Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. Throne of Blood fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone
A chameleon who has lived as a sheltered family pet finds himself in the grip of an identity crisis. Rango wonders how to stand out when it is his nature to blend in. When he accidentally winds up in a frontier town called Dirt, he takes the first step on a transformational journey as the town’s new sheriff. Though at first Rango only role-plays, a series of thrilling situations and outrageous encounters forces him to become a real hero.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White, Allison Janney, Annaleigh Ashford, Stephanie Kurtzuba
A Long Island school superintendent and his assistant are credited with bringing the district unprecedented prestige. Frank is a master of positive messaging, whether before an audience of community leaders or in an office with a concerned student or parent. That changes when a student reporter uncovers an embezzlement scheme of epic proportions, prompting Frank to devise an elaborate cover-up.
Tickets for this event are $15 food & beverage vouchers. Vouchers reserve your seats and can be used towards your final bill with a $15 value.
Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young
Hosted by Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo. Followed by an afterparty in Trees Lounge with a DJ set of pre-code era tunes (and beyond) from Owen Kline plus our signature cocktail special “Blonde in Hell.”
Like so many other young men of his generation, Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) limps back from WWI broke, friendless, and addicted to morphine. Year after year he struggles to find steady employment, hoping to catch the wave of prosperity that buoyed hucksters and capitalists during the Roaring Twenties. But when the Great Depression hits, Tom finds the resolve to do battle once more – not against the German army, but against the wheels of industry! Radicalized by his hardship, he joins America’s growing labor movement to fight, at long last, for a truly just cause. Spitfire director William A. Wellman’s swift rage against the machine has it all: solidarity, showmanship, empathy and economic justice. And he gets it done in just over 70 minutes!
Starring: Luciane Buchanan, Hunter Doohan, Souheila Yacoub, Victory Ndukwe, Tandi Wright, Erroll Shand
After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life live on… even in death.
Starring: Diane Lane, Ray Winstone, Laura Dern, Marin Kanter, David Clennon
Celebrate the release of Fun City Edition’s 4K Blu-ray restoration. Special guests TBA & post screening DJ in Tree’s Lounge.
Join us for Night Flight’s 45th anniversary celebration! We’re presenting a true underground classic, one Night Flight itself helped turn into legend: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, newly-restored in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative by Fun City Editions.
The Stains, a fledgling punk band comprised of three teenage girls, rise, fall and rise again in this rock ’n roll parody. Released in 1982, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains found its US audience not in theaters, but on late-night airwaves where Night Flight beamed it into cult immortality. What might have been a “lost film” became a generational touchstone, passed on by VHS tapes and now fully immersed into Night Flight’s punk DNA.
There will be a new 15 minute Night Flight pre-show featuring the legends from the original broadcast. Be part of this full circle screening, 45 years after Night Flight’s first broadcast June 1981!
Shakedown is the story of Los Angeles’ black lesbian strip club scene and its genesis. Owned and operated by women, underground and illegal in nature, the club Shakedown is the darker, faster, younger iteration of this dance culture. The film is a window into this world. Shakedown emerged from a post-RIOTS, post-OJ, post-integration but still very racially divided Los Angeles. In this divided city Shakedown is an independent, all black and all female cash economy. Shakedown chronicles the explicit performances and personal relationships of the party’s dancers and organizers including Ronnie-Ron, Shakedown Productions’ creator and emcee; Mahogany, the legendary “mother” of the community; Egypt, their star performer; and Jazmine, the “Queen” of Shakedown.
Starring: Milton Gonçalves, Odete Lara, Stepan Nercessian, Nelson Xavier, Yara Cortes, Wilson Grey
4K restoration
Rio de Janeiro’s criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: Diaba (Milton Gonçalves), a femme queen with a taste for power and violence. When the police come after her boy toy, Diaba attempts to find a scapegoat to take the blame and a plot to dethrone Her Majesty arises! Always clad in gloriously colourful outfits and accessories inspired by Afro-Brazilian culture, Diaba runs a mob of eccentric misfits made up of drag queens, pimps, prostitutes, and queer folks of all stripes. The movie’s bold and audacious color palette and camp aesthetic evokes the early films of Pedro Almodóvar, while its stylized and over-the-top violence is giving Quentin Tarantino queer fever dream.
Starring: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Shea Whigham
Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki’s grandfather, Frank (Shea Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system.
