Starring: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman

Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar) is finally getting help. After spending years trying to overcome a childhood of abuse, Nola begins seeing Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) after her husband, Frank, threatens to take away custody of her daughter. Raglan practices an unconventional therapy method where mental disturbances are released through physical changes in the body. The therapy isn’t perfect, for starters, anyone who crosses Nola meets a grizzly end at the hands of a seemingly endless stream of angry, toothless, asexual murder-happy children. As the bodies begin piling up, Frank begins investigating the source of these kill-crazy kiddies and all signs point to trouble brewing between Nola and Dr. Raglan.

Starring: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown

Flipping the script on its pseudo-fascist source material, director Paul Verhoeven’s (Robocop, Total Recall) blood-and-guts space age war film Starship Troopers cranks up the ra-ra militarism and heavy-handed propaganda of Robert Heinlein’s novel to frenzied, farcical levels. Taking place in the distant future where only military service earns a person citizenship, the Earthbound Terran Federation comes under attack by a distant race of evil, sentient bugs out to squash humanity. Seeking retribution, the Terrans send off their best, brightest and most Aryan looking to take on the bugs in an epic interstellar meat grinder.

Every bit as funny, smart and exciting as Verhoeven’s best work, Starship Troopers works as both an eye-popping, FX driven cornball action flick and a send-up of eye-popping, FX driven cornball action flicks.

Starring: Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Adam Ludwig, Michael Ironside

In Scanners, David Cronenberg introduces a new advancement in human evolution: a race of telepaths with the ability to ‘scan’ other humans, reading their thoughts, controlling their movement and even taking over their consciousness. Most Scanners are harmless, purposefully withdrawn from society, driven to the brink of insanity because of the constant stream of outside thoughts streaming through their minds. However, there’s one Scanner who’s none too nice, and becomes hellbent on building a psychic army to take over the world. The fate of the world rests on the powerful mind of a Scanner on the fringes, which kicks off a psychic battle of wills that will Blow. Your. Mind. (Get it? Because it’s Scanners.)

Shot entirely on iPhone 5s, TANGERINE follows a working girl tears through Hollywood searching for the pimp who broke her heart.

It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

In SLOW WEST, a young boy traverses across the 19th-century American frontier searching for the love of his life.

Jay is a lovelorn 17-year-old Scottish aristocrat who travels to the American West at the close of the nineteenth century to track down his former lover. Confronted with the harsh realities of the frontier, he falls in with a rough and mysterious traveler named Silas (Michael Fassbender), who soon discovers that the focus of Jay’s affection has a price on her head. Together, the two navigate a vast, untamed wilderness while attempting to stay one step ahead of a bloodthirsty posse and colorful bounty hunter. Their search leads to a bloody confrontation where Jay’s romanticism is the first of many casualties. — Sundance Institute

Nitehawk’s teaming up with Allagash Brewing Company for a WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Film Feast, a night of high times, hard bodies and soft rock.

For our Wet Hot American Summer Film Feast, we have put together an unlikely team of misfits and we’ve been training like crazy all summer. Yeah, it’s a motley crew that you’d think would never be able to pull off a single dinner. We had a kooky training period where it seemed like, well, it seemed like nothing was going to go right — but guys! We’ve made it! So I say, when those anonymously evil brewers from Allagash get here, we give it our best shot, and we try to come from behind at the last minute with a weird trick dish that we made up and we win the game! Uh, Movie! What do you say?! No? Well, how about this…

The fridge humpers from the Nitehawk mess hall hooked up with Allagash Brewing Company for a multi-course beer dinner paired with scenes from David Wain’s cult comedy. Allagash owner and founder Rob Tod will be here to introduce and talk about the selection of specialty Allagash brews. So get that mustache into shape, put on your best shorty-shorts and crop tops and for God’s sake, take a shower. You’re covered in dirt.

Menu

Bonfire Drink: Allagash White with watermelon cubes

“WHAT’S YOUR GLITCH GENE?”
seared polenta cake, fois gras terrine, pistachio, blueberry gastrique
Bonfire Drink: Allagash Golden Brett

WATERVILLE, MAINE
Maine lobster roll, celery, tabasco, Old Bay potato gaufrette
Beer Pairing: Allagash Double Saison

IS THERE ANY MORE CORN?
smoked pork tenderloin, baked northern beans, peach and grain mustard vinaigrette
Beer Pairing: Allagash Farm to Face

“HIS NAME WAS UGG AND WALKED ON ALL FOURS!”
‘smores on graham cracker, marshmallow, rum chocolate sauce
Beer Pairing: Allagash Odyssey

Menu items subject to change, no substitutions.

From Olivier Assayas, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA is an exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at art, acting and aging.

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant (Kristen Stewart) to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet (Chloë Grace Moretz) with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.

Jeff Goldblum has a small but pivotal role as the attacker that changes Charles Bronson’s life in the find ‘em and kill ‘em classic DEATH WISH.

When his wife and daughter are assaulted in their own home by a bunch of thugs (including a jughead hat wearing Jeff Goldblum), architect Paul Kersey goes on a revenge fueled killing spree that extends way beyond a personal vendetta…he wants to clean up the streets of New York! Kersey’s transformation from a mild mannered citizen to an inconsolable vigilante may be far fetched but, and this is due to Charles Bronson, this glorification of justifiable violence is a satisfying ride. Armed with a borrowed pistol, his efforts to punish the city’s criminals is appreciated by the community but we’re left to sympathize with the fact that this task has no end in sight.

Death Wish is the first of two Michael Winner films to barely feature Jeff Goldblum (as “Freak #1”); the other in our series is The Sentinel.

Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: JEFF GOLDBLUM (BARELY GOLDBLUM & FULL GOLDBLUM) brunches and midnites throughout May and June!

Starring: Cristina Raines, Ava Gardner, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Sylvia Miles, Beverly D’Angelo, Jeff Goldblum

Are you one of the legion? New York is the backdrop to many a satanic story but none, save Rosemary’s Baby, are as creepy as The Sentinel. Alison Parker is a model who, deciding to spend some time alone before making a commitment to her sketchy boyfriend, discovers that the troubling issues of her past are coming to haunt her. Long story short (filled with demonic delusions), her suicidal past has made her the next perfect candidate to guard the gateway to hell. Based on the chilling novel by Jeffrey Konvitz, this film shows how transparent the boundaries between hell and the living is…in Brooklyn!

With its incredible cast featuring Burgess Meredith, Chris Sarandon, and even Ava Gardner, you may miss our dear Jeff Goldblum in The Sentinel but he’s there in the photo shoot gone wrong and party scenes!

Jeff Goldblum self-experimentation goes awry in David Cronenberg’s version of THE FLY! A 35mm presentation!

If there was ever a film re-make to tackle for David Cronenberg, The Fly would be it. The story of an eccentric scientist who, after successfully teleporting a living creature, decides to try the experiment on himself to devastating results is ripe for the old Cronenberg body horror treatment. Nearly thirty years after the original, the fear of overreaching one’s scientific reach is made even more terrifying. In this updated version we have a single Dr. Seth Brundle (Goldblum) luring a journalistic (Earth Girls Are Easy co-star Geena Davis) into the lab for a story of a lifetime but, as we know, that damn fly had to get in the way. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The Fly is the film where we really start to know Goldblum for Goldblum or, as we like to say, when he started to go “Full Goldblum.” This screening also kicks off a small David Cronenberg midnites series in June!

Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: JEFF GOLDBLUM (BARELY GOLDBLUM & FULL GOLDBLUM) brunches and midnites throughout May and June!