Starring: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Dennis Franz
There’s no such thing as coincidence in Brian De Palma’s homage to Vertigo and Rear Window.
Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is a claustrophobic b-movie actor who had to couch surf after finding his girlfriend in bed with another woman. You’d think that would be enough adventure for one man but he has a whole lot more in store for him when he starts spying on a beautiful exhibitionist across the street from his friend’s apartment.
The Found Footage Festival and TV Carnage present the action-packed seventh edition of their wildly popular and wildly unpredictable VHS-based variety show at Nitehawk.
January’s official stellar lineup will be announced soon but you can certainly count on new and never-before-seen VHS goodies from the Found Footage Festival and TV Carnage vaults.
Starring: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Written and directed by visionary Leos Carax, Holy Motors is a startlingly unique meld of monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller and anime. Spend a few hours with Monsieur Oscar in the city of lights as he transforms into multiple characters – assassin, beggar, family man – on a series of mysterious appointments. Accompanied only by his blond driver Celine, he is in pursuit of the beautiful gesture, the mysterious driving force, the women and the ghosts of past lives.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
When talented computer engineer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) finds out that Ed Dillinger (David Warner), an executive at his company, has been stealing his work, he tries to hack into the system. However, Flynn is transported into the digital world, where he has to face off against Dillinger’s computerized likeness, Sark, and the imposing Master Control Program. Aided by Tron (Bruce Boxleitner) and Yori (Cindy Morgan), Flynn becomes a freedom fighter for the oppressed programs of the grid.
Heroes in a half-shell….TURTLE POWER!
Named after four Renaissance artists, four anthropomorphic turtles (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello) are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the power of speech and upward mobility fight crime in New York! Tutored by their sensei, a giant rat name Splinter, the shelled ninja warriors must battle the evil Shredder who is out to destroy the world. Based closely off of the original dark comics series, the gang also live in the New York sewers system and are obsessed with pizza. You just can’t make this stuff up!
Cowabunga!
John Hawkes stars in a story of triumph over disability that takes the form of an uplifting sex comedy.
Mark, a wry and chatty 38-year-old (John Hawkes), just wants to get laid. One small problem: he has polio and is paralyzed from the neck down. First, he must get the permission of his priest, Father Brendan (William H. Macy) who weighs the cosmic scales and declares, “In my heart I believe He will give you a free pass on this one.” Then, he has to find a willing partner. She turns out to be Cheryl (Helen Hunt), a married woman and mother who works as a sexual surrogate, helping the disabled and the mentally challenged to explore their sexuality.
The heart of The Sessions is the scenes between Mark and Cheryl, which are uncommonly frank about sex and nudity, and lay out the mechanics of Cheryl’s work in precise detail. Hawkes, who has earned much acclaim for playing creeps and cretins recently (Winter’s Bone, Martha Marcy May Marlene) achieves the seemingly impossible here, capturing the depth and soul of a thoughtful, charming poet using only his face. Hunt is even better as a woman who has no problem taking off her clothes for strangers, but can’t have a single honest conversation with the husband who takes her for granted.
