Starring: Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Adams

On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) is convinced by her husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine’s affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, but she befriends George’s wide-eyed and pregnant sister-in-law, Ashley (Amy Adams), who is nearing her due date. Through the family, Madeleine gains greater insight into George’s character.

Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi, Christian Borromeo, John Saxon

Visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel, writer Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) is pulled into a murder mystery as someone familiar with his work begins a series of killings. While the police look into the crimes, Neal investigates on his own, aided by his beautiful assistant, Anne (Daria Nicolodi), and a tenacious young local named Gianni (Christian Borromeo). As the murderer brutally dispatches of other victims, Neal gets closer to discovering the psychopath’s identity.

Starring: Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly, Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, Regina King

In John Singleton’s powerful portrait of college life in the 1990s, a group of incoming freshmen at Columbus University — including varsity athlete Malik Williams (Omar Epps), awkward outcast Remy (Michael Rapaport) and wide-eyed Kristen Connor (Kristy Swanson) — struggle to find themselves and adjust to newfound independence. When Remy finds acceptance among a group of neo-Nazis, tensions rise even higher on a campus already divided along racial, socio-economic and gender lines.

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Lucero, and Carlos Berry as “Runt”

Everyone!!! Out of the August water! Drones sight SHARK! swimming in Brooklyn – and The Deuce has the footage!!

Brawny bad-boy braggart gets his illegal gun-running ‘nads caught (and nearly blown to bits!) between a rock and a hard place and opts to join up with a shady “Professor” and his dalliance-prone “daughter” for some deep-sea shenanigans searching shipwrecks for some elusive “shark proteins”??!!?? Wherein both “gun”-running and “shark proteins” are perhaps but euphemisms for more suspect, hence, more profitable, hence, more dangerous doings!!??!! And bolstering this bevy of desperate desperadoes – a drunkard of a “Doc” and the trickster tyke “terrible” raffishly referred to as “Runt” – the whole hot-house stew of backstabbing crew set sail for a sweaty, smokey, sun-baked dip into a sea of Sudanese skullduggery… with REAL SHARKS!! ACTUAL REAL SHARKS!!

Famously touted in the pages of Life magazine for the real-life death-by-shark-attack of one of its scuba-diving stunt-men (“WITH 2 PAGES OF COLOR PICTURES”!!) – and generally derided by director and critics alike (due to some dastardly production-studio-done re-editing and re-branding of Fuller’s delivered finished film, formerly called – after Reynold’s one-named character – “Caine“) – but the brush of the fiery Fuller can still be felt… with its filmmaking that furrows in both fluidity and brute force… Suspenses suspended – terror truncated – letting “life” breeze into the fore… with REAL SHARKS!!

The loud-mouthed louts all brylcreemed and jeaned up for 42nd’s Anco Theatre‘s “top-billed” biker bonanza – Rebel Rousers – were perhaps too needing of 2 wheels firmly gripped to terra firma to venture a ride on the SHARK! tide… but The Deuce gets its kicks in the deep water – where danger lurks!! 

Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore

Another scorcher from the dynamic Pre-Code power duo behind The Scarlet Empress and Shanghai Express, director Josef von Sternberg’s 1932 drama Blonde Venus stars Marlene Dietrich as a Teutonic singer-turned-housewife lured back to the cabaret stage by her husband’s sudden illness! Doting mother by day and sultry siren by night, Dietrich soon catches the eye of a rich American (Cary Grant), who offers her and her son financial security in exchange for…

Featuring some truly bizarre and iconic numbers – including Dietrich in a gorilla suit, later cut into Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers – Blonde Venus pushed the Pre-Code envelope with its scandalous and sensitive depiction of adultery and thinly-veiled allusions to the world’s oldest profession.

Starring: Shin’ichirô Miki, Jôji Nakata, Maaya Sakamoto, Tomokazu Seki

Escaflowne blends romance and fantasy to tell the story of Hitomi Kanzaki, an ordinary high school student whose life has lost all meaning. Feeling at her most desperate, she wishes that she could just disappear into thin air — a wish that is immediately granted when a mysterious man suddenly materializes and catapults her away from Earth. Hitomi is instantly thrust into Gaia, a strange new world ruled by sword and sorcery. In this world she realizes she can make a difference.

Starring: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp

The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with a screening of Sally Potter’s ORLANDO. To make a $10 donation to support the life-saving work of LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention organization The Trevor Project, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“Sally Potter’s 1992 adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf provides a sumptuous framework for Tilda Swinton’s ethereal virtuosity. The drama, spanning four centuries, shows the twists and turns of one fantastic private life that’s formed and deformed by the prerogatives of royal power. In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I—played with quietly gleeful ferocity by Quentin Crisp—elevates the androgynous young man Orlando to a place by her side. Orlando makes his way through the pressure cookers of the seventeenth century’s absolute rule and, in 1700, gets an ambassadorial posting to Constantinople. Lurching ahead by decades and centuries, Orlando never ages but nonetheless changes: emerging as a woman in the eighteenth century, she confronts a new age of aristocratic authority and persecution; brought up to speed in London in the late twentieth century, she still faces the pomp and cultural primacy of the same damned monarchy. Potter’s ironies veer between the blunt and the exquisite, the oblique and the confrontational, exposing the cruel hazards of nature and the perversities of culture alike.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins returns to Nitehawk Cinema with another batch of rarities. Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging one-hour program of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio. Selections include early acoustic versions of “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Girl from the North Country;” an intense rendition of “Isis” from the Rolling Thunder Review, with Dylan in face paint; a delicate performance of “Simple Twist of Fate” featuring Scarlet Rivera on violin; The Band backing a swaggering run-through of “Baby Let Me Follow You Down;” a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man” with Ry Cooder and Van Dyke Parks; a glimpse into the Archive’s film restoration project with never-before-seen footage of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” from 1966; and many more treasures.

Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening discussion and audience Q&A with special guest Ira Kaplan of beloved indie-rock band Yo La Tengo.

The Bob Dylan Center opened in Tulsa, OK in May 2022 as the permanent home of the Bob Dylan Archive. The mission of the Center is to inspire and celebrate fearless creativity by exploring the music and artistry of the Nobel Prize–winning singer-songwriter as a catalyst for personal expression and cultural change.

Starring: Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, James Dixon

Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Co-hosted by Joe Berger and Jeff Cashvan of THE DEUCE!

The mutant infants are back, and this time, they’ve been exiled!

The third entry of Larry Cohen’s killer baby saga takes the absurd premise to new levels. At a loss for how to deal with the phenomenon of an increasing population of rabid newborns, the government ships them to a remote tropical island that they can have all to themselves. But if you think that is an easy fix, you’ve got something to learn!

Enter Stephen Jarvis (played with gloriously sweaty conviction by Michael Moriarty), the tormented father of one such mutant baby. Years after the infants were banished, a scientific expedition returns to the island to check in on the toddler terrors—and let’s just say… they’re all grown up now. And very cranky.

With Cohen’s signature mix of biting satire, bizarre family drama, and gooey creature effects, Island of the Alive asks the question: Can mutant babies learn to love… or will they just kill everyone instead?