A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.
In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating ‘hungries’. Humankind’s only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The children go to school at an army base in rural Britain, where they’re subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close). School teacher Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua), thus forming a special bond. But when the base is invaded, the trio escape with the assistance of Sgt. Eddie Parks (Paddy Considine) and embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is.
Comedian Kevin Maher joins forces with and REAL LIFE wizard Devin Person to host a video variety show celebrating the mystical world of wizards!
This two-hour video variety show is a journey across the magical landscape of pop culture, looking at famous wizards from film, television, literature and cereal commercials.
From Gandalf to Harry Potter, learn why these ancient figures of myth and magic are more popular today than ever.
The Daily Dot says, “Person’s approach to wizardry is rooted in its accessibility, tinged with some levity—and weed jokes here and there,” while DailyGrindhouse.com called Kevin Geeks Out “like TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”
With special guests:
Lloyd Floyd
Jake Flores
And more to be announced
Nitehawk and Mass Appeal present a special screening of John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE.
Post screening talk/Q&A with Prodigy moderated by Sacha Jenkins where they will further explore Prodigy’s fascination with everything Illuminati and conspiracy based philosophies.
In this 1988 John Carpenter classic a homeless drifter discovers a reason for the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor: a conspiracy by non-human aliens who have infiltrated American society in the guise of wealthy yuppies. With the help of special sunglasses that reveal the aliens’ true faces and their subliminal messages (“marry and reproduce,” “submit to authority”), our hero tries to stop the invasion. This satire of Reaganomics and the “greed is good” era also has one of the funniest (and longest) fight scenes in American cinema.
Prodigy, generally acknowledged as the more lyrically gifted member of New York hardcore rap duo Mobb Deep, has been extremely vocal in his lyrics about conspiracy theories, Illuminati and secret societies throUghout his entire career. His latest album, The Hegelian Dialectic, released in early 2017, digs even deeper into his conspiracy theories’ believes and studies.
Sacha Jenkins (director/executive producer): Sacha currently is the creative director at
Mass Appeal. He was a co-founder of the music journal ego trip, an editor at Vibe, and
his past works have appeared in major publications such as Rolling Stone and Spin. Sacha
has penned major works on hip hop, graffiti and youth culture. His filmmaking debut was
the 2015 Sundance Film Festival favorite with Fresh Dressed, which was acquired by
CNN Films and has been a smash success on Netflix.
Nitehawk presents midnite screenings of the new independent horror film, THE VOID.
When police officer Carter discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a bare bones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil. From the Executive Producers of The Witch so you know it’s good!
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a 35mm screening of AC/DC’s last tour with Bon Scott: AC/DC: LET THERE BE ROCK.
Afterparty in Lo-Res featuring DJ Blurry Murray spinning big, bad, 70s rock on vinyl.
AC/DC live in Paris at what was arguably the height of their powers in December 1979. Following a format similar to Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same – concert footage with some interview material and fantasy/filmed sequences interspersed – this amazing movie record of AC/DC’s last tour with Bon Scott is simple, no holds barred, balls to the wall rock and roll. The group can literally do no wrong as they plow through the following set list:
Live Wire
Shot Down in Flames
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
Sin City
Walk All Over You
Bad Boy Boogie
The Jack
Highway to Hell
Girls Got Rhythm
High Voltage
Whole Lotta Rosie
Rocker
Let There Be Rock
Along the way, we hear about the songwriting process, playing live, and living the rock star dream. It’s all so very drunken and delightful.
Join curator Willy Hartland for a wild romp of an evening, in this eclectic program of cartoons set in an urban setting. Featuring a Q&A with many of the participating filmmakers.
1. George Griffin, “Candy Machine” (1972)
The man just wants a piece of candy. The candy machine just wants a piece of the man.
2. Nate Theis, “Driving” (2015)
The daily car commute with gag atop gag in rapid succession.
