OPENS APRIL 12TH. A standing couples brunch goes from dealing with each other’s personal dramas to dealing with the sudden possibility that the world is ending.
If there’s one thing that The Twilight Zone taught us it’s that people’s true nature tends to come out during the pending apocalypse, and it isn’t always pretty. It’s a Disaster embraces this idea with a more comedic tone as eight couples meet for their monthly brunch that goes from personal therapy session to coping with the word’s end in a matter of hours. What emerges through this often hilarious process between friends is revealing. I mean, what would you do if the end came knocking at your door?
Starring: Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Kyle MacLachlan
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What lengths will a drifter-turned-stripper-turned-showgirl go to achieve her dreams of Vegas stardom?
To know this film is to love this film. What is it that can be said about Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls except that it is probably one of the most memorable films to come out of the 1990s. Elizabeth Berkley (from Saved by the Bell fame) plays Nomi, a young dancer who moved to Las Vegas to make it big. She gets her chance and trips, claws, and sleeps her way to the top only to discover that there’s a heart underneath that stripper facade. Gina Gershon is magical as the “aging” and manipulative Cristol Conner while Kyle MacLachlan moves from Lynch-weird to Verhoeven-weird status. You know what I mean.
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Nitehawk launches its NASTIES series with recent French horror film, Inside (À l’intérieur). A young pregnant widow plays host to a persistent and deadly uninvited guest who wants her baby.
There is nothing subtle about Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s 2007 French horror film Inside. Pregnant and suffering the loss of her husband after a car accident, Sarah is despondent and uninterested in the baby she’s about to have. So, she spends her last night before giving birth, alone, at Christmas time…or so she thinks. An unidentified woman knocks at the door and proceeds to tear Sarah’s world apart. Guests come back into the house but none leave. Inside is brutal and unrelenting but also very powerful in its showing of how motherly instincts can take a woman. Seeing Inside on the big screen is a must.
Inner Space is a LIVE SOUND CINEMA event featuring a live score by Morricone Youth.
Explore Australia’s vast underwater life depicted in Inner Space to the sounds of Morricone Youth. Featuring narration by Dominic Engel.
With National Geographic features, numerous documentaries, and scenes featured in major Hollywood motion pictures like Jaws, Orca, and The Blue Lagoon in their fifty-year career, husband and wife team Ron and Val Taylor are hugely respected and prolific underwater filmmakers. But it’s the Taylors’ undersea footage of sharks, coral, and other marine exploration from the 1970s as the focus of this legendary Australian television series that will really blow your mind; especially as this amazing imagery is screened to the live original score by New York’s Morricone Youth.
Morricone Youth is a New York City septet formed in 1999 dedicated to performing and recording old film and television soundtrack and library production music.
God, the Devil, and a man’s mortal soul. F.W. Murnau’s silent film Faust will be feature an original live score by Gersh/Reed.
Faust is a hauntingly beautiful piece of early silent cinema as only F.W. Murnau could create. Mephisto is a demon who bets an Archangel that if he can corrupt the soul of a righteous man then the Devil will have dominion over Earth. Target: the old alchemist Faust. So, Mephisto sends a deadly plague into Faust’s town who, when he is unable to stop the spread of death, burns many books, including a bible. Needless to say, trickery is involved, souls are sold, and hearts are stolen at an Easter church service but the question is…who actually wins the wager?
Notably, this is F.W. Murnau’s last German film before his relocated to Hollywood.
Nitehawk’s new signature series ART SEEN launches with Orson Welles’ filmic documentary on fraud and fakery, F for Fake.
There is no other film quite like Orson Welles’ F for Fake. Based in the story of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his infamous biographer Clifford Irving (author of the controversial and fake Howard Hughes biography), this pseudo-documentary is a magic trick all its own. Juxtaposing the real life narratives of these “fakes” with fictional montages featuring Welles, F for Fake is a devious exploration begging the audience to question: what’s real here?
Before the film: our “Artist Film Club” will be screening the video work Untitled #142 (Bob Coe from Wasco) by artist Josh Azzarella. We will also show Emily’s Video by Eva and Franco Mattes that was selected by Nitehawk as part of our partnership with Moving Image Art Fair.
About Art Seen: Nitehawk’s Art Seen is a unique monthly art-focused program showing artist documentaries, the art world in film, and artist-directed features. Screening before each Art Seen film is our “Artist Film Club” where Nitehawk programmers and guest curators present an artist moving image program. Art Seen aims to introduce and revisit some of these fantastic lives lived in the world of art as seen on film.
Starring: Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Quintin Adams
The Sandlot is a touching film about a young boy who moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad which of course means new friends, new obstacles, and a new outlook on life. The story is told from the perspective of main character Scotty Smalls as he recounts his first Los Angeles summer in 1962 when he befriended a group of boys who played impromptu baseball in a little spot known as the sandlot. Scotty learns lots of things during the summer, most importantly being how to deal with The Beast, the dog beyond the sandlot who devours home-run baseballs. As many baseball stories imbue, The Sandlot teaches the value and long-lasting value of friendship and teamwork in the formative years. Play Ball!
Starring: Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Vic Morrow
Walter Matthau is Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic and former minor league baseball playing tasked with coaching the worst little league team in all of Southern California, The Bears. Comprised of such talents as a near-sighted pitcher, an overweight catcher, and a foul-mouthed shortstop, The Bears need a little help and it comes in the form of Amanda Whurlizer (gasp, a girl!) played by Tatum O’Neal. With a sharp tongue and top-notch pitching skills, she helps the unlikely bunch get into the playoffs. All wrapped up in the politics and community of baseball, the kids in The Bad News Bears act like adults while the adults act like kids and all have a lot of growing up to do. Play Ball!
Starring: Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, John Lovitz
Who says girls can’t play baseball? Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own takes a comedic look at the sexes through the development of America’s first professional baseball league during World War II.
A League of Their Own is a fictionalized (and funny) version of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during WWII. In the film, candy manufacturer Walter Harvey (Gary Marshall) realizes that while the men are overseas fighting, baseball needs to remain America’s favorite pastime. So he starts the Rockford Peaches team getting sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty), “All the Way” Mae Mordabito (Madonna) and her best friend, Doris Murphy (Rosie O’Donnell), along with other talented ladies. Tom Hanks plays the washed-up baseball star Jimmy Dugan who coaches the team and, along with rising star Dottie, makes the team beloved to fans.
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, James Franco, Gucci Mane
Spring Break forever, bitches!
Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning… During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges.
Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. Rough on the outside but with a soft spot inside, Alien wins over the hearts of the young Spring Breakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined.
