Nitehawk Naughties time travels to 1968 for a Parisian menage-a-trois with THE DREAMERS (a 35mm presentation). Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland!
THE MODERN: THE DREAMERS (Un film de BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI)
When young American exchange student named Matthew (Michael Pitt) meets twins Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green) during the May 1968 protest over the firing of Cinémathèque Francaise founder Henri Langlois they discover a mutual love of film and each other. Matthew’s stay with the twins alone in their bohemian home sets into motion a summer of sexual fantasy amongst the rather violent reality of the student protests occurring. While it didn’t leave as much of a controversial footprint as Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci’s The Dreamers has a similar tone in that it features a taboo sexual odyssey, hinting at incest, between relative strangers during a short period of time. Importantly, it is also a love letter to cinema itself, mimicking another infamous Parisian threesome film, Jean-Luc Godard’ Bande à part (Band of Outsiders).
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.
Nitehawk Naughties spends some quality time in an apartment with two sexually involved strangers in LAST TANGO IN PARIS (a 35mm presentation).
Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland! Plus, The Strand will be on hand to sell a curated selection of erotic before the screening!
THE CLASSIC: LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Un film de BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI)
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris caused controversy upon its initial release in 1972, seeing it banned in numerous countries, receiving an X rating in the United States, and the director going on trial for obscenity in Italy. Despite this, the film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor. More than forty years later, Last Tango in Paris is iconic; a classic that shows the palpable loneliness of two strangers trying to connect, and feel alive, only through anonymous sexual encounters. Their clandestine meeting occurs when they view the same Parisian apartment that’s for rent. There, Paul (Marlon Brando), an American businessman reeling from the suicide of his wife, convinces Jeanne (Maria Schneider), a young affianced French woman, to embark on a strictly physical relationship in that apartment without knowing each other’s name or life story. Needless to say, it doesn’t end well.
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.
Nitehawk Naughties’ spends the night in a castle with Jean Rollin’s erotically blood-thirsty film, FASCINATION. Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland!
THE CULT: FASCINATION (Un film de JEAN ROLLIN)
It’s pretty much impossible to try to write about a Jean Rollin film, they are much better suited to explain themselves. The king of erotic-horror (and lesbian vampires), Rollin’s films are often bad, sometimes un-watchable, but always visually stunning. These art films recall the look of other European “horror” films of the era but remain, ques cu sa?, resoundingly French. With soft-core porn stars as actresses and plenty of nudity, Fascination (aka Les Frisson des Vampires) is tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two seductive women (Eva and Elizabeth) who just happen to be part of an aristocratic vampire cult. Without a doubt, Fascination is one of Rollin’s dreamy and seductive best.
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.
Nitehawk Naughties goes on the trip of a lifetime to Bangkok with EMMANUELLE.
Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland! Plus, The Strand will be on hand to sell a curated selection of erotic before the screening!
THE PORN: EMMANUELLE (Un film de Just Jaeckin)
This debut film by photographer Just Jaeckin, Emmanuelle explicitly details the sexual awakening of a young model (Sylvia Kristel) that unfolds when she travels to meet her French diplomat husband in Bangkok. With an intent to cure Emmanuelle (and presumably society too) of the predilection to associate sex with love, the film explores a very open relationship she has with her husband, Jean, and her new friend, Marie-Anne, as each introduces new lovers, both men and women, into the equation in increasingly intense measures. This soft-core porn is fairly faithful to the novel Emmanuelle on which it’s based and it rides the wave of the rise of hardcore pornography and erotic films like Last Tango in Paris that were popular amongst mainstream audiences in the early 1970s. It’s the spawn of numerous sequels but none seem to match the Je ne sais quoi of the original.
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret-Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle
We love you so much, we could eat you. In Claire Denis’ carnal cannibal film Trouble Every Day, American couple Dr. Shane Brown and June go to Paris under the ruse of a honeymoon. In reality, Dr. Brown is really on the hunt for a neuroscientist and his wife, Coré, a woman he was once obsessed with and who suffer from the same malady (read: cannibalism). Coré is imprisoned in her house to prevent eating sprees but chance encounter with the outside world violently penetrates her realm. This unfortunate turn of events triggers an event so cataclysmic that it just might lead to Shane’s chance for a normal life. Love, desire, and hunger. Sexual cannibalism is complicated.
Nitehawk Nasties has a reservation waiting for you at the exclusive BLOOD DINER (a 35mm presentation).
Service is a real killer for the ladies who get into the Namtut Brothers’ wildy popular restaurant. This black comedy horror, with a distinct 1980s B-movie flavor, is a loose sequel to Herschell Gordon Lewis’s infamous cannibal “classic” Blood Feast (1967) and, if you’re a cannibal film connoisseur, you’ll note the similarities. After resurrecting their serial-killer uncle from the grave, restauranteurs Michael and George Tutman takes orders from his head, housed in a mason jar, to bring back the Ancient Lumerian goddess, Sheetar. To achieve that, they have to collect various body parts from immoral women and find a virgin for the goddess to eat. But with two mismatched detectives on the case, will the blood buffet might be a bust. Bone-appetite!
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Nasties I EAT CANNIBALS program.
Nitehawk presents a special one-nite midnite screening of BAND OF ROBBERS. Introduction by Co-director/talent Adam Nee along with fellow cast members Kyle Gallner and Hannibal Buress!
Mark Twain’s young heroes Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn spring vividly back to life, this time as modern-day grown men in Band of Robbers. When Huck is released from prison he hopes to leave his criminal past behind. But his lifelong friend and corrupt cop, Tom, has other plans having formed the Band of Robbers – a group of misfits dedicated to locating the hidden treasure that eluded the boys in childhood.
Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present a screening of CHRISTMAS, AGAIN. Q&A with director Charles Poekel!
Christmas, Again screens at Nitehawk leading up to the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards for which director Charles Poekel is nominated for the prestigious John Cassavetes Award.
For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. Devoid of any holiday spirit, he struggles to stay awake during the long, chilly nights in his trailer, while the daytime traffic keeps him from getting any real rest. As he slowly spirals into despair, he comes to the aid of a mysterious young woman in the park. Her warming presence, matched with some colorful customers, help rescue him from self-destruction.
Local Color is in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival.
ART SEEN presents brunch screenings of TROUBLEMAKERS, the documentary that unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s.
Troublemakers features a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest. Today these works remain impressive not only for the sheer audacity of their makers but also for their out-sized ambitions to break free from traditional norms. The film casts these artists in a heroic light, which is exactly how they saw themselves. Iconoclasts who changed the landscape of art forever, these revolutionary, antagonistic creatives risked their careers on radical artistic change and experimentation, and took on the establishment to produce art on their own terms. The film includes rare footage and interviews which unveil the enigmatic lives and careers of storied artists Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria (The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer (Double Negative); a headstrong troika that established the genre. As the film makes clear, in making works that can never be possessed as an object in a gallery, these troublemakers stand in marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today.
Using original footage produced with helicopters and rare re-mastered vintage footage from the period, Crump’s cinematic journey takes viewers on a thrill ride through the most significant land art sites in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, an immersive and physically transportive experience that movie goers will not forget.
