A life re-evaluation ensues when the BAD LIEUTENANT investigates a rape charge.
A 35mm presentation.
Harvey Keitel is the Lieutenant, a corrupt cop steeped in gambling debt who exploits his authority to sexually harass teenage girls, embezzle money and abuse drugs. His troubles come to a head when a mob lackey delivers an ultimatum: pay off his debt, or else. His fate appears sealed but when he learns that a $50,000 reward is being offered to whoever catches a pair of thugs who raped a nun, he jumps at the opportunity, hoping that he can still redeem himself.
Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.
Andrew Dice Clay keeps it lewd and crude in front of a sold out stadium in DICE RULES. Presented in 35mm!
“[REDACTED]” – Andrew Dice Clay
Stand up comedy is frequently a not-nice affair and Andrew Dice Clay remains one of the not-nicest comedians to take the stage. Dice Rules captures the equal-opportunity offender and anti-PC crusader (that’s a stretch, but…whatever) at the height of his power: in front of a raucous and record-breaking crowd at Madison Square Garden (he was the first comic to sell out back-to-back shows at the Garden), Dice glides through a gleefully crude set that flops around our basest instincts, sending the crowd into a total tizzy.
Part of Nitehawk’s summer program COMEDIANS IN FILM (Stand Up/Stand Up Companion).
Nitehawk Naughties time travels to 1968 for a Parisian menage-a-trois with THE DREAMERS (a 35mm presentation). Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland!
THE MODERN: THE DREAMERS (Un film de BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI)
When young American exchange student named Matthew (Michael Pitt) meets twins Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green) during the May 1968 protest over the firing of Cinémathèque Francaise founder Henri Langlois they discover a mutual love of film and each other. Matthew’s stay with the twins alone in their bohemian home sets into motion a summer of sexual fantasy amongst the rather violent reality of the student protests occurring. While it didn’t leave as much of a controversial footprint as Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci’s The Dreamers has a similar tone in that it features a taboo sexual odyssey, hinting at incest, between relative strangers during a short period of time. Importantly, it is also a love letter to cinema itself, mimicking another infamous Parisian threesome film, Jean-Luc Godard’ Bande à part (Band of Outsiders).
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.
Nitehawk Naughties spends some quality time in an apartment with two sexually involved strangers in LAST TANGO IN PARIS (a 35mm presentation).
Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland! Plus, The Strand will be on hand to sell a curated selection of erotic before the screening!
THE CLASSIC: LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Un film de BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI)
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris caused controversy upon its initial release in 1972, seeing it banned in numerous countries, receiving an X rating in the United States, and the director going on trial for obscenity in Italy. Despite this, the film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor. More than forty years later, Last Tango in Paris is iconic; a classic that shows the palpable loneliness of two strangers trying to connect, and feel alive, only through anonymous sexual encounters. Their clandestine meeting occurs when they view the same Parisian apartment that’s for rent. There, Paul (Marlon Brando), an American businessman reeling from the suicide of his wife, convinces Jeanne (Maria Schneider), a young affianced French woman, to embark on a strictly physical relationship in that apartment without knowing each other’s name or life story. Needless to say, it doesn’t end well.
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.
Vilgot Sjöman’s film about a young woman exploring 1960s Sweden and her sexual identity is considered one of the most controversial movies of all time.
Starring Sjöman and Lena Nyman, I Am Curious (Yellow) is a landmark film from and about Swedish society during the sexual revolution. It was seized by customs in the United States, igniting a heated court battle, influencing censorship laws while being banned in numerous cities. You may also remember the film from Don Draper being “scandalized” by it on Mad Men.
In his book, Scandinavian Blue, Jack Stevenson says, “…this film was about more than creative freedom or nudity. It was an experiment in form and content, an attempt to break down the barrier between reality and fiction and a bid to demystify the filmmaking process. It would be a lot of different things all at once; a rumination on modern youth, a take on the state of Swedish society and a check-list of Sjöman’s own personal hang-ups. And not least it was an occasionally poignant story about a confused and conflicted teenage girl who, armed with a tape recorder, youthful indignation and a yen to fantasize, goes out onto the streets to find answers.”
Part of the Nitehawk Naughties SCANDINAVIAN EROTIC CINEMA program.
Malastrana Film Series is thrilled to announce two special midnight screenings of Umberto Lenzi’s PARANOIA at Nitehawk as part of “The Killer Must Kill Again! aka Giallo Fever! Part 2” (March 20-29, Anthology Film Archives). Screening in 35mm!
Originally titled ORGASMO in Italian, PARANOIA is the first installment of the prolific genre director Umberto Lenzi’s Giallo Sexy trilogy. In this classic psychological thriller, an erotic triangle develops when an American actress played by the beautiful Carroll Baker retires to an Italian villa after her husband’s sudden death, and becomes a target of the seductive Lou Castel (of “Fists in the Pocket” fame) and his dubious sister played by Colette Descombes. Part Diabolique and part Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Lenzi infuses this claustrophobic nightmare with a dose of his unique blend of sleaze and tension, bringing it to culminate in its final explosion. If Lenzi’s masterful camerawork is not enough to drive you to the brink of madness, Piero Umiliani’s eccentric main theme is sure to do the job.
About the festival: They are back in town! Armed with sharper knives, shinier leather gloves and even more deranged motives, THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN! aka GIALLO FEVER PART 2 picks up where the first series left off, bringing 12 classic and under-screened Italian gialli to the Big Apple in rare 35mm prints. Part 2 expands on this highly inventive genre, showcasing films by Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Aldo Lado, Umberto Lenzi, Giulio Questi and Luigi Bazzoni.
For more information on the series, please visit Anthology Film Archives!
An idyllic weekend of peace and quiet turns deadly for two college friends in HIGH TENSION.
A throwback to the grittiness of horror films from the 1970s, Alexandre Aja’s High Tension (Haute Tension) shows two best friends, Marie and Alex, who arrive at the country home of Alex’s parents for a quiet weekend of studying. And it all starts off very nicely until a homicidal delivery man (Phillippe Nahon from Gasper Noe film fame) arrives killing everyone, kidnapping Alex but unable to find the hidden Marie. What ensues next is a tense and extremely brutal game of cat-and-mouse in real splatter-style with an incredible twist ending that will undoubtedly shock you.
Part of Nitehawk’s FINAL GIRL October program.
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating. It begins with NYMPHOMANIAC (Volume One).
NYMPHOMANIAC is the wild and poetic story of a woman’s journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), finds Joe beaten up in an alley. He brings her home to his flat where he cares for her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushy branched-out and multifaceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents.
Nitehawk brings you the new restoration of Abel Ferrara’s classic rape-and-revenge film, MS. 45 for one weekend at midnite!
Abel Ferrara’s (Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York) 1981 revenge thriller classic Ms. 45 follows a mute garment-district seamstress (played by the late by the late model/actress/musician/screenwriter Zoë Lund) who after falling victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, ignites her one-woman homicidal rampage against New York City’s entire male population. Now remastered in HD from the original negative materials, Ms. 45 has returned to theaters and to Nitehawk at midnite!
The story of a young lesbian couple’s beginning, middle and possible end.
Abdellatif Kechiche’s newest film, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation. Blue pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, some verbal and some physical.
