Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a special screening of MISS SHARON JONES: DREAMS. Featuring a Q&A with Sharon Jones!
Just added: Matinee screening on Sunday, September 25 also featuring Sharon Jones!
Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band “Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.” In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.
TENEBRE is an Italian murder mystery by the giallo master Dario Argento.
A 35mm screening. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive
Knives, black gloves, and a killer score; that’s giallo cinema to the core. In Argento’s Tenebre, a writer Peter Neal is pulled into a murder mystery as someone familiar with his work begins a series of killings while visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel. While the police look into the crimes, Neal investigates on his own, aided by his beautiful assistant, Anne, and a tenacious young local named Gianni. As the murderer brutally dispatches of other victims, Neal gets closer to discovering the psychopath’s identity.
Part of Nitehawk’s Halloween INTERNATIONAL SLASHER midnite series.
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda, Renji Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
This disturbing Japanese thriller follows Aoyama, a widower who, at the insistence of his son, decides to start dating again. Aided by a film-producer friend, Aoyama uses auditions for a fake production to function as a dating service. When Aoyama becomes intrigued by the withdrawn, gorgeous Asami, they begin a relationship. However, he begins to realize that Asami isn’t as reserved as she appears to be, leading to gradually increased tension and a harrowing climax.
Three hitchhikers find trouble in the rural outback in WOLF CREEK.
Very loosely based on real events, 2005’s Wolf Creek marks a time in the 2000s when extreme, near mindless violence dominated many horror films. When two British tourists, Liz and Kirsty, backpack throughout Australia with their Australian friend Ben, it starts off with a drunken night and a suddenly inoperable car. Enter Mick, the helpful repairman who winds up being their worst nightmare. With near escapes and essentially hunting scenarios, Wolf Creek taps into our general fear of the wilderness, the unknown, and the kindness of strangers.
Part of Nitehawk’s Halloween INTERNATIONAL SLASHER midnite series.
Comedian Kevin Maher hosts a video variety show about cinema’s deadliest women.
The evening of clips and commentary explores character types including: homicidal heroines, lady vigilantes, roving girl gangs and female assassins. Plus a celebration of lesbian vampires, mystical crones, bad seed daughters and femme fatale robots. All this and a salute to Pam Grier!
Featuring presentations by:
Jon Abrams (editor-in-chief, DAILY GRINDHOUSE.com)
Travis Alexandra Boatright (award-winning costume designer)
Amber Dextrous (Friend of KGO)
Tenebrous Kate (host of the podcast BAD BOOKS FOR BAD PEOPLE)
Kevin Rice (writer/producer/director of TV’s GHOUL A GO-GO)
Rommel Wood (NPR producer for ASK ME ANOTHER, host of EAR HAMMER on Radio Free Brooklyn)
Starring: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 British silent film THE LODGER with a live score by MORRICONE YOUTH!
A Jack-the-Ripper type murderer called “The Avenger” is terrorizing London by targeting young blond women. How Hitchcockian! At the same time of these attacks, a mysterious man takes a room at the a family-owned boarding house and strikes up a relationship with the proprietor’s pretty blonde daughter. To thicken the plot, she’s engaged to a policeman hot on the trail of “The Avenger” who thinks her Lodger lover is the serial killer! Part of the restored newly restored “Hitchcock Nine” by the British Film Institute, The Lodger is considered the “first true Hitchcock film” and is, obviously, a thrilling way to kick start your Halloween.
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man in ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN!
Featuring frighteningly fun giveaways courtesy of Universal Monsters Universe and Royal Collectibles!
The classics never go out of style! In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum’s director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou’s friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
Join a group of a young American traveling sales crew in Andrea Arnold’s immersive road movie AMERICAN HONEY.
Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American mid-west selling Magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard partying, law-bending and young love.
Nate Parker’s THE BIRTH OF A NATION tells of the violent slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in 1831.
Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom. So, on August 1831, he leads a violent rebellion to free himself and other slaves in Southampton County, Va.
Oliver Stone’s biographical political thriller SNOWDEN tells the personal story of former NSA employee Edward Snowden.
Q&A on Friday, September 16 after the 6:30pm show with film critic Matt Zoller Seitz and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani to discuss Seitz’s new book The Oliver Stone Experience from Abrams Books.
Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gorden-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and become one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a trailer by others. No matter which you believe, the epic story of why he did it, who he left behind, and how he pulled it off makes for one of the most compelling films of the year.
