Starring: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen

This film is guaranteed to deliver that holiday spirit for all those dreaming of a white Christmas! Singers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty and Judy Haynes (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly, the boys’ commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing because there’s not a snowflake in site! So what’s the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle via a fun-filled musical extravaganza that’s sure to put Waverly and his business in the black!

Starring: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri, Kim Tae-ri, Lee Yong-nyeo

From Park Chan-wook, the celebrated director of Old Boy, Lady Vengeance, and Stoker, comes a ravishing new crime drama. Park presents a gripping and sensual tale of two women – a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of a large inheritance. Inspired by the novel Fingersmith by British author Sarah Waters, The Handmaiden borrows the most dynamic elements of its source material and combines it with Park Chan-wook’s singular vision to create an unforgettable viewing experience.

For the Christmas edition of the KEVIN GEEKS OUT show, comedian Kevin Maher and his guests look at their favorite Holiday Specials, from the obvious to the obscure. This two-hour video variety show will stuff your stocking memorable moments from movies and tv specials. 

NOTE: this is an all-new Kevin Geeks Out, not an encore of the 2015 Christmas show. 

Guests include: 
Erin Farrell (cinephile, video editor) 
Wendy Mays (host, PET CINEMATARY podcast) 
Paul Murphy (filmmaker, RED OBSESSION) 
Steve Flack (tv editor and trivia champion)

Nitehawk’s CRIME series extends into November as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of John Huston’s classic THE MALTESE FALCON.

Nominated for three Academy Awards, including “Best Picture,” The Maltese Falcon is the film noir classic starring Humphrey Bogart as tough San Francisco private detective Sam Spade. The film details this classic story of Spade’s involvement with a deadly band of international thieves who will lie, double-cross, and murder to obtain a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as the Maltese Falcon.Spade’s (Bogart) partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan), accepts a job protecting a young woman (Mary Astor). Neither Spade nor Archer believe the woman or the story she tells them, but they do believe her money. Then, when Archer is murdered, Spade’s search for the killer drags him in the web of lies and death spun by the desperate people seeking the now-famous statue.

The MATINEE ONE section at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival features eight short films that deal with family and finding one’s place in the world.

Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a special screening of THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION with director Penelope Spheeris!

Q&A with Penelope Spheeris following the film.

Penelope Spheeris’s notorious deep dive into Los Angeles punk culture circa 1980 in The Decline of Western Civilization. The film hit like a bomb on its release in 1981, stirring up such a controversy that the LAPD Chief of Police wrote the filmmaker asking her not to show it again in the city. Along with interviews from band members, the film prominently features raw, bloody, spit-covered performances by groups like Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, X and more.

Part of Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN signature series.

Wouldn’t it be better if everyone would just die…?

The war between humans and angels is over. The remaining teenage pilots of the massive mecha that saved humanity – the Evangelions – rest warily at home in Tokyo-3. As the emotionally shredded and physically shattered pilots attempt cobble their lives back together, a former ally stages a violent coup that threatens to bring an end to all life on Earth.

The theatrical finale to Hideaki Anno’s crossover sensation, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion is an ambitious and often troubling conclusion that explores themes of abandonment, singularity, and adolescent sexuality. This ain’t your daddy’s apocalypse.

Part of Nitehawk’s November ANIME AFTER DARK 2 midnite series.

The creator of Macross and the creator of Cowboy Bebop team up on one of the best animated and best scored sci-fi action films to ever come out of Japan: MACROSS PLUS.

A high-octane high-flyer with a killer soundtrack, Macross Plus follows a pair of high school rivals turned test pilots – Isamu and Guld – as they compete over a fat government contract in the skies above their home world. On the ground, their mutual schoolyard love – Myung – quietly returns home as the producer of the galaxy’s most popular singer, the computer generated Sharon Apple. Myung’s return sparks a long-dormant affection between the three, but an unspoken trauma prevents them from making peace. As the war games rage on and their passions intensify, an illegal computer chip inserted into Sharon causes her to become sentient, threatening Myung’s life and turning the for-play war above into one for-keeps.

Technically detailed and oozing with style, Macross Plus is a child of two minds. The business of million-missile space battles belongs to Shoji Kawamori, the creator of the original Macross TV series; while the film’s heart, tone and soundtrack comes from its co-director, Shinichiro Watanabe, who would go on to create other cheeky, beat-heavy titles like Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy.

Part of Nitehawk’s November ANIME AFTER DARK 2 midnite series.

Nitehawk Cinema offers a sneak preview of the first two episodes of A&E Network’s gritty new docu- series THE KILLING SEASON. Filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills will be here for a Q&A!

A&E Network’s gritty new docu- series “The Killing Season” from Executive Producer Alex Gibney is an immersive series that follows documentarians, Joshua Zeman (Cropsey) and Rachel Mills, as they investigate one of the most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases of our time — the deaths of ten sex workers discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Authorities believe these killings are the work of theLong Island Serial Killer, who after five years remains at large. Forging relationships with cyber-sleuths, journalists and victim’s families, Zeman and Mills uncover connections that suggest Long Island is just the beginning

This gripping eight-episode series is a deep-dive into a world of serial murder rarely seen before, going beyond pop-culture stereotypes to expose a broken system and real-life American nightmare. However, with the help of Websleuths.com and data journalists, Zeman and Mills learn that everyday citizens can make a difference — by uncovering clues that police cannot, in hopes that one day, “The Killing Season” will end.

“The Killing Season” is produced for A&E Network by Jigsaw Productions & Gigantic Pictures. The series is directed by Joshua Zeman. Executive producers for Jigsaw Productions are Alex Gibney, Joshua Zeman, Rachel Mills, Stacey Offman, and Dave Snyder, and Co-Executive Producers are Brad Hebert, Richard Perello and Showrunner Ben Parry. Executive producers for A&E are Shelly Tatro and Brad Abramson.

“The Killing Season” premieres with back-to-back episodes on Saturday, November 12 at 9pm EST.

Drop into a North Pole research base with Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS special winter screening of the best science fiction film of the 1950s, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD! 

Screening beforehand is Object Cinema by Darren banks; an artist film about the life cycle of The Thing an idea and its many material and immaterial filmic forms. Giveaways courtesy of Out of Print and The Strand. Featuring an after-party courtesy of Reyka Vodka!

BOOK DRIVE! We’ll also be hosting a book drive with Books Through Bars for dictionaries and science-fiction/graphic novels to send to incarcerated people across the nation. Please note that paperbacks and books free of marketing are best.

Book: The Thing From Another World is first film adaptation of John Campbell Jr.’s short story, “Wh o Goes There?” 
Booze: Inspired Reyka Vodka cocktail 

When scientist Dr. Carrington reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry to investigate. What they find is a wrecked spaceship and a humanoid creature frozen in the ice. They bring their discovery back to the base, but Carrington and Hendry disagree over what to do with it. Meanwhile, the creature is accidentally thawed and begins wreaking havoc.