The perfect murder goes a little insane in Clouzet’s LES DIABOLIQUES.

In this classic of French suspense, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo — his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women, brought together by their mutual hatred for the man, pull off the crime but become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle’s corpse mysteriously disappears.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

A family is stalked by a sadistic criminal in the original CAPE FEAR.

TCM writes that “In the annals of screen psychopaths, there are few who can top Robert Mitchum’s Max Cady in the 1962 version of Cape Fear” and they’re right. After an eight-year prison sentence for rape, Cady one of the lawyers who sent him away. When Max finds Sam and his family, he begins a terrifying stalking spree, intending to ruin Sam’s life. Desperate to protect his wife and daughter, Sam makes every effort to send Max back to jail. But when his attempts fail, Sam realizes that he must take matters into his own hands if he wants to rid his life of Max for good.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

Film’s a killer in Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM.
A 35mm presentation.

Now revered as a British new wave classic, Michael Powell’s career-ending Peeping Tom fetishizes film, the camera, and screening room in what Martin Scorsese has called indulging in the audience’s “morbid urge to gaze.” The film shows Mark Lewis, a socially awkward young man who works in the film industry by day and takes racy films of women at night. But the camera he uses is also an instrument for murder and for recording those murders. His disturbing secret and reason behind his murderous actions are revealed, and healed, when he befriends his neighbor Helen.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

Cult classic revenge at its sexiest: POINT BLANK.
A 35mm presentation.

John Boorman’s Point Blank is a streamlined, sexy, and slick “give me back my money” crime film. Walter is a ruthless crook betrayed by his partner who leaves him for dead on Alcatraz Island. He survives and returns a couple of years later to get revenge with only one thing in mind: retrieving the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him. Point Blank is essential crime film viewing.

Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.

Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a screening of BREAKING A MONSTER.

Q&A with director Luke Meyer, and Unlocking The Truth band members Jarad Dawkins and Malcom Brickhouse.

Breaking a Monster begins as the band members of Unlocking The Truth are all in 7th grade, spending their weekends playing metal music in Times Square – often to substantial crowds. They take on a 70-year-old industry veteran manager. With his guidance they are soon on their way to a $1.8M record deal with Sony Music.

Anything feels possible, and the eyes of the world are upon them. The boys are coming of age, not only as they become professional musicians, but also as they transcend childhood and step into adulthood. The sudden breakout of any band, let alone one of pre-teens, is an extremely narrow and specific period in time – Breaking a Monster is the story of this rapid transformation.

Comedian Kevin Maher and filmmaker Matthew Glasson present an obsessive look at shark movies from Jaws to Sharknado and dozens of films in-between. The hosts revisit early Shark cinema, Jaws rip-offs, sanctioned sequels, CGI monsters, and a hit TV show that literally jumped the shark.

Kevin and Matt have presented on Sharksploition in Boston, Brooklyn and Martha’s Vineyard at JAWSFEST.

With special guests:

• Filmmaker Ryan Arey (“Rick Pulsar: Galactic Knight of Space Justice”)
• Blogger/Podcaster Emily Intravia (DeadlyDollsHouse.Com & The Feminine Critique)
• Comedian Kevin Harrington (Boston’s GEEK WEEK)

ART SEEN presents CALL HER APPLEBROOG, Beth B’s personal documentary on her mother, artist Ida Applebroog.

Screening before the film will be the new frieze video, Eileen Myles: A Poet in the Art World.

This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (Exposed). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. With her daughter’s encouragement, she investigates the stranger that is her former self, a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art. As Beth B finds a deeper understanding of her mother as a human being, Applebroog shares a newfound appreciation for her own provocative work. –MoMA Doc Fortnight

A video variety show all about Star Trek.

Comedian Kevin Maher hates being called a Pop Culture expert because there are subjects he knows little about. Like STAR TREK. So for this month’s show he’s going to sit back and let his guests celebrate the many crews and adventures that occurred under the Star Trek banner. The two-hour video variety show will include clips from TV shows, movies, cartoons and comic books.

Featuring:

• Ryan Britt (author of LUKE SKYWALKER CAN’T READ AND OTHER GEEKY TRUTHS)
• Liam McEneaney (comedian from the album WORKING CLASS FANCY)
• M. Sweeney Lawless (writer, Euphobia comedy group)
• Wendy Mays (host of PET CINEMATARY podcast, creator of SPACE CAT)
• Frank Reynolds (editor, TROMEO & JULIET)
• Nathaniel Wharton (SportsAlcohol.com)

Go behind the mask with Mexico’s real-life superheroes in LUCHA MEXICO!

In Mexico, the fight between good and evil has been waged every week for decades, thrilling generations of fans with the spectacle of Lucha Libre. Real-life superheroes and villains, these masked wrestlers put their lives on the line night after night to entertain the legions of fans. Gaining remarkable access to all the major Lucha promotions, Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz offer an entertaining, no holds barred look at some of the sport’s top performers, featuring the “1000% Guapo” Shocker, Luchador heir Blue Demon Jr, the tragic hardcore wrestler El Hijo Del Perro Aguayo, and extreme American bodybuilder Jon “Strongman” Andersen. Lucha Mexico goes behind the mask, on a journey into the heart of Mexico.

Fact and fiction collide in Maura Axelrod’s playful profile MAURIZIO CATTELAN: BE RIGHT BACK.

Q&A with director Maura Axelrod following the screening.

An art world upstart, provocative and elusive artist Maurizio Cattelan made his career on playful and subversive works that send up the artistic establishment, until a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011 finally solidified his place in the contemporary art canon. Axelrod’s equally playful profile leaves no stone unturned in trying to figure out: who is Maurizio Cattelan?

Part of Nitehawk’s TRIBECA SUMMER DOC SERIES.