Direct from its premiere at the 2022 Sydney Film Festival, NSFA’s restoration of Baz Luhrmann’s quirky, award-winning sensation STRICTLY BALLROOM hits Cinema Nova screens for its 30th Anniversary. The film has been devotedly restored by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in partnership with Spectrum Films, M&A Films, and director Baz Luhrmann. Cinema Nova will exclusively screen the 4K restoration from June 30, upholding its ongoing legacy as Melbourne’s home of quality arthouse and contemporary cinema.
“I have extremely fond memories of playing Strictly Ballroom at the Longford cinema in South Yarra in 1992. We had the most exciting premiere with director Baz Luhrmann and actor Paul Mercurio in attendance. They arrived at the cinema in a motorcade to much fanfare on Toorak Road. The film ran for months and was a huge success playing to sell-out sessions.”- Natalie Miller, co-founder of Cinema Nova.
Greeted at its Cannes premiere in 1992 with a fifteen-minute standing ovation and an all-out battle over international distribution rights, STRICTLY BALLROOM was an immediate triumph and grew to become one of the most successful Australian films of all time. Thirty years later, NFSA’s STRICTLY BALLROOM restoration was selected to screen at the 75th Cannes Film Festival as part of the Cannes Classics program.
Tickets for Luhrmann’s dazzling directorial debut are now on sale on the Cinema Nova website.
