Nitehawk and Noisey present a special presentation of San Diego post-hardcore doc IT’S GONNA BLOW!!! Q&A with Director Bill Perrine moderated by Devon Goldberg (Creedle) & plus special guests!
“It’s Gonna Blow!!! – San Diego Music Underground 1986-1996 is a feature length documentary film about San Diego’s influential DIY music scene and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream. Drawing from previously unseen performance footage and interviews with over sixty musicians, promoters and artists such as John Reis (Rocket from the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu), Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids), and Rob Crow (Pinback, Heavy Vegetable)… the film explores the birth of San Diego’s innovative post-hardcore scene and its early 90s ‘Next Seattle’ hype.”
Presented with our media partner, Noisey.
34 years in prison, 30 in solitary – loving every minute… BRONSON was never much of a people person.
Michael Peterson was your average, everyday bloke until he wound up in the slammer for holding up a Post Office. Prison’s where Michael really began to shine, ditching his old moniker for that of his idol: Charles Bronson. The inmate made a name for himself as Bronson, beating guards to a pulp in prisons all across the country. He even started a riot. You see, to Bronson, jail was like a vacation, a kind of playground where you can beat up just about anybody, and there’s really not much they can do about it.
Based on true events, Nicolas Winding Refn’s (Drive, Only God Forgives) Bronson stars Tom Hardy as the film’s titular badass, a charming, if terrifying, serial inmate who punched and scraped and bit his way into being Her Majesty’s Most Dangerous Prisoner.
Part of Nitehawk’s January I’LL KICK YOUR ASS! midnite series.
See why THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE had to kill every man on their wedding night! Presented in 35mm!
Riffing on the 19th century vampire tale of Carmilla, The Blood Spattered Bride is a trashy exploration of female sexuality, marital misogyny and good old fashioned graphic violence. The film follows a young woman who’s jarred at the discovery of her new husband’s twisted sexual appetites while they’re honeymooning at his family’s secluded manor. Repulsed at the touch of her husband, she seeks solace in nightly visions of one of his ancestors: Carmilla – the Blood-Spattered Bride, who seduces the young woman through lessons in love, lust and murder.
Part of Nitehawk’s February TWISTED ROMANCE midnite series.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cybil Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel
Adrift in New York City after the Vietnam War, socially awkward loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes up a job prowling the city’s streets as a taxi driver to deal with his insomnia. Exposed to no one but a rogues gallery of pimps, hustlers and perverts, Travis begins seeing the world as putrid and in need of cleansing. Through awkward, fumbling attempts at romance, Travis isolates himself further, leaving him alone to mull over his obsessions: guns, a phony presidential candidate, and a roughed-up underage prostitute.
Martin Scorsese’s masterwork, Taxi Driver is a brute of a film, one that scrapes characters from the gutter of New York City and rakes them out into the sun to see how they react. Essential on every level.
Love can be vicious.
Boy meets girl. Girl gives boy heroin. Boy kills girl. Boy dies too. The passionate and troubled romance between Sex Pistol’s bassist Sid Vicious and groupie turned girlfriend Nancy Spungen is the stuff of rock and roll legend, a tale that casts a long shadow of drug addiction, abuse and industry enabling. Anchored by a pair of powerful performances from Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Alex Cox’s SID AND NANCY is one of the best films about the lethal cocktail of sex, drugs and rock and roll ever made.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen
Drawing elements from marital dramas, political thrillers and good old-fashioned blood-and-guts horror, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession chronicles the dissolution of a marriage between a spy (Sam Neill) and his increasingly erratic wife (Isabelle Adjani).
Back from a mission abroad, Mark comes home to discover that his wife, Anna, wants a divorce. Unable to shake his wife’s sudden change in heart, Mark begins an investigation into her downward spiral only to discover that she’s come completely unraveled, a frothing, raving, violent shell of her former self. The source of her madness seems to come from within her Berlin apartment, and boy… it ain’t pretty.
Take a walk through the monochrome streets of Woody Allen’s MANHATTAN. Presented in 35mm!
Forty-two-year-old comedy writer Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) is dating a high school girl (an affectingly awkward Mariel Hemingway). He doesn’t see the relationship going anywhere, but the girl’s well of admiration towards him is a nice change of pace from his last relationship, which ended with his wife leaving him for another woman. Isaac’s best friend is married, but he spends most of his time with a bright young mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), who, not surprisingly, Isaac has a thing for too.
Beautifully photographed by Gordon Willis, life in Woody Allen’s Manhattan is one defined by loneliness and a pervasive sense that there’s always something better out there, be it a new town, a new girl, or a new job. This universal yearning inspires Allen’s collection of troubled Manhattanites to trade around their affections like a deck of baseball cards.
Part of Nitehawk’s February I CHOO-CHOO-CHOOSE YOU brunch series.
Starring: Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard, Norman Bird, Michael Graham Cox, Anthony Daniels
Twenty years before a certain fuzzy Kiwi claimed Middle Earth for his own, an animation genius from Brooklyn, Ralph Bakshi, was first to bring Tolkien’s fantasy epic to life. To create his Middle Earth, Bakshi used an animation technique called Rotoscoping, which combines live action and illustration. The result is something like a panel van painting sprung to life, a bizarrely fluid fantasy realm made up of impossible landscapes, saturated color and grotesque creatures. The story’s condensed and incomplete, only making about 2/3rds of the way through the books before petering to an end, but Bakshi’s work remains a marvel and was a huge influence on Peter Jackson when the time came to finish the trip to Mordor.
Celebrate Valentine’s day with Jean Cocteau’s dreamy adaptation of the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST love story with our Live Sound Cinema presentation featuring a live score by Reel Orchestrette!
Surrealist Jean Cocteau’s film adaptation of the French fairy tale “La Belle et Le Bete” (the first ever produced) is a marvel of stage design that’s heavy with innuendo and loaded visuals. The story of Belle, a farmer’s daughter, who offers herself as hostage to a mythical, tortured Beast in exchange for her father’s life. The film springs to life once she reaches The Beast’s secluded castle where everything, from the doors to the light fixtures, has a life of its own. Captivated by his hostage, The Beast falls for Belle, allowing her to return home every day on the condition that he will die if she doesn’t return, leaving Belle torn between her freedom and budding romantic (and sexual! shh!) feelings for the Beast.
Reel Orchestrette (Bradford Reed & Geoff Gersh) is dedicated to the art of live musical accompaniment to silent films. Reed & Gersh have been collaborating together for almost 20 years, they formed Reel Orchestrette in 2012.
The horrifying tale of a mysterious maniac, an abandoned estate, and madness gets its firey start one Christmas Eve in SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT. A 35mm presentation!
Silent Night, Bloody Night (aka Night of the Dark Full Moon and Death House) is a strange and eerie thriller that kicks off on Christmas Eve in 1950 when a Wilfred Butler runs out of his house…on fire. Decades later, his grandson Jeffrey is eager to sell the now abandoned estate but, wouldn’t you know it, an inmate from the nearby institution for the criminally insane escapes and starts to seek bloody revenge in the house. The mystery unravels into a tale of incest, insanity and murder! This pre-slasher shocker is produced by Lloyd Kaufman also stars Warhol Factory legends Candy Darling and Ondine along with horror hero John Carradine!
Part of Nitehawk’s December XMAS CHOPPING midnite series.
