a challenge: if he
can go a whole year without a
drink, shell give him another
chance. Shining a light onto
Australias drinking culture, Cowell
dares to ask whether we can have
a good time without alcohol, and
whether wed even want to.
Featuring an all-star cast including
Jack Thompson, Robyn Nevin,
Abbey Lee, Alex Dimitriades,
Jeremy Sims and Brenton
Thwaites, RUBEN GUTHRIE was the
opening night selection for the
2015 Sydney Film Festival.
July 16 MORE

Mr Holmes (M)

ir Ian McKellen and his Gods

and Monsters director Bill
Condon reunite with an elegant
adaptation of Mitch Cullins novel,
inspired by Arthur Conan Doyles
legendary Sherlock Holmes. With
England returning to life as
normal after the events of World
War II, the 93 year old detective
(McKellen) returns to his Sussex
farmhouse following a journey to
battle-scarred Japan. The curiosity
of his housekeepers son Roger
(Milo Parker) reveals that Holmes
is revisiting a case that came late
in his career, made famous by Dr
Watsons literary retelling. Costarring Laura Linney, Frances De
La Tour and Hiroyuki Sanada,
Condons acclaimed mystery
brings new dimension to the
detective, as he looks back on
a life which he feels has been
hijacked by imprecise depictions
and assumptions of his
experience.
July 23 MORE

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FRAME BY FRAM
Freedom Stories (PG)

Far From Men (M)

Coming Home (M)

hen talking about refugees

and Australia, most
discussion tends to focus on the
horrors of Australias refugee
policy. But what of those refugees
who do manage to make a home in
Australia? FREEDOM STORIES
focuses on several former refugees
and the lives they have been able
to build since being allowed to
settle here. Many of those profiled
came to Australia around the time
of the Tampa crisis and Prime
Minister John Howards infamous
We will decide speech, and were
only children when they were
exposed to the detention centres
in Woomera or Nauru. Directed by
documentarian Steve Thomas,
FREEDOM STORIES brings to light
the good that these refugees have
brought to their new communities,
and is a call for compassion,
dignity, and giving voice to those
whose stories need to be heard.
July 23, exclusive MORE

f its been far too long since your

last intense Viggo Mortensen fix,
FAR FROM MEN is the film for you.
A gripping tale of morality and
friendship set during the Algerian
War, against an unforgiving
mountainous landscape,
Mortensen stars as Daru, an exFrench army soldier now working
as a schoolteacher in a remote
desert village. Born in Algeria, but
Spanish by lineage, Daru is a man
out of place and time, perceived as
alien by both the locals and
colonisers. Asked to escort a
dissident prisoner (Reda Kateb, of
A Prophet and Zero Dark Thirty)
accused of murder to a regional
police station, Daru reluctantly
agrees, and in the course of the
journey a series of incidents and
revelations will determine where
Darus loyalties truly lie.
July 30 MORE

hinese filmmaker Zhang

Yimou is best known for
opulent visuals, including those
found in martial arts spectacles
Hero and House of Flying Daggers.
In the multi award winning
COMING HOME, set during the
Cultural Revolution, Zhang pulls
back from historical epics to craft
an intimate family drama. Lu
Yanshi (Chen Daoming) has been
imprisoned for twenty years as a
dissident against the Party, leaving
behind his wife Feng Wanyu (Gong
Li) and daughter. Escaping a prison
camp, his return home results in
an incident that causes Feng to
lose much of her memory
including recognition of Lu. What
follows is a touching story of love
defying the odds and rising above
dire political upheaval, as Lu cares
for the love of his life with no
guarantee that she will ever
remember who he is.
July 30, exclusive MORE

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The desire for fame is as old as creativity itself. As the
performing arts were electrified by the creation of recorded
music, cinema and television, fame was amplified and
audiences became larger. This has led to a desire to know
more about those behind the songs, films and shows we hold
dear. Three new documentaries explore the benefits and
trapping of a life in the amplified arts, with each subject
rising to unexpected levels of success during different eras.

