Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward

Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) has is all until one day he interrupts a brutal attack on his wife, gets blamed for it, gets convicted, escapes jail as his bus is hijacked by fellow inmates and so on and so on. While on the lam and evading Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), Kimble realizes the only way to save his skin is to find the real killer! Harrison Ford is at his gruffy intelligent best into this Academy-Award nominated feature based of the successful 1960s television series of the same name.

Man has created a machine. Now the machine wants to create a man.

Based on a novel by Dean Koontz, Donald Cammell’s Demon Seed is a science-fiction thriller that places the future of horror back into the everyday space of the home.

After her estranged husband Fritz leaves for work, Susan (Julie Christie) becomes imprisoned and eventually impregnated by Proteus IV, an artificial intelligence system designed by her husband that contains organic materials and, get this, the power of thought. Proteus wants to be free so he escapes the lab finding the one available portal to him – Fritz’s house. The future of power over women is here. What’s probably most intriguing about Demon Seed is that addresses what it means to be human and become human.

Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Edgar Bergen, Milton Berle, James Coburn, Elliott Gould, Bob Hope, Carol Kane, Cloris Leachman

The only thing that can stop Kermit the Frog’s fame and fortune in glamorous Hollywood is a persistent and slimy frog-leg merchant. But Kermit’s motley crew of friends – Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, The Great Gonzo, Animal – won’t let anything happen to their friend as they head cross-country to tinseltown. Cameos abound on this Muppet adventure, including Orson Welles, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Elliott Gould, Madeline Kahn, Bob Hope and Milton Berle.

Great fun for the lovers and dreamers… and the whole family!

With an introduction by Adam Lowenstein, author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film, and free “Green Beast” cocktails by Pernod Absinthe!

Death does not deter a young soldier from returning home after being killed in Vietnam.

I died for you…the least you can do is die for me.

Bob Clark (of Black Christmas and A Christmas Story fame) reworks the parable “A Monkey’s Paw” into post-Vietnam suburbia in Deathdream (also known as Dead of Night). Deathdream plays out the horrors coming home after Vietnam along with other horror films of the era like like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Last House on the Left but does so as a ghost story. In the beginning scene we see Andy Brooks killed in a Vietnam battle while his mother refuses to believe that his lack of communication means he is dead. Much to his family’s surprise, Andy shows up on their doorstep but something is terribly amiss. Starring Faces couple John Marley and Lynn Carlin, Deathdream puts to task America’s reluctance to deal with the trauma it brings upon itself while also showing the limitless boundaries of family love.

Thanks to Pernod Absinthe for the complimentary “The Green Beast” cocktails!

The Navigator with an “Our Gang” short
Live Musical Score by GERSH/REED/KNOCHE
Featuring a very special Valentine’s Day themed pre-show movie kissing montage.

A series of missteps on the spoiled voyage of love.

Some of Buster Keaton’s most elaborate stunts are in his love-sick/sea-sick oceanic tale, The Navigator. Keaton’s character Rollo Treadway is a wealthy man whose rejected marriage proposal to neighbor Betsy O’Brien (Kathryn McGuire) doesn’t stop his desire to go on his Hawaiian honeymoon alone. As you can expect, something amiss happens…he boards the wrong boat, Besty’s father’s boat, who is being held captive on board. Betsey also boards and when the two non-lovers meet, the adventure really begins.

Before The Navigator we’ll be screening a silent short featuring everyone’s favorite mischievous children known as The Little Rascals aka Our Gang.

Starring: Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn

In this Orwellian tale, an unstoppable cyborg called “The Terminator” (Arnold Schwarzenegger) time-travels from a post-apocalyptic 2029 Los Angeles to 1984 with a mission to eliminate Sarah Conner. You see, Sarah Conner needs to be assassinated before she gives birth to a son who will lead the 21st century human rebels to victory after the tyrannical machines! But it won’t be easy, not only are there multiple “Sarah Conners” in the phonebook (how quaint) and a member of the human resistance movement (Michael Biehn) also returns from the future to help save her. Sarah is also pretty bad ass herself and ultimately terminates the terminator…or does she? As Arnie famously declares, “I’ll be baaaack…”

Starring: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestley

Tombstone is Hollywood’s historical depiction of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Crime, corruption, the law and the outlaw collide as former lawman Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday head on West for a new life in Tombstone, Arizona for a peaceful retirement. Unfortunately, the Canton Brothers have different plans so Earp and Co. have to the sort of band of outsiders they’d put away while working as “the man.”

Take a trip back to early 1980s with this compilation of twenty-six powerful live performances by the eras best Punk, New Wave, and Post-Punk bands.

Pre-party for Urgh! in Nitehawk’s street level bar at 10pm on both nights…Nitehawk teams up with Network Awesome for a very special screening of WOMEN IN PUNK at 10pm on Friday and Saturday. FREE entry and FREE Mike’s Hard Lemonade (until supplies last).

No narration and no text, just full-on performance. Urgh! A Music War features artists: The Police, Wall of Voodoo, Toyah Willcox, John Cooper Clarke, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Chelsea, Oingo Boingo, Echo & the Bunnymen, Jools Holland, XTC, Klaus Nomi, Athletico Spizz 80, The Go-Go’s, Dead Kennedys, Steel Pulse, Gary Numan, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Magazine, Surf Punks, The Members, Au Pairs, The Cramps, Invisible Sex, Pere Ubu, Devo, The Alley Cats, John Otway, Gang of Four, 999, The Fleshtones, X, Skafish, Splodgenessabounds, UB40, and Klaus Nomi.

Valhalla Rising is a LIVE SOUND CINEMA event featuring a live score by Black Lodge.

A 1000 A.D. enslaved Norse warrior named One-Eye finds redemption in vengeance.

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising shows us a grey atmospheric landscape peppered with blood in which hell is a place on earth. Set in the Middle Ages, the films centers around the journey of an unbeatable Norse warrior named One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen) from enslaved fighting to involvement with the Christian Crusades and, ultimately, to his poetic death. At once stylishly modern and hauntingly of the past, Valhalla Rising is a brutal (and beautiful) representation mankind’s vengeful appetite for war and religious domination.

Black Lodge, lead by guitarist/composer Geoff Gersh, is a collective of musicians who re-score films then perform live to the film. Performers for Valhalla Rising are: Eric Hubel (guitars), Josh Matthews (drums/percussion/metal), Bradford Reed (drums/percussion/metal) and Geoff Gersh (composer/guitars)

B-movie sound recordist Jack Terry (John Travolta) becomes an unsuspecting witness when he unwittingly finds himself involved in a murder mystery.

While out last one night recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, Jack Terry becomes embroiled in a thriller of his own after saving a young woman’s life from what he believes to only be a car accident. Turns out that he has captured something incriminating on audio and starts to have feelings towards the woman…and that’s when things start to get weird. A movie-within-a-movie, Blow Out shares with the audience a sense of adventure and discovery as we realize who Jack can or cannot trust. As ever with De Palma, style is content and we see this through his usage of split screens, elaborate tracking shots, and Hitchcock influence. Blow Out is one of his best.

Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS – BRIAN DE PALMA series.