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.

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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.

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Chloë Sevigny makes her feature film debut in the controversial day-in-the-life of New York teens, KIDS.

A 35mm presentation. Print courtesy of the Gus Van Sant Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

Written by Harmony Korine and directed by Larry Clark, Kids is the definitive controversial film of the 1990s about a subculture of misdirected youth with a visual language so evocative it still resonates. Amoral teen Telly has made it his goal to sleep with as many virgin girls as possible — but he doesn’t tell them that he’s HIV positive. While on the hunt for his latest conquest, Telly and his best friend, Casper , smoke pot and steal from shops around New York. Meanwhile, Jenny (Chloë Sevigny), one of Telly’s early victims, makes it her mission to save other girls from him. But before she has a chance to confront him at a party, everything goes horribly wrong.

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Chloë Sevigny is the protective assistant to one of Bill Murray’s former lovers in Jim Jarmusch’s beautifully original comedy, BROKEN FLOWERS.

A 35mm presentation.

Bill Murray stars in the comedic story of an aging Don Juan who hits the road on a revealing and humorous cross-country journey. When a mysterious pink letter informs him that he may have a 19-year-old son, he visits four former lovers, where he comes face to face with the errors of his past and the possibilities of the future. One of these women is Carmen, an “animal communicator” played by Jessica Lange, who has a protective ambiguous assistant played by Sevigny.

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Nitehawk kicks off its retrospective series on Chloë Sevigny with her Academy Award nominated performance in the powerful and relevant film, BOYS DON’T CRY. Directed by Kimberly Peirce, the film is based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American transgender man who attempts to find love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances. Sevigny plays Lana, friend and eventual girlfriend to Brandon Teena, who continues her romance with him when she discovers Brandon was born female.

Starring: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon

In 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’ book American Psycho took the literary world by storm with its shocking depiction of the excesses of the 1980s as told through the devious actions of serial killer Patrick Bateman. Nearly a decade later, Mary Harron’s filmic adaptation of Patrick Bateman’s self-love, self-loathing, and precisely calculated murders took the narrative to the next level. The sterile performances of greedy capitalist nature of young Manhattan investment bankers, ambivalence mixed with serial killing, makes American Psycho makes 80s insanity a thrill to watch in any decade.

Chloë Sevigny leads an ensemble cast in Tara Subkoff’s directorial debut, #HORROR.

You’ve got followers…Cyberbullying goes offline during one deadly night. Based on a shocking true story, #HORROR follows a group of preteen girls living in a suburban world of money and privilege. But when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far, virtual terror becomes all too real. Set in a frosty and sterile environment where being distracted by virtual reality distorts actual reality, #HORROR is an art-meets-horror film that acts as cautionary tale for the dangerous effects the internet can pose to young women.

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Starring:  Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Chloë Sevigny, Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch

David Fincher’s superb thriller Zodiac is a searing and singularly haunting examination of twin obsessions: one man’s desire to kill and another’s quest for the truth. The film is based on the true story of the notorious serial killer and the intense manhunt he inspired. Roger Ebert wrote that it, “is a police procedural crossed with a newspaper movie, but free of most of the cliches of either.” It follows how the case becomes an obsession for four men, including editorial cartoonist at the SF Chronicle Robert Graysmith, whose personal lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues. Sevigny’s character plays his intelligent wife who questions yet supports his unwavering quest.

Comedian Kevin Maher hosts a 2-hour video variety show about Monkeys in Media.

The show celebrates some of the strangest tropes including: Gorillas vs. Nazis, Women who participate in forbidden monkey love, Chimps in Horror Movies, a defense of Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, a retrospective on Kong sequels (authorized and unofficial), plus the use of monkeys in art-house cinema and propaganda films.

 See why Kevin Geeks Out show has been called “TED Talks for Midnight Movies” (DailyGrindhouse.com), as Kevin and his guests show clips, make jokes and make the world a better place through laughing with and/or at monkey cinema.

With special guests:

• John Cribbs (head writer, ThePinkSmoke.com)
• Chico Leo (co-host, THE SCREAM SQUAD podcast)
• Wendy Mays (host, PET CINEMATARY podcast)
• Paul Murphy (co-host, SCREEN PYSCHICS podcast)
• Marcus Pinn (writer, PinnlandEmpire.com)
• Nathaniel Wharton (SportsAlcohol.com)