Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield

Mickey and Mallory are a couple of psychotic serial killer lovers who kill people with joy, inventiveness, and without remorse. Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers is mesmerizing to watch and that makes sense because it’s a meditation on America’s (and the world’s) obsession with sensationalist tales and the media’s complicency in giving these stories fame. We can’t look away! A commentary of its time in the mid-1990s, twenty years later we can see how much (or how little) has changed in our consumptive media circus.

ART SEEN celebrates the Alec Guinness centennial with THE HORSE’S MOUTH! Screening beforehand is frieze video: Cocteau in Soho.

Based on Joyce Cary’s classic novel and written for the screen by Alec Guinness, The Horse’s Mouth brilliantly shows the struggle of artistic creation and how artistic integrity is often mixed with insanity. British painter Gulley Jimson is hell bent on doing things his own way, often to the detriment of his well being and relationships. Frustratingly, most of his artistic visions seem unfulfilled in his paintings until one day he discovers the public wall in which his work can be realized. Criterion says that Guinness “transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures” as he portrays the scruffy, grumpy and lovable Gulley. A comedic and sincere must see!

ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.

Roger Corman shows that the art world can be a scary place in Nitehawk’s ART SEEN 35mm presentation of A BUCKET A BLOOD.

Life is an obscure hobo bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.

A Bucket of Blood is a hilarious poke at the ridiculousness of the art world as only Roger Corman can deliver. Walter Paisley (“That Guy” Dick Miller) is a frustrated and untalented artist working as a waiter in an artist-filled beatnik cafe. One day, after accidentally stabbing his neighbor’s cat, he discovers a way to become a successful sculptor…cover his kills in clay! Through a series of bumbling mishaps and then intentional murders, dear Walter realizes that he must do anything in his power to keep the admiration and the girl he’s desired for so long. A true art-comedy-horror film, A Bucket of Blood shows that inside every artist is, indeed, a mad man!

ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.

Arthouse comes to Midtown, when THE DEUCE presents Paul Morrissey’s BLOOD FOR DRACULA and legends of the SELYWN THEATRE, where this Euro-sleaze-shocko opened on February 21, 1975!

Plus: The famous ‘DEUCE Raffle’ and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

The blood of these whores is killing me! Udo Kier’s desperate, decrepit Dracula tours Italy’s Catholic countryside with assistant Arno Juerging in search of the purest virginal blood – the only blood that can nourish his desires and keep a healthy rose-color in his cheeks. But after discovering the Marchese de Fiore family’s farm and his four enchanting daughters, Drac quickly learns that these ladies can’t be trusted – especially when Joe Delleasndro is trimming their garden…

Made in Italy by Factory mainstay Paul Morrissey in conjunction with Flesh for Frankenstein (neither film with which Warhol had anything more to do other than putting his name on them for distribution), both films were slapped with X ratings upon release in America. And both were met with appallingly offended reviews – the extremes of their overtly sex-and-gore-laden silliness were too much for mainstream audiences to swallow. Outrageously over the top and oooozing with absurdity, Morrissey re-vamps the Dracula myth with some 1970s style Euro-sleaze-tease and titillation: Freudian overtones, Marxist parallels, and barrels of outlandish gore! Rape! Homo-erotic hunkiness!! Horrendous accents!!! Italian release title: Draculacerca sangue di vergine e… mori di sete!!!, literally “Dracula is searching for virgins’ blood, and… he’s dying of thirst!“

Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.

Nitehawk Nasties is back in September with a 35mm screening of Paul Morrissey’s FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN!

Many versions of Dr. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation have been made since Mary Shelley first wrote her gothic novel Frankenstein in 1818 but none quite as sickly amazing as the Paul Morrissey directed Flesh for Frankenstein. It is one of the more, shall we say, unique adaptations of the story as it takes elements from the book, James Whale’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein to make one over-the-top affair. Udo Kier stars as the fabulously mad scientist obsessed with creating his own beautiful monsters and for saying such truisms as, “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gallbladder.” Featuring really gorgeous people and outlandish gore, this film certainly doesn’t tackle the Frankenstein story in a conventional way but its inventiveness and insanity is what makes it so incredibly good.

Starring: Larisa Oleynik, Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Andrew Keegan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Krumholtz

A modernization of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, this late 1990s romantic comedy set in an American high school has now become a bonafide teen classic. 10 Things I Hate About You stars the late Heath Ledger as the new mysterious kid at school (Patrick Verona) who just might win the heart over the misanthropic but beautiful Julie Stiles (Kat). Of course, this love match is set into motion by ulterior movies: by decree of their father, Kat’s younger sister has her eyes on a young man but can’t date until Kat has a boyfriend. And thus it begins…

Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau

Travel across the country with New York advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill who finds himself on a wild chase filled with murder and intrigue as a crime syndicate mistakenly believes he has the secret microfilm. Add in a sexy blond double (or triple) agent and a stunning score by Bernard Herrmann and you have the makings of classic Hitchcock, his ultimate caper film of mistaken identity starring Cary Grant.

Secret Formula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze Gets Banned

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoon Episodes Not Allowed on TV!

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.

Here at Spoons, Toons & Booze, when someone tells us not to do something we pretty much have to do it. So, we’ve put together a collection of cartoons from the 1930?s through the 1990?s that were never allowed to be shown on TV, or aren’t allowed to be shown ever again, because they’re too violent, racist, filthy, seizure inducing, devil worshiping or just downright offensive. The censors can’t keep us down and we’ll be showing them all on the big screen just for you! Come and enjoy…

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– A special menu of cartoon episodes banned from TV!

– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolatey cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.

– A White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs.

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl!

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from SecretFormula and Nitehawk Cinema.

Nitehawk presents a one weekend only screening of NORTHERN LIGHT. Q&A with filmmakers Nick Bentgen and Lisa Kjerulff and Icarus Films’ Livia Bloom after the Saturday screening!

Set against the backdrop of a town’s annual snowmobile race, Northern Light explores the working class experience in a series of captivating personal stories of recession-era America. The lives of three families change profoundly in the north woods of Michigan, where winters are unforgiving, jobs are hard to come by, and the line between living life and simply surviving is razor-thin. This cinematic, observational documentary explores the American working class experience through character-based storytelling. As racers and their families pin their hopes to a 500 mile-long test of endurance, small triumphs and giant sacrifices are made along the way. Dysfunction and hardship permeate the cold, but this harsh setting is simultaneously the site of community and familial intimacy. Filmed over the course of several years spent with the film’s protagonists, Northern Light is a fresh and vital contribution to the tradition of contemporary American cinéma vérité.

The original ‘Ghostface Killah’is on the loose!! A vicious villain with an unstoppable five element technique, Ghostface is killing off all his old rivals. Meanwhile, a young student studying kung fu is taken under the wing of an old chess master. The basics of chess prove to be the same as the basics of fighting, and eventually our heroes must fight Ghostface Killer, who verbally insults his opponents as he annihilates them. A true classic (and obvious favorite of the Wu Tang Clan), directed by Joseph Kuo, Chess Boxing will be presented on the only known 35mm print!

Joseph Kuo directed dozens of low-budget kung fu films in his native Taiwan, with minimal sets and bad wigs off-set by creative plots and exceptional fight choreography. In the 1970’s and early-80’s, Kuo crafted a number of bone-shattering martial arts classics, including Seven Grandmasters, The 18 Bronzemen, Born Invincible and his masterpiece, The Mystery of Chess Boxing.

Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.