3. Michaela Pavlátová, “Tram” (2012)
The daily routine of a buxom streetcar operator turns into an erotic fantasy.
4. Signe Baumane, “Tarzan” (2014)
A man meets a woman on the subway and flirts with her until it hurts.
5. Willy Hartland, “New York City Sketchbook” (2016)
Sketchbook drawings come to life in this dreamlike vision of New York City.
6. Debra Solomon, “My Kingdom” (2014)
A short film about personal space and finding comfort in crowded areas of a busy city.
7. Bill Plympton & Kanye West’s “Heard ‘em Say” (2005)
Animated depiction of Kanye West as a taxicab driver working in a bleak, fictional city.
8. Dave Fleischer, “Riding The Rails” starring Betty Boop (1938)
Betty Boop’s dog Pudgy insists on following her underground into the subway.
9. Andy & Carolyn London, “The Lost Tribes of New York City” (2009)
Urban anthropologists Andy & Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s overlooked citizens.
10. Mimi Gross & Red Grooms “Fat Feet” (1966)
A pixelated and animated city symphony, with live action cartoony NewYorkers and found sound.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Mark Boone Junior, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Buscemi, Anthony LaPaglia, Elizabeth Bracco
Trees Lounge is the writing and directing debut of actor Steve Buscemi and is a story about a man going through a life crisis that he just can’t put his finger on. He’s lost his job and girlfriend and has a life that revolves around Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives, full of the colorful eccentrics one finds in such place. He drunkenly wanders through his life, still in love with his ex, desperate for some sort of meaning of his life. His relationship with Sevigny’s seventeen year old character, Debbie, further complicates things.
Chloë Sevigny is the demure book editor partying in the early 1980s Manhattan scene in Whit Stillman’s THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO.
In her first film with director Whit Stillman, Chloë Sevigny is Alice, the ambitious, smart and somewhat shy young woman amongst rather boisterously verbose friends. From Criterion: “The Last Days of Disco, from director Whit Stillman, is a cleverly comic look at the early 1980s Manhattan party scene from the vantage point of the late nineties. At the center of the film’s roundelay of revelers are the icy Charlotte and the demure Alice, by day toiling as publishing house assistants and by night looking for romance and entertainment at a Studio 54–like club. Brimming with Stillman’s trademark dry humor, The Last Days of Disco is an affectionate yet unsentimental look at the end of an era.”
Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: CHLOË SEVIGNY.
Chloë Sevigny is infamous New York “Club Kid” Gitsie in the real life party tragedy, PARTY MONSTER
A 35mm presentation.
Based on the book Disco Bloodbath by James St. James, Party Monster is a cult favorite (low budget and charmingly campy) that traces the rise and tragic fall of Michael Alig and the New York club scenes in the 1990s. Fame-hungry Aig arrives on a Greyhound bus in New York City desperate to leave his boring Midwestern past behind. After meeting downtown club kid James St. James and influential nightclub owner Peter Gatien, he decides to throw the most controversial and over-the-top parties in the city but in just a few years Alig’s drug addiction and erratic behavior destroys his empire and ends in murder.
Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: CHLOË SEVIGNY.
Chloë Sevigny is a wealthy New Yorker reevaluating the meaning of her life in Woody Allen’s MELINDA AND MELINDA.
A 35mm presentation.
Traversing his classic theme, Woody Allen intertwines two alternating stories of comedy and tragedy in Melinda and Melinda. The parallel stories are introduced in the film’s opening scene in which four sophisticated New Yorkers enjoy a dinner out on a rainy night. An anecdote provokes a discussion between writers Max and Sy about the dual nature of human drama, symbolized by the comedy/tragedy mask of theater. Ultimately a comic tale unfolds, pitted against a more dramatic version of itself-both centered around a somewhat enigmatic woman named Melinda. Chloe Sevigny’s character is part of the tragic storyline where a neurotic Melinda comes to stay with her and makes her reevaluate her own life.
Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: CHLOË SEVIGNY.
