Kristen Stewart stars as a young American personal shopper in Paris in Olivier Assayas’ supernatural thriller, PERSONAL SHOPPER.

Olivier Assayas, the internationally-acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium. Grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Paris home, determined to make contact with him.

Along with 90 cinemas across the United States, Nitehawk is screening 1984 as part of a National Event Day. A portion of ticket sales proceeds will be donated to the New York Civil Liberties Union. Big Brother is watching. 

Featuring giveaways courtesy of The Strand.

Part of Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS series
Books: 1984 is the second film adaptation of the classic, and increasingly relevant, George Orwell novel.
Booze: a doublethink cocktail is in the works!

1984 features a future where absolute conformity in action, word, thought and loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. Here the world is divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments. Winston, a worker, starts an illegal love affair with Julia, and becomes the target of a brainwashing campaign to force him to conform. Michael Radford’s film captures the bleakness, anxiety and internal conflict that’s so vividly described by Orwell’s words. It creates an eerie insight into contemporary life where facts, reality and compassion are being challenged by those in power.

ABOUT THIS SCREENING: On April 4, 2017, over 90 art house movie theatres across the country in 81 cities and in 35 states, plus one in Canada, will be participating collectively in a NATIONAL EVENT DAY screening of the 80’s movie “1984” starring John Hurt, who sadly died last month. This date was chosen because it’s the day George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith begins rebelling against his oppressive government by keeping a forbidden diary. These theaters owners also strongly believe in supporting the National Endowment for the Arts and see any attempt to scuttle that program as an attack on free speech and creative expression through entertainment. This event provides a chance for communities around the country to show their unity and have their voices heard.

Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough

In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, you can make a donation to OutSmartNYC, a collective of industry staff, patrons, educators, and activists organizing to prevent and end sexual violence in bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. Choose the “Reserved + $10 Donation” ticket option. Nitehawk will be matching all donations.

George Miller’s stunning Mad Max: Fury Road is a rare film that places the importance of its female protagonist on greater ground than the male lead. And that it does this without questioning gender roles makes it a revolutionary feminist film of the 21st century. Set in a post-apocalyptic Australia, Furiosa (played by Charlize Theron) rebels against a tyrannical ruler by liberating a group of female prisoners and takes them in search for her woman-ruled homeland. It is a time of severe desperation for all but her fearless strength helps change their world. Simply put, Furiosa is the most important female character represented in film since Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley (Alien).

A friend with weed is a friend indeed at Nitehawk with our LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD screening for St. Patrick’s Day.

When aspiring hip-hop performers Butch (Red Grant), Postmaster P. (A.T. Montgomery) and Stray Bullet (Rashaan Nall) cross record producer Mack Daddy (Ice-T), their grudge against him leads to their own peril. After they break into Mack Daddy’s home and swipe an ancient medallion from a grotesque statue, the evil Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) is freed from his magical prison. Soon the sinister little man is on the trail of Butch, Postmaster P. and Stray Bullet, along with Mack Daddy himself.

An arms deal goes wrong in Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump’s explosive (and violently charming) FREE FIRE.

Bold, breathless and wickedly fun, Free Fire is an electrifying action-comedy about an arms deal that goes spectacularly and explosively wrong. Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) propels the audience head-on into quite possibly the most epic shootout ever seen on film as he crafts a spectacular parody—and biting critique—of the insanity of gun violence. Everyone’s got a gun, and absolutely no one is in control.

Jim Jarmusch transforms the everyday ordinary into the extraordinary in the quietly beautiful film, PATERSON.

Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey – they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer. He goes home to his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily, each a different and inspired project. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions; she champions his secret gift for poetry. The history and energy of the City of Paterson is a felt presence in the film and its simple structure unfolds over the course of a single week. The quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life are observed, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, is the feature debut of Cybill Sheperd, includes the songs of Hank Williams, and is one of the best movies in the 1970s. Based on Larry McMurtry’s semi-autobiographical novel and set in the early 1950s, Sonny Crawford is coming of age in the desolate town of Anarene, Texas. Sonny’s closest friends are his high school buddy Duane Jackson and his surrogate father Sam the Lion, whose tough-minded integrity stands in contrast to everyone around him. Eager to experiment with sex, Sony begins an affair with his coach’s wife. However, his understanding of the world is thrown into question when Sam the Lion suddenly dies, and his relationship with the coach’s wife proves emotionally complicated.

Starring: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark

When a meteorite crashes outside of a small California town, a gloopy, amorphous creature emerges from the broken space rock and immediately sets itself on anything in its path. Acidic to the touch, this blob grows larger with everything it consumes, and with a small town of unsuspecting dimwits on the menu, the creature gets mighty big, mighty fast. Desperate to save the town, two teenagers discover that the military’s main priority isn’t to destroy the blob, but to capture it by any means necessary.

Part cheeky 50s sci-fi spoof, part bitchin’ 80s gore fest, Chuck Russell’s remake of The Blob is one of the best monster movies of the decade – a film that dusts off a seemingly hokey premise from thirty years prior and makes it nice and terrifying for modern times.

Director Bong Joon-ho’s enviro-horror fable of monsters both gigantic and human.

A 35mm Presentation.

A monster has emerged from the depths of Seoul’s polluted Han River – a giant, twisted fish creature who rampages along the banks of the river, gorging itself on anyone unfortunate enough to get in its way. As the creature retreats into the river, it snatches a young girl, Park Hyun-seo, as her family watches on, helplessly. Devastated, the Park family and the rest of the survivors get rounded up and placed under quarantine by the American military – until a phone call from Hyun-seo reveals that she has survived her encounter with the monster and is in hiding deep in Seoul’s sewers. To save their youngest, the Parks must escape increasingly aggressive U.S. government agents and venture deep into the monster’s territory.

Part of Nitehawk’s March LARGE AND IN CHARGE screening series.

XX diretors select Michael Haneke’s haunting pre-WWI film, THE WHITE RIBBON.

“The White Ribbon is a ghost story without a ghost, a whodunnit without a denouement, a historical parable without a lesson, and for two and a half hours, this unforgettably disturbing and mysterious film leads its viewers alongside an abyss of anxiety.” – The Guardian