ack Kelly left Australia behind

early in the 20th century, bound
for New York with dreams of
becoming a part of the citys
happening arts scene. Hoping to
become an actor, he instead found
work painting nightclub murals
and crafting mens ties with the
help of his roommate Archie Leach.
Eventually gaining work as a
costume designer, Kelly made the
move to Los Angeles to work in the
flourishing motion picture
industry. Changing his name to
Orry Kelly he soon became a
renowned costumer, working on
countless golden age productions
including Busby Berkeleys Gold
Diggers of 1935, The Maltese Falcon,
Casablanca, Some Like It Hot,
Auntie Mame and An American In
Paris. His remarkable career is
documented by filmmaker Gillian
Armstrong (Love, Lust & Lies, Little
Women) in WOMEN HES
UNDRESSED, bringing a uniquely
talented Australian to light.
Revealing a colourful history of

remarkable opportunities and

friendships, Kellys induction into
the rarefied circles of the
Hollywood elite was undercut by a
struggle with alcohol that caused
him the loss of many employers,
friends and lovers.
hen Caroll Spinney suffered
a technical malfunction at
the 1969 Puppeteers of America
festival, little did he know that
Muppets creator Jim Henson was
in attendance. Instead of dooming
his career, Spinneys quick thinking
entertained the audience through
mime, leading to an offer to join
the inaugural season of Sesame
Street. Subsequently performing
the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the
Grouch since 1969, Spinneys iconic
characters have had an impact
upon countless millions of
children. In Dave LaMattina and
Chad N. Walkers expansive
documentary I AM BIG BIRD: THE
CAROLL SPINNEY STORY, the
puppeteer recounts his notable
career including the rocky

beginnings of his most famous

creations, a remarkable journey
into communist China, his close
brush with death aboard the Space
Shuttle Challenger disaster and a
desire to keep wearing the yellowfeathered suit into his 80s. A
delightful journey through pop
culture history, Spinneys
delightfully unaffected personality
will inspire nostalgia within
Sesame Street fans of all ages.
ntroduced to jazz music at a
young age, Amy Winehouse
applied her training to write her
own music at fifteen before she
was signed to Simon Fullers 19
Management only four years later.
Debuting with the jazz influenced
album Frank at age 21,
Winehouses career soared off the
back of platinum sales, multiple
awards and international fame.
Asif Kapadia (Senna) examines the
musicians miraculous rise and
tragic fall in his comprehensive
documentary AMY, fresh from its
celebrated premiere at the 2015

Cannes Film Festival. Practically

devoid of talking heads, Kapadias
meticulously edited film tells
Winehouses story chronologically
through a remarkable assemblage
of home movies, behind the scenes
recordings, television interviews
and paparazzi footage. Through
the words of Amy Winehouse and
the people who played a part in
the various stages of her life, the
mental and physical expectations
thrust upon an artist unprepared
for fame - and the subsequent
open season on her personal life
inflicted by print tabloids, talk
show hosts and her own family is
laid-bare with rare clarity and
respect for its late subject.

AMY (CTC)
July 2 MORE
I AM BIG BIRD:
The Caroll Spinney Story (CTC)
July 9, exclusive MORE
WOMEN HES UNDRESSED (PG)
July 16 MORE

RULE BRITANNIA

oming to Nova in August is David Strattons Great Britain

Retro Film Festival. Featuring films stretching the breadth of
Britains grand filmmaking tradition, from David Lean and Powell &
Pressberger, to the Merchant Ivory team and Danny Boyle, this series sees
the British-born critic bring to audiences the best cinema from his homeland,
all digitally restored and on the big screen where they belong. While David is a
fan of all the films featured, the below is a special selection of those in the
festival he feels are especially worth your notice.
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (1951)
The apotheosis of the Powell-Pressburger
collaboration, this sumptuous filmed version of
Offenbach is a visually exhilarating combination of
opera and ballet, not to mention exceptional
production design. Moira Shearer and Robert
Helpmann are among the talented artists on
screen. This is screening in a newly restored copy.
MORE

