Northside Film screens the Brooklyn Premiere of SUMMER OF BLOOD, presented by Factory 25.
Introduction by Factory 25 and Q&A with director Onur Tukel
Graying, paunchy, cynical, underemployed—the aging Brooklyn hipster Eric Sparrow (Onur Tukel) is lucky in love with Jodi (Anna Margaret Hollyman), a sensible and sensitive young lawyer. But after rejecting her marriage proposal, Eric is out on his ear; in his downward spiral of sexual frustration and bewildered vanity, he meets a vampire—an encounter that changes everything. – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
There is no better allegory for the grim implications of the atom bomb in post-WWII Japan (nor the modern day nuclear disasters) than Godzilla. Godzilla (aka Gojira) is the beginning of the longest running film series in history, the grandfather Godzilla if you will, and we’re darn happy to be showing the new restoration. It all begins with nuclear testing in the Pacific spawning a 150 foot tall monster that goes on a destructive rampage. Will man be able to destroy its own creation before it destroys us all?
Can you remember a time before Nirvana? In August of 1991 New York’s Sonic Youth invited Los Angeles filmmaker David Markey along on a two week summer festival tour of Europe. The band was excited about their opening act, a little known band from the Pacific Northwest called Nirvana. Along the way they would cross paths with Dinosaur Jr., Babes In Toyland, Gumball, and The Ramones. 1991: The Year Punk Broke also features Mark Arm, Dan Peters and Matt Lukin of Mudhoney and roadie Joe Cole, who was murdered in a robbery three months after the tour ended. The film is dedicated to him.
Starring: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Yutaka Nakano, Iemasa Kayumi
The year is 2029 and the connection between humans and information on the network is stronger than ever. Unfortunately, crime has also developed. Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow, the film anime version of Ghost in the Shell follows the hunt of public security agency Section 9 for a mysterious hacker known and the “Puppet Master.” With the assistance of her team, Motoko Kusanagi tracks and finds their suspect, only to be drawn into a complex sequence of political intrigue and a cover-up as to the identity and goals of the Puppet Master. In this technologically advanced world, Ghost in the Shell contains philosophical themes of sex, gender, and self-identity.
Tom Berninger chronicles his time spent on the road as a member of the tour crew for The National, the rock & roll band fronted by his brother, Matt.
Matt, the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock band The National, finally finds himself flush with success. His younger brother, Tom, is a loveable slacker – a filmmaker and metal-head still living with his parents in Cincinnati. On the eve of The National’s biggest tour to date, Matt invites Tom to work for the band as a roadie, unaware of Tom’s plan to film the entire adventure. What starts as a rock documentary soon becomes a surprisingly honest portrait of a charged relationship between two brothers, and the frustration of unfulfilled creative ambitions.
A special murderous treat this Mother’s Day weekend as Nitehawk present the cult classic MOTHER’S DAY in 35mm!
Spend a very Troma Mother’s Day with us! In the vein of similar cabin-in-the-woods with a rape/revenge narrative like Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave, Charles Kaufman’s Mother’s Day shows how an innocent reunion amongst three young women turns into a bloody disaster. These lifelong friends just wanted some camping fun for the weekend but wind up battling for their lives and sanity against backwards two punkish hillbillies who will do anything to impress their sadistic granny mother…and this includes fulfilling her incessant demands for torture and deranged depravity on unsuspecting visitors into their woods! The girls don’t take this brutality without fighting back however, when they do, there’s another plot twist on the way.
Part of Nitehawk’s May ASK ME ABOUT MY MOTHER midnite series.
Critically acclaimed documentary FINDING VIVIAN MAIER unearths the untold story of one of the greatest photographers of the 20th Century.
Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century’s greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier’s strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
