Marcello Mastroianni falls into a place of the female gaze in Fellini’s surreal film, THE CITY OF WOMEN (La città delle donne).
Each audience member will receive a special gift courtesy of Babeland! Also featuring an Italian spirit or cocktail with Gruppo Campari.
“City of Women mimics what it would be like for man to be finally looked at by a woman’s gaze and the consequent loss of power that this experience might generate.” – Masculinity & Italian Cinema
Federico Fellini’s epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro’s delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini’s own oeuvre), City of Women/La città delle donne taps into the era’s restless youth culture, coalescing into nothing less than Fellini’s post-punk opus.
Marcello Mastroianni appears as Fellini’s alter ego in a semi-reprise of his character from 8 1/2, Snàporaz. As though passing into a dream, the charismatic avatar finds himself initiated into a phantasmagoric world where women–or an idea of women–have taken power, and which is structured like an array of psychosexual set-pieces, culminating in a bravura hot-air balloon that decisively sticks the “anti” up into “climax.”
Part of the 2017 Nitehawk Naughties BODY POLITICS program in partnership with Babeland.
Open display of sexuality and healthy display of power are at play in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s novel, THE DECAMERON.
A 35mm presentation.
Each audience member will receive a special gift courtesy of Babeland! Also featuring an cocktail with Gruppo Campari: Frangelico Frizzante (Frangelico, Club Soda, Fresh Lime)
Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all. The Decameron explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time. Among the chief delights are a young man’s exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini’s appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director’s most popular films, The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio’s Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex. – Criterion.
Part of the 2017 Nitehawk Naughties BODY POLITICS program in partnership with Babeland.
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., Muse Watson, Anne Heche
Inspired by a 1973 novel of the same name, the urban legend “The Hook,” and the slasher genre as a whole, I Know What You Did Last Summer may not have had the film critics raving but it sure was popular with audiences. It starred the famous young actors of the 1990s – Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze, Jr. – who leave a body on the side of the road after a hit-and-run one night after some high school partying. Fast forward to one year later and the person, dressed in a slicker and wielding a hook for a hand, is out for revenge!
Starring: Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Michael Rosenbaum, Loretta Devine, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid, Robert Englund
Pop rocks and soda, a man in the backseat, a cat in the microwave. These are just a few of the many urban legends mentioned and used by the killer as inventive ways to off college-aged victims in, ahem, Urban Legend. As a lot of the slasher films from this era did, Urban Legend featured hot young stars like Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, and Tara Reid. It notably also includes a cameo by horror legend Robert Englund! The film is a super fun horror escapade that truly deserves more credit than it typically gets.
Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck, Chad Donella
The first of SIX films in the franchise, Final Destination ushered contemporary slasher films into the aughts. Continuing the tradition of featuring young stars like Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, and Seann William Scott, Final Destination is basically a film about escaping or not escaping death. Death gets pissed when a few high school students avoid their fate after one has a premonition that gets them off a plane that’s bound to crash. But when these “survivors” start dying in bizarre accidents, the rest band together to stay alive. But Death always gets her man.
THE DEUCE is proud to present (after over two years of digging!) the ultra-rare DIRTY LITTLE BILLY!
The film is Stan Dragoti’s gritty, unsensationalistic portrait of a young Billy the Kid – with Michael J. Pollard in the starring role … Opening in May, 1973 at the dirtiest little single screen on 42nd – the notorious Anco – DIRTY LITTLE BILLY is not to be missed…
Plus: Prizes and surprises, and music by Maestro Jeff at the after-party at Lo-Res! Presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Each screening features a NY Distilling Company Cocktail Special.
THE DEUCE goes up in smoke on 4/20 with ice cream vendors Cheech and Chong peddling their NICE DREAMS.
The film is the duo’s third feature and one of 1981’s biggest summer blockbusters (grossing $37 million!). Opening at the Lyric Theatre on June 5, NICE DREAMS features special guests Sandra Bernhard, Paul Reubens, and Timothy Leary!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, and music by Maestro Jeff at the after-party at Lo-Res! Presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Each screening features a NY Distilling Company Cocktail Special.
Join THE DEUCE on their first jaunt to the Loew’s Criterion (east side of Broadway, at 44th Street) for the February 5, 1975 premiere of REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER.
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER is Milton Katselas’ thrill ride into the seedy underbelly of 1970s NYC, as seen through the eyes of NYPD officers Michael Moriarty, Susan Blakely, and Yaphet Kotto!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, and music by Maestro Jeff at the after-party at Lo-Res! Presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Nitehawk and Motherboard present THE RUNNING MAN 30th Anniversary Inauguration Special Event.
How a wild Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie predicted Trump’s America. Pre-screening presentation featuring special guests.
The future’s not so bright in The Running Man. Set in a dystopian American circa 2019, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a wrongly convicted cop in this science fiction action film. Accused of killing rioters, Ben Richards is sent to jail but escapes only to find himself on the popular television show called, you guessed, it “The Running Man.” In order to regain his freedom, he must battle a bunch of professional killers on this brutal execution slash game-show. In order to prove his innocence, he has to tap into government computers to prove the guilt of the regime who’s trying to frame him.