THE RED SHOES (1948)

In this masterpiece from the team of Michael
Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Moira Shearer
plays a young ballerina torn between two
controlling men, played by Anton Walbrook and
Marius Goring. Australian Robert Helpmann
makes a memorable on-screen contribution and
the sublime Technicolor photography is by Jack
Cardiff. This is perhaps the greatest of all films
about the world of ballet. MORE

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)

If ever a film demanded to be seen on a big cinema
screen its David Leans great epic about the
extraordinary career of T.E. Lawrence and the shaping of
the post-World War I Middle East. In his first major role,
Peter OToole is a mesmerising Lawrence and the
supporting cast includes Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn,
Claude Rains and Omar Sharif. The film won Oscars for
Best Film, Director, Cinematography (Freddie Young),
Music (Maurice Jarre) and Art Direction. MORE

A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1986)

One of the best of the films made by the team
of James Ivory (director), Ismail Merchant (producer)
and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (writer), this sophisticated
and witty adaptation of E.M. Forsters novel
showcases memorable performances from Maggie
Smith, Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench and Helena
Bonham Carter, with key scenes beautifully filmed in
Florence. MORE

GOSFORD PARK (2001)

Near the end of his career the great American
director Robert Altman made this deliciously
old-fashioned British film based on an original
screenplay by Julien Fellowes. The setting is a stately
home, and the characters, above and below stairs,
are played by a dazzling ensemble that includes
Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emily Watson,
Alan Bates, Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren, Derek Jacobi
and many more. MORE

David Strattons Great Britain Retro Film Festival

commences Thursday August 6 and screens for 2 weeks.
Collect a copy of the full program at the cinema or check
our website. MORE
For more on the impact of digital cinema see page 18

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What is it that lures humans to believe in a higher power,
the universe or, in fact, nothing at all? Three films look at
the notion of faith, doctrine and spirituality and touch
upon this inherent need.

ALKING THE CAMINO: SIX

WAYS TO SANTIAGO is an
award winning film by Lydia B.
Smith, which may even have you
exploring the notion of going on a
pilgrimage yourself. Alex Gibney
continues his controversial
curiosity with GOING CLEAR:
SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF
BELIEF, highlighting the Church's
origins, the history of sciencefiction author (and church
founder) L. Ron Hubbard and the

faiths exponential popularity in

Hollywood. AWAKE: THE LIFE OF
YOGANANDA is a unique biopic
that comes to focus on Hindu
mystic Paramahansa Yogananda,
who brought yoga and meditation
to the West in the 1920s.
For over 1200 years, millions of
people have travelled to northern
Spain to walk the Camino de
Santiago as a pilgrimage for
personal development and
spiritual self enlightenment.

Although originally acknowledged

as purely a Christian pilgrimage,
the Camino now attracts people of
all faiths and backgrounds. This
ambitious journey is known to be
deeply enlightening, spiritually
nourishing, and physically
challenging. As such, were privy
to the personal struggles on and
off the trail in Smiths film; the
ecstasies, pains and revelations
that these modern day pilgrims
encounter along the way.

WALKING THE CAMINO not only

illustrates the utmost importance
that we must each follow our own
path in life; it also encourages and
inspires us to do so
unconditionally.
GOING CLEAR is based on the
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Lawrence Wright's book Going
Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and
the Prison of Belief. Gibney
collaborated with Wright to
explore the book's underlying
theme of "how people become
prisoners of faith in various ways".
The film interviews eight former
members of the Church, shining a
light on how the church cultivates
devotees and what they are willing
to do in the name of religion.
Whether you view Scientology as a
cult that entraps vulnerable and
susceptible people or in a more
positive fashion - as a faith of selfempowerment, the films insights

make for fascinating viewing.

