Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
1960 saw the release of three of horror’s best films: Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho, Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, and Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (originally La maschera del demonio or The Mask of Satan). While the others deal with real horrors, Bava’s story is about a vengeful witch whose pact with Satan carries over centuries, long after her execution. In fact, her death is so brutally depicted in the film’s opening sequence that caused the film to be banned in the UK. When she’s awakened by the blood of a traveling doctor, the witch and her minion haunt the cursed family that killed her with the ever-stunning Barbara Steele playing both the witch and the family’s young daughter. As you get with Bava, the film is all contrast, lights and darks, scenery with depth and innovative cinematography.
You’ll really sink your teeth into this tale of a sexy vampire who targets young, rich women in 18th century Germany. This Live Sound Cinema event features a live score by the electronic duo a place both wonderful and strange.
Lush, buxom, and a glorious mix of the Victorian-era meets the 1960s, no one does vampire movies quite like Hammer Films. In Vampire Lovers, the sexy late Ingrid Pitt plays not one but three characters as the lady-leaning vampire who has come to suck the life out of the rich in 18th century Germany. Targeting the bosoms of young and beautiful woman (she only bites men when absolutely necessary), she begins to leave a lot of bodies in her wake. Bring in Peter Cushing as the vampire expect (echoing his Van Helsing roles in the earlier Dracula Hammer Films) to save the town from an undead mess.
a place both wonderful and strange is Russ Marshalek, formerly of Brooklyn’s Lynch-influenced electronic duo Silent Drape Runners. After touring that project across the country for a string of sold out re-soundtracking shows over a year and a half, the duo parted ways, with Marshalek continuing to make smeary, dark Twin Peaks-y electronic dance pop music. Live, a place both wonderful and strange features the post-apocalyptic futurist ingenue Ghost Cop on vocals.
On Wednesday, October 2 join talk-show icon Richard Bey, Mort’s bodyguard David Giegold, Lloyd Kaufman, and the three-headed monster responsible for directing Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie for its DVD release party and screening!
Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr. In the late ’80s, Downey tore apart the traditional talk format by turning debate of current issues into a gladiator pit. His blow-smoke-in-your-face style drew a rabid cult following, but also the title “Father of Trash Television.” Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie dissects the mind and motivation of television’s most notorious agitator.
Come see 5 new episodes of the [adult swim] original series The Heart, She Holler at Nitehawk. We’ve added two midnite screenings of The Heart, She Holler this weekend!
The Thursday screening featuring a Q&A with star Patton Oswalt and Executive Producers John Lee and Alyson Levy is SOLD OUT but join us this Friday and Saturday at Midnite to see the show AND have a chance to when an [adult swim] prize pack!
From the creatrix between Wonder Showzen & Xavier: Renegade Angel was born The Heart, She Holler—a soap opera about people who don’t use no soap and ain’t never seen no opera. Come sneak a peak into the privy that is Season 2. Ask the most important question of star Patton Oswalt – Why?!?!? Why is our collective nightmares a pile of deep fried trash?
Beer, friends, and complicated relationships. Sound familiar?
Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They’re perfect for each other, except that they’re both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
Sleaze it up this September with THE DEUCE hits its new digs at Nitehawk Cinema – with VICE SQUAD and the hallowed Harris Theater! Star GARY SWANSON in person!
The VICE SQUAD screening be welcomed by Jeff Cashvan and will feature a theater history lecture by Archivist & Historian, Andrew McCarthy, a raffle, and an after-party with a DJ Bones in the downstairs bar (complimentary beer special for ticket holders)!
