Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe
For 19-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind.
David Cronenberg’s latest, MAPS TO THE STARS, takes a twisted tour through the dark side of tinseltown.
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss (Olivia Williams) has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, who’s fresh out of rehab at age 13. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town – mysteriously scarred and tormented Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), just released from a psych ward and ready to start again. She soon becomes personal assistant to unraveling actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), who is beset by the ghost of her legendary mother. But Agatha is on a quest for redemption – and even in this realm of the artificial, and the unearthly, she’s determined to find it, no matter what it takes.
THE DEUCE teams up once again with 42nd Street expert and exploitation extraordinaire ‘Uncle Bill’ Lustig for a screening of his fave freak-out FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
“Why, you poor white trash! If it wasn’t for that gun, you’d be a yellow-streaked bum!”
William Sanderson (of Newhart fame) takes his film-debut turn as a hate-filled redneck prison escapee who, along with Mexican and Asian sidekicks, home-invade prominent African-American minister Robert Judd and family… Racist epithets abound before the tables are finally, brutally turned…
Denied a British theatrical release in 1981, FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE was released the following year on video, allowing the UK public brief access to the flick before it wound up on the ‘video nasties’ list and was outlawed – notably, for being the only title to appear on the list due to offensive language… Considered by critics as an “outrageous sleazefest” and “amazingly racist,” FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE will be presented by filmmaker Bill Lustig, who returns to THE DEUCE for year number two as our special guest curator!
Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.
Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s THE DEUCE signature series.
Starring: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins, Wally Taylor, Bruce Solomon
An immensely fun creature feature from director Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad), Night of the Creeps takes on the charmed premise of taking Animal House and turning all the frat boys into zombies controlled by alien brain slugs. With the biggest party night of the year in chaos and all of the jocks in town turned into the living dead, only a buttoned up indoor kid (Jason Lively of Rusty Griswold fame) and a drunk, wiseass detective (Tom Atkins of being awesome in everything he’s in fame) can stop the slugs, kill the jocks and save the girls on Sorority Row.
Get your guns ready, cause it’s Miller time.
Starring: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt
Spend St. Patrick’s Day with Nitehawk and one evil LEPRECHAUN!
In the first of the infamous film franchise, Willow’s Warwick Davis play a super evil Leprechaun who’s come all the way from Ireland to South Dakota to get his gold back from thieving Dan O’Grady but winds up locked in a basement. Cut to ten years later and the new tenants (one of whom is Jennifer Aniston in her film debut) unknowingly let the sucker out. The killing spree and terrorizing that ensues can only be stopped by a four leaf clover. Whether these friends have the luck of the Irish or their luck runs out one this is for sure, never, ever steal a Leprechaun’s pot of gold.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Will Sampson, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, William Redfield
Everything is borderline in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Based on the book of the same, the story centers around the arrival of Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) at the Oregon State Hospital who, after a slew of disobedient acts including a statutory rape conviction, has been transferred from prison for a mental evaluation. Self-righteous in his defiance against authority and so certain about his sanity, McMurphy rallies with his fellow patients to break beyond and challenge the normal routine. However, he soon discovers that his search for freedom is not shared by all and that some find necessary comfort within the institutional walls. Haskell Wexler’s cinematography compounds our feeling of overwhelming expansiveness and claustrophobic interiors as we question what madness looks like.
Starring: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg
Based on a novel of the same name, Girl, Interrupted details the instability felt by a generation during the turbulent socio-political climate of the late 1960s through the lives of complicated young women at a mental institution. Committed for various reasons, ranging from food disorders to incest to suicide attempts, their stories intertwine with the main character Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) whose memoir narrates the film. She has unwittingly signed herself into the hospital after a suicide attempt and it becomes a place where she is shocked into the realities it houses and the boundaries of madness. Not unlike Randle in One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest, Susanna is on a self-destructive bent but harnesses the ability to decide whether she’d go over the edge into insanity or pull herself back into the world.
SecretFormula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze Gone Wild
Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoons Featuring the Sexiest & Most Scantily Clad Toons on TV!
Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s delicious brunch menu.
Before the FCC ruined everything, cartoons got away with some pretty sexy stuff on television. This month, we’re screening episodes featuring sexy babes and beefcakes, beach bodies, scantily clad toons and even more sexiness that was almost too hot for TV! If you’re turned on by anthropomorphic mice in tight jumpsuits, this is the show for you.
– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!
– A special menu of episodes featuring the sexiest and most scantily clad toons on Saturday morning!
– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.
– Special cereal-themed cocktail menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and the “The Complete Breakfast” with Cinnamon Toast Crunch-infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream and iced coffee!
– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl!
– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from Nitehawk Cinema!
Nitehawk presents a special one night screening with Abrams Books of Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL in celebration of Matt Zoller Seitz’s new book The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Book signing with Matt Zoller Seitz in Nitehawk’s lobby immediately following the film. The Grand Budapest Hotel available for sale & Seitz will also introduce the film!
Golden Globe winner for Best Picture Comedy/Musical and nominated for nine Academy Awards (including Best Picture), Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune — all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.
In the new book, The Grand Budapest Hotel, through a series of interviews with Seitz, Anderson shares the story behind the film’s conception, personal anecdotes about the making of the film, and the wide variety of sources that inspired it—from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes from turn-of-the-century Middle Europe. The book also features critical essays by Ali Arikan, Steven Boone, David Bordwell, Olivia Collette, and Christopher Laverty; interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman; and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn. Previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, ephemera, and artwork illustrate these interviews and essays. The cover is designed by graphic artist Max Dalton, who also illustrated the cover for Seitz’s previous book, The Wes Anderson Collection, that will also be available for sale at the event!
Nitehawk is also screening Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN on February 24 in conjunction with the release of the new book Altman.
The New York premiere of HITS, a dark comedy directed by David Cross. Featuring a Q&A with David Cross, Amy Sedaris and Amy Carlson after the film; plus: pay what you want for tickets!
RSVPing does not guarantee entry day of the event, access is first come first served for the screening.
Hits is a dark comedy exploring the nature of fame in 21st Century YouTube America. The film takes place in a small town in upstate New York populated by people who trade in unrealistic expectations. It’s a story in which fame, delusion, earnestness, and recklessness meet, shake hands, and disrupt the lives around them.
Director David Cross and stars Amy Sedaris and Amy Carolson will be joining us for the screening for a Q&A following the movie. Tickets will be sold on a pay what you want basis, where you can decide the price of your ticket at the door ($0, $100, $1000?). Tickets must be bought at Nitehawk’s box office, but please RSVP if you plan on attending.
If you like the idea of paying what you want for a film, check out their Kickstarter page for more information.