Today in the West, yoga is seen to
be very much about health and
fitness; and yet almost a century
ago, it was first presented to the
West as a religion. Filmed over
three years in over 30 countries,
AWAKE examines Yoganandas life
and his influence on yoga, religion
and science. The film explores why
millions today have turned their
attention inwards in pursuit of
Self-Realisation, largely due to his
teachings, including high profile
musicians, performers and
entrepreneurs such as George
Harrison, Ravi Shankar and Steve
Jobs. Yogananda claimed that
regardless of religious background,
the harnessing of Kriya yoga (the
science of meditation) allows the
human spirit to chart a path
inward, which then connects us
with our own divinity.
Undoubtedly, Yoga is about the

mind and expanding

consciousness, an objective which
is ever-present today. Indeed,
scores of people strive to realize
and express more fully in their
lives the beauty, grandeur, and
divinity of the human spirit.
Ultimately, WALKING THE
CAMINO, GOING CLEAR and AWAKE
are stories of humankind itself the expanded universe that unites
us all - that is, the universal
struggle of all of us to free
ourselves from hardship and to
seek lasting peace and happiness.
WALKING THE CAMINO:
SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (PG)
June 11, exclusive MORE
AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA
(PG)
July 2, exclusive MORE
GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY
AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF (M)
June 18 MORE

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FILMING THE PAG

The perennial popularity

of the literary adaptation

he classics of the book world tend to come back to

the big screen in regular cycles, always ready to be
rediscovered by audiences hungry for a good literary
adaptation. The last time we saw Thomas Hardys Far
From the Madding Crowd on the big screen, it starred
Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdeen, had her
romantically choosing between Alan Bates, Peter Finch,
and a particularly dashing Terence Stamp, and was
directed by John Schlesinger, who went on to make
Midnight Cowboy and Marathon Man.
Schlesinger was part of the 1950s/1960s British film
movement of kitchen sink drama; films that drew on
social realism techniques, focusing on industrial or
working class settings, with angry young men
protagonists and dark criticisms of the stratification of
British society. It may be set in the nineteenth century,
but Schlesingers Madding Crowd has far more to tell
audiences about the state of then-contemporary Britain
than Hardys original sheep farmers.
The newest version of Far From the Madding Crowd also
has a director of iconoclastic renown: Danish raconteur
Thomas Vinterberg, who last screened at Nova with the
Oscar-nominated The Hunt. He might initially seem an
unusual choice for a sweeping period drama, led by a
bravura Carey Mulligan who this time round has
Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge and Michael Sheen
competing for her affections, but what has resulted is
something along the lines of Martin Scorseses The Age
of Innocence, or Ang Lees Sense and Sensibility. When
auteurs take on literary adaptations, their own
preoccupations tend to bleed through and mingle with
those of the author, resulting in some of the most meaty,
intriguing, and flat out enjoyable examples of the genre.
Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary has been an even
more persistent favourite with filmmakers, with the first
major film adaptation being undertaken by French

auteur Jean Renoir, before the story migrated to Hollywood

and Emma Bovary was played by Jennifer Jones. Directed by
Vincente Minnelli, known for his lavishly extravagant
musicals with MGM, the 1949 Bovary is intriguing for its
conceit on running the story of the novel alongside that of
the real life incident of the obscenity trial mounted against
Flaubert, played here by James Mason. Originally a plot
device contrived to placate the censors, it instead allows for
a unique means of engaging with the authors own story.
Its been nearly twenty-five years since the last Madame
Bovary big screen adaptation (1991, French, directed by
Claude Chabrol, and with the incomparable Isabelle Huppert
as Emma), and this newest version sees the story helmed by
a woman for the first time, in director Sophie Barthes (Cold
Souls). Unlike the lavish productions of yore, Barthes has
elected to create something more in the mould of Joe
Wrights Pride and Prejudice, more visually gritty, perhaps
more historically accurate, and focusing all the visual
beauty into Emmas costuming, which becomes more
elaborate as she gradually imprisons herself in debt.
What is also striking and worth looking forward to in
Barthes version is her Emma Mia Wasikowska. The
Australian actress has been giving powerful performances
in films as varied as Jane Eyre, Tracks, and Stoker, and here
her Emma Bovary seems younger than any seen on screen
before, accentuating her naivety, frustration and eventual
despair. It is moving cinema, and worthy of standing
alongside its fine line of predecessors.
FAR FROM THE
MADDING CROWD (M)
June 25 MORE
Madame Bovary (CTC)
July 9 MORE