Hot off the heels of his weird and wonderful horror hit – Dead & Buried – director Gary Sherman turns his lens on the lasciviousness of the L.A. underbelly in VICE SQUAD! Druggies and degenerates! Freaks, floozies and Fredrick’s of Hollywood! Pimps, prosties and perverts! Runaways and way-out wackos! VICE SQUAD visits the mean streets with an engaging mix of Exploitation and Social Realism – getting the details of the detritus straight from those whose world it reveals. Trolling through the “neon slime” of Los Angeles, Wings Hauser IS Ramrod!! A pimp with an anger problem – “psychopath” is putting it mildly… Season Hubley’s sensitive soon-to-quit prostitute, Princess, navigates the sex gutters of Hollyweird to help desperate Detective Gary Swanson put an end to Ramrod’s mean streak – and to settle a score of her own… Sherman serves up a smorgasbord of the sleazy – as well as a somewhat loving look at L.A.’s lonesome losers, boozers, users, and midnight cruisers… A well crafted feast of a stew of sex, serious drama, and social morality – full of fine acting and fast, furious action – the demanding denizens of the Deuce got their money’s worth and more when this hit the screen of the Harris – VICE SQUAD… it’ll shatter your senses!
Part of THE DEUCE series at Nitehawk.
Part of the VICE Presents: The Film Foundation Screening Series at Nitehawk Cinema. Includes a recorded introduction by Patti Podesta, Production Designer who designed the KUBRICK exhibition at LACMA.
As Stanley Kubrick’s first large-scale feature made at the tender age of 28 and based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory depicts the horrors of Europe in its harsh portrayal of the French Army in WWI (a depiction that would see the film banned in France until 1975).
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
-Thomas Gray – “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard“
Paths of Glory reveals power and class struggles through the representation of the hierarchical nature of the military and its sanctioning of soldiers (i.e. the lower class) as disposable figures. When tasked with a suicide mission to capture a well-defended German fortification, General Mireau (George Macready) deals with the inevitable failure of this mission and the subsequent retreating of his men by court-marshaling three of the soldiers. Régiment Colonel Dax (in a career performance by Kirk Douglas), who knew the mission was destined to disaster, defends these three men but to no avail. In an ending that expresses the futility of war and the simultaneous experience of life and death, beauty and horror, Paths of Glory is the truest of anti-war films.
Paths of Glory stands about from the scope and technical focus inherent in Kubrick’s future works by being very tight, precise, and exceptional emotional. It may not be his most well known work but it’s certainly one of the most power and one that foretells incredible vision by an extraordinarily talented director.
*A portion of each ticket sale goes towards The Film Foundation. Tickets also include complimentary Larceny Bourbon drinks at an after-party in Nitehawk’s downstairs bar!
PATHS OF GLORY (1958, director Stanley Kubrick)
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. with funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation.
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Also courtesy of Park Circus Limited.
The Grandmaster is a Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts drama film based on the life story of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man (the man who trained Bruce Lee).
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Wong Kar Wai, The Grandmaster is an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China’s last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Filmed in a range of stunning locations that include the snow-swept landscapes of Northeast China and the subtropical South, The Grandmaster features virtuoso performances by some of the greatest stars of contemporary Asian cinema, including Tony Leung and Ziyi Zhang.
Written and directed by Lake Bell, In a World… is a hilarious and heart-felt comedy about a struggling vocal coach who strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry’s reigning king—her father. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
In a World… also stars Fred Melamed (A Serious Man), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Demetri Martin (“Important Things with Demetri Martin”), Michaela Watkins (“Enlightened”), Ken Marino (“Burning Love”), Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”), Alexandra Holden (The Hot Chick) and Tig Notaro (“The Sarah Silverman Program”).
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
Writer/director David Lowery weaves this 1970s poetic drama centered on the journey of a notorious outlaw who breaks out of prison to reunite with his beloved wife, and the daughter he’s never met. Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie were two outlaws on the run when their crime spree came to a sudden end deep in the Texas hills. When the gun smoke cleared following a shootout with police, a local officer lay critically wounded by deadeye Ruth. Determined to save his love from getting thrown behind bars, however, Bob claims responsibility for the shot, and receives a stiff prison sentence. A few years later, when Bob learns that Ruth has given birth to their daughter, he makes a daring escape, and flees to be with them at any cost. (New York Times)
