This May, THE DEUCE visits the Lyric Theatre yet again, for a screening of B-picture DERANGED: THE CONFESSIONS OF A NECROPHILE…which played with ‘RAPE SQUAD’ on February 21, 1975!!

Plus: Prizes and surprises at the after-party with music by Maestro Jeff! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Demented, disturbing, downright weird delineation of the dastardly deeds of one “Ezra Cobb” – a thinly veiled and more faithful-to-the-facts version of the notoriously nasty Ed Gein corpse-robbing case (basis for the more well known variations on the theme, PSYCHO and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) – DERANGED does it decidedly different … Jeff Gillen and Alan Ormsby’s take is the oddball-out: original and unnerving, a darkly humorous character study of the horrors barely hidden by a doting Mama’s Boy derailed by dementia … full of subtly screwy details and a strangeness hard to shake… With a committed, commanding, and somehow sympathetic lead performance from veteran character actor Roberts Blossom, as the befuddled and obviously totally bonkers “pervert” with a pointedly disturbing fashion sense … “The wages of sin is gonorrhea, syphilis and death!” You’ll find them all when you get DERANGED on THE DEUCE!

All DEUCE screenings are 35mm presentations.
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Deuce Jockeys: Jeff, Joe, Andy, Max, Andrew
Featuring drink specials courtesy of Fernet Branca

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present a special ART SEEN screening of PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT. Q&A with director Lisa Immordino Vreeland!

DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND: TWO ADDITIONAL BRUNCH SCREENINGS (JANUARY 23 & JANUARY 24)!

Lisa Immordino Vreeland follows up her acclaimed debut Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel with Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict. A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th Century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.

Local Color is in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival. Art Seen is in partnership with frieze.

This Valentine’s Day, Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents the infamous tale of LOLITA (a 35mm presentation).

The screening will have prize giveaways of Lolita shirts & gift certificates courtesy of our partner Out of Print along with an inspired cocktail and some heart-shaped goodies!

Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic vision of Vladimir Nabokov’s book Lolita (who also wrote the screenplay) may be an unconventional love story for Valentine’s Day but the film’s palpable depiction of obsession is eternally alluring…and scandalizing! After taking a room to let with a single mother, Prof. Humbert Humbert falls inappropriately in love and lust with her young teenage daughter Lolita. Lolita teases and takes advantage of his affections with cruelty as their dysfunctional relationship continues throughout the years. Love is never simple.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Booze & Books!

Comedian Kevin Maher visits the far-reaches of the galaxy, where life is cheap and the special effects are cheaper. This 2-hour cosmic adventure features multi-media presentations celebrating the sub-genre. With co-hosts Alex Robinson & Pete the Retailer (from the STAR WARS MINUTE podcast.) Expect lots of laser blasts, obnoxious robots, galactic melodrama and STAR WARS rip-offs. 

Plus Special Guests:
Stuart Wellington (The Flophouse podcast) 
Jenn Northington (Riot New Media) 
Crystal Beth (MTV, StarWarsMinute)  
M. Sweeney Lawless (Euphobia comedy troupe) 
Chris Radtke (Geek.com)

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR series presents a special one nite screening of DIXIELAND, featuring a Q&A after the screening with director Hank Bedford, moderated by Bennett Miller.

Dixieland is an intoxicating portrait of life and love on the margins. Fresh out of prison, Kermit (Zylka), a mostly good kid mixed up with local drug dealers, returns home to his rural Mississippi trailer park. As he struggles to keep his nose clean, he falls for Rachel (Keough), his sultry neighbor who’s turned to dancing in a club to support her sick mother. Determined to overcome their inauspicious circumstances, the star-crossed lovers make a desperate, last-ditch effort to escape their dead-end town—but soon find themselves ensnared in a cycle of crime.

Nitehawk tells the Legend of the 1995 Kung Fu film THE BLADE. A 35mm presentation!

After the master of the Sharp Manufacturer saber factory abdicates and appoints On, his least popular worker, as his successor, On, unwilling to lead his surly colleagues, embarks on a quest of revenge to kill the evil, flying, tattooed kung fu master who killed his father.

Part of Nitehawk’s January THE LEGEND OF 90S KUNG FU midnites.

Look back on over 30 years of Ralph McDaniels’ Video Music Box. Featuring rare and unseen live-footage of Nas, Notorious BIG, Kool Moe Dee, Run DMC, Boogie Down Productions, Jay Z, Wu Tang Clan, and many more. Ralph will also be presenting his top 5 hip hop music videos of all time.

Nitehawk presents two special midnite screenings of the once lost DANGEROUS MEN!

Dangerous Men has many characters…like Mina whose life is shattered when two bikers with rape on their minds attack and kill Daniel, her fiancé. Driven by grief, she embarks on a killing rampage, wreaking vengeance upon all the menthat she seductively lures into her trap. In her twisted world, cops and killers are all the same – David, Daniel’s brother, is a cop who relentlessly pursues the killers, while facing a nest of drug dealers, followed by the FBI and the police SWAT team, also in hot pursuit. Mina, a victim of violence, carrying a twisted obsession for justice, is caught between opposing forces in a world of dangerous men.

In this Yuletide spectacular, comedian KEVIN MAHER welcomes guests to obsess over the holidays with a two-hour video variety show full of laughs and weird film clips.

Guest Segments include:

• Department Store Santa GLEN HEROY shares true tales from Santaland and other gigs as St. Nick.
• THE FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL presents a selection of found videos with a Christmas theme.
• Filmmaker CAROLINE GOLUM tells the story of a Jewish Christmas in New York.
• Word & Film blogger TOM BLUNT makes a case for why VH1’s A DIVA’S CHRISTMAS CAROL deserves to be canonized as a Holiday classic.
• ELLIOTT KALAN (The Flophouse Podcast and The Daily Show) takes a closer look at the Santa myth.
• Space Cat creator WENDY MAYS spotlights an overlooked holiday gem that may disgust you.

An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in 7th century China.

Back with his first film in 8 years, legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien wowed this year’s Cannes Film Festival (where he won Best Director) with his awe-inspiring THE ASSASSIN – a wondrous take on the traditional wuxia film. The story is simple, if elusive – in 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins. Rich with shimmering, breathing texture and punctuated by brief but unforgettable bursts of action, THE ASSASSIN is a martial arts film like none made before it.