FAR FROM THE

MADDING CROWD (M)

fter the Academy Award

winning The Hunt, Danish
director Thomas Vinterberg has
done something unexpected in
taking the reins on an opulent
period drama adapted from a
novel by one of Britains most
renowned writers, Thomas Hardy.
Starring Carey Mulligan as
Bathsheba Everdeen, a headstrong,
independent young woman, the
film follows Bathshebas
inheritance of a farm from her
uncle, and the three different
suitors she attracts: solid and
dependable shepherd Gabriel Oak
(Matthias Schoenaerts),
established wealthy landowner
William Boldwood (Michael
Sheen), and the debonair,
flirtatious soldier Frank Troy ((Tom
Sturridge). FAR FROM THE
MADDING CROWD follows one
womans search for love and the
man who can match her, and can
be compared in terms of period
splendour to the likes of The Age of
Innocence and Sense and

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he arrival of high definition

digital projection heralded a
new age for motion picture
exhibition. However, given the film
industrys enormous back
catalogue, the availability of older
titles not yet transferred from
35mm prints to high definition
digital files meant past classics
could not be revisited on the
cinema screen as easily.
Thankfully, with over a decade of
commercial digital projection in
the rear-view mirror, the
importance of restoring and
preserving cinemas past has been
recognised and pre-digital
features are being made available
to cinemas audiences once again.
As Cinema Nova prepares to
present David Strattons carefully
curated Great Britain Retro Film
Festival (see separate story), the

recently announced NOVA ICONIC

line-up gives movie lovers the
chance to revisit a selection of
essential and important cinema
from across history.
Jim Henson transfixed and
terrified a generation with the first
live action feature devoid of
human characters, THE DARK
CRYSTAL. Set in a magical
fantasyland designed by renowned
artist Brian Froud, a young warrior
sets out on a quest to restore the
mythical qualities of a fractured
gem that has divided his planet.
Featuring some of the most
audacious examples of
muppeteering ever seen,
Hensons 1982 film returns in time
for the June school holidays.
Winner of the Palme dOr in 1969,
Lindsay Andersons IF , a tale of
rebellion led by a schoolboy played

by Malcolm McDowell, inspired

filmmaker Stanley Kubrick to cast
him in Clockwork Orange. A
subversive delight that switches
between colour and black & white
and builds to a surreal conclusion,
IF. exemplifies a shift between
the questioning decade of the 60s
and the me decade of the 70s.
Skipping forward a quarter of
a century with Ben Stillers
comedy of Gen X manners, REALITY
BITES presents a retrospectively
quaint snapshot of an era where
grunge music was cool, the cold
war was thawing and technology
was increasingly moving into the
hands of consumers. Starring
pixie-princess it girl Winona
Ryder and Ethan Hawke, REALITY
BITES reminds of a time when
adolescents exhibited angst
despite having very little to

worry about.
Considered Martin Scorseses
masterpiece, GOODFELLAS returns
to the screen in ultra high
definition digital. Ray Liotta stars
opposite Robert DeNiro and an
Oscar winning Joe Pesci, capturing
a true story of a wise-guys rise
through the mobster ranks before
becoming a target for both the FBI
and the Mob. Widely considered
the best film of 1990, it lost the
Best Picture Oscar to Kevin
Costners revisionist western
Dances with Wolves.
THE DARK CRYSTAL (G)
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IF. (M)
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REALITY BITES (M)
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GOODFELLAS (R18+)
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