Comedian Kevin Maher observes Halloween a few days early with this celebration of director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist, Lifeforce).
With Special Guests:
Heather Buckley (producer, Red Shirt Pictures, writer, FANGORIA)
John Cribbs (writer from ThePinkSmoke.com)
Matt Glasson (editor/filmmaker LOVE STALKER)
Matthew Hurwitz (cartoonist at DangerBurger.com, writer at VideoFugue.com)
Edwin Samuelson (DVD/Blu-Ray Special Features producer at Samuelson Studios)
Amber Nigro (Kevin Geeks Out About Deadly Women)
Nitehawk Cinema invites you to a very special – and secret! – screening of the concert, transferred to DCP projection. Join us.
After-party with DJ Boogalow in Lo-Res Bar!
Chiba, Japan, April 13, 1990: Entertainment history changed forever when Madonna – at the pinnacle of her unprecedented, megawatt career – launched her Blond Ambition World Tour… considered by many to be the greatest music spectacle of all time. Armored with Gaultier’s platinum corset and leading a platoon of backup singers and dancers, Madonna unleashes a salvo of pop-punk transubstantiation: provocation, confession, redemption, salvation … a masterfully conceived four-act interpretation of seventeen colossal hits … a catharsis of divine exhibitionism and showmanship.
Originally broadcast on HBO on August 5, 1990, M’s last performance – in Nice, France – became the highest-viewed special event in the cable channel’s history, with 4.5 million viewers tuning in. Hastily released the following year on laserdisc, the concert has since fallen out of print, and remains the Holy Grail for Madonna’s legions of fans.
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a special screening of MISS SHARON JONES: DREAMS. Featuring a Q&A with Sharon Jones!
Just added: Matinee screening on Sunday, September 25 also featuring Sharon Jones!
Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band “Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.” In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.
TENEBRE is an Italian murder mystery by the giallo master Dario Argento.
A 35mm screening. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive
Knives, black gloves, and a killer score; that’s giallo cinema to the core. In Argento’s Tenebre, a writer Peter Neal is pulled into a murder mystery as someone familiar with his work begins a series of killings while visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel. While the police look into the crimes, Neal investigates on his own, aided by his beautiful assistant, Anne, and a tenacious young local named Gianni. As the murderer brutally dispatches of other victims, Neal gets closer to discovering the psychopath’s identity.
Part of Nitehawk’s Halloween INTERNATIONAL SLASHER midnite series.
Comedian Kevin Maher hosts a video variety show about cinema’s deadliest women.
The evening of clips and commentary explores character types including: homicidal heroines, lady vigilantes, roving girl gangs and female assassins. Plus a celebration of lesbian vampires, mystical crones, bad seed daughters and femme fatale robots. All this and a salute to Pam Grier!
Featuring presentations by:
Jon Abrams (editor-in-chief, DAILY GRINDHOUSE.com)
Travis Alexandra Boatright (award-winning costume designer)
Amber Dextrous (Friend of KGO)
Tenebrous Kate (host of the podcast BAD BOOKS FOR BAD PEOPLE)
Kevin Rice (writer/producer/director of TV’s GHOUL A GO-GO)
Rommel Wood (NPR producer for ASK ME ANOTHER, host of EAR HAMMER on Radio Free Brooklyn)
Starring: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 British silent film THE LODGER with a live score by MORRICONE YOUTH!
A Jack-the-Ripper type murderer called “The Avenger” is terrorizing London by targeting young blond women. How Hitchcockian! At the same time of these attacks, a mysterious man takes a room at the a family-owned boarding house and strikes up a relationship with the proprietor’s pretty blonde daughter. To thicken the plot, she’s engaged to a policeman hot on the trail of “The Avenger” who thinks her Lodger lover is the serial killer! Part of the restored newly restored “Hitchcock Nine” by the British Film Institute, The Lodger is considered the “first true Hitchcock film” and is, obviously, a thrilling way to kick start your Halloween.
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man in ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN!
Featuring frighteningly fun giveaways courtesy of Universal Monsters Universe and Royal Collectibles!
The classics never go out of style! In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum’s director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou’s friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
For one weekend only, Nitehawk presents UNDER THE SUN, the film that shows a rare glimpse into North Korea.
“My father says that Korea is the most beautiful country… Korea is the land of the rising sun,” says eight-year-old schoolgirl Zin-mi. Despite continuous interference by government handlers, director Vitaly Mansky still managed to document life in Pyongyang, North Korea in this fascinating portrait of one girl and her parents in the year as she prepares to join the Korean Children’s Union on the ‘Day Of The Shining Star’ (Kim Jong-Il’s birthday). As the family receives instruction on how to be the ideal patriots, Mansky’s watchful camera capture details from comrades struggling to stay awake during an official event to Zin-mi’s tears at a particularly grueling dance lesson.
Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR presents a screening of DESERT CATHEDRAL, an innovative hybrid narrative about a real estate developer who mysteriously disappears into the desert.
Q&A with writer/director Travis Gutiérrez Senger and actor Lee Tergesen, moderated by Tilson Allen-Merry.
Utilizing actual found footage, Desert Cathedral tells the story of a broken real estate developer, Peter Collins, played by Lee Tergesen (Oz, Generation Kill, Monster), who mysteriously disappears into the Southwest in 1992, leaving behind a series of VHS tapes to his employer and family. Without the aid of the police, his desperate wife (Petra Wright) hires private investigator, Duran Palouse, played by Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga) to locate his whereabouts and bring him home. After the two befriend each other, Peter discovers Duran’s true identity and flees deeper into the depths of the desert where, through a cat-and-mouse chase climax, tragedy strikes.
ART SEEN presents two weekend screenings of DON’T BLINK – ROBERT FRANK, Laura Israel’s portrait of the legendary photographer and filmmaker.
Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographer’s candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism. Today it is a classic work that helped define the off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic elegance that are hallmarks of Frank’s artistry. Director Laura Israel (Frank’s longtime film editor) and producer Melinda Shopsin were given unprecedented access to the notably irascible artist. The assembled portrait is not unlike Frank’s own movies – rough around the edges and brimming with surprises and insights – calling to mind Frank’s quintessential underground movie, the 1959 Beat short, PULL MY DAISY (co-directed by Alfred Leslie). DON’T BLINK includes clips from Frank’s rarely seen movies, among them ME AND MY BROTHER and COCKSUCKER BLUES. The soundtrack includes Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, White Stripes, Yo La Tengo, Tom Waits, and more.
