Starring: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
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D E E P #1
WHAT IT IS: EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA | NET ART | VIDEO ART | OUTSIDER ART | PSYCHOTRONIC VISUALS | WEIRDO SKETCHES | MEDITATIVE CGI | BIZARRE REMIXES | DIGITAL FOSSILS | VIDEOS YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO SEE
This month’s D E E P focuses on the body, bringing you contorted fleshy textures, corporeal pleasures and terrors, and a mutable sense of self in this era of digital dissociation.
FILMS
Faceshopping
Dirs. SOPHIE & Aaron Chan | 4 minutes
“I’m real when I shop my face.” This eyepopping visual for electronic musician SOPHIE’s single “Faceshopping” contorts, inflates, destroys, and rebuilds the artist’s face in a million different ways as a oddly gorgeous representation of body dysmorphia and limitless (digital) alteration.
U U
Dir. Yu Yu | 5 minutes
A man enters a bathroom and finds a lot of pairs from his own body. This discovery makes him thinking he is a sum of two. The thought leads him becoming two. ‘Wow, look at this’ He says to his double.
My Expanded View
Dir. Corey Hughes | 8 minutes
A YouTube Yoga tutorial. A collapsed body. An expanded view. Shot using multiple methods, including drone, iPhone, Osmo, and thermal camera, Hughes’ newest piece is a funny and deft exploration of modern imagemaking as transcendental experience.
Director Present
HORSE
Dir. Shen Jie | 4 minutes
Five chapters about horse are cut up. A haunting, gorgeous deconstruction of time and movement through animation.
Vera
Dir. Karen Yasinsky | 7 minutes
A character created over the time of animating the cobweb.
The Body Heals
Dir. Annelise Ogaard | 7 minutes
A nonfiction dispatch from a plastic surgery slumber party in South Beach.
Director Present
The Double Feeling
Dir. Nikias Chryssos | 10 minutes
A Mini-DV shot documentary set inside a Las Vegas factory where the world’s best-selling male adult toy is produced: the Fleshlight.
Pleasure
Dir. David Delafuente | 6 minutes
The process of letting go. Delafuente’s kinetic, melancholy abstractions explore queer love in all its multitudes through vibrant color and sound.
Director Present
Please step out of the frame.
Dir. Karissa Hahn | 4 minutes
Using Super 8, a desk, and a laptop, Karissa Hahn creates a playful choreography of body and screen.
국민체조 “National Gymnastics”
Dir. Gyuri Cloe Lee | 4 minutes
Take a journey through the nostalgic, yet bizarre visual landscape of the artist’s memories and imagination. “National Gymnastics (국민체조)” is the name of the Korean national morning exercise routine invented by the government and practiced in schools since the 70’s until the early 2000’s.
Gunge Buddies
Dir. Meredith Moore | 12 minutes
Equal parts documentary and fiction, Moore’s experimental short explores what happens when a group of friends from an online community get together for the first time to participate in one of the most innocuously beautiful and messy fetishes around: gunging.
Director Present
Coordinated Movement
Dir. Mike Pelletier | 3 minutes
Bodies float, morph, ripple, and twist in Pelletier’s experimental CG piece, which is by turns unsettling and deeply soothing.
Bad Reputation
Playing at Nitehawk for one night only! Stay after the credits for exclusive Joan Jett performance footage that can only be seen in theaters.
It’s true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit “I Love Rock n Roll,” but thats only part of the story. That fame intensified with the music video’s endless play on MTV, world tours and many hits to follow like “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” but that staple of popularity can’t properly define a musician.
Jett put her hard work in long before the fame, ripping it up onstage as the backbone of the hard-rock legends The Runaways, starting her record label out of the trunk of a car after being rejected by 23 labels, and influencing many musicians—both her cohort of punk rockers and generations of younger bands—with her no-bullshit style. Bad Reputation gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning ’70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage. The theme is clear: Even though people tried to define Jett, she never compromised. She will kick your ass, and you’ll love her all the more for it.
Crown and Anchor
Starring: Michael Rowe, Matt Wells, Natalie Brown
James Downey (Michael Rowe) lives a disciplined and straight edge lifestyle as a result of growing up with an abusive alcoholic father. His estranged cousin Danny (Matt Wells) is drowning his own trauma with drugs and booze. When their lives are forced to intersect once more, they each begin to unravel as the past returns with violent and tragic consequences. Featuring a blistering punk/hardcore soundtrack, Crown and Anchor is a slow-burn drama delivered with the intensity of a punch to the gut.
Burn After Reading
Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton
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“The Russians? Are you sure?”
Released in 2008, on the heels of the Oscar-winning No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading was received as a glossy oddity in the Coens’ filmography: a send up of 70s spy thrillers that also satirized its characters’ hopelessly anachronistic attitudes towards 21st century cloak-and-dagger realities.
In a post-Iraq zeitgeist, the idea of opportunistic Americans peddling state secrets to the former Evil Empire was meant as a joke, but a decade later, the film’s thawed-out-Cold War comedy looks prescient and downright trenchant; the “league of morons” envisioned by John Malkovich’s career spook has become not an exaggerated metaphor for our current political situation but a conceptual Trump card as radical as reality itself. Fleetly paced, supremely mean-spirited and exceptionally well-performed by a group of movie-stars-turned-clowns — Brad Pitt’s doomed gym rat is his most sublime characterization — Burn After Reading shows off its creators’ twin gifts for convolution and clarity, topping off its circular plot with a viciously absurdist coda that nods to (and arguably equals) Kubrick’s Strangeloveian misanthropy.
“What did we learn?” asks one CIA higher-up of his superior at the end of a roundelay of adultery, murder, and mistaken identity — the answer, when it comes, is as inevitable, chilling, futile and human as it gets.
Mandy
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, Richard Brake
Part of our recipe book series NITEHAWK CINEMA PRESENTS. Show your ticket at the bar after the movie to buy a copy of the book for only $20!
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
NoBudge Live #15
NoBudge is a movies club that presents a hand-picked selection of new indie movies daily. “One of the best places to sample what’s happening in low-budget cinema worldwide,” says Glenn Kenny of The New York Times. Its mission is to provide a supportive home for emerging indie filmmakers working with limited resources and without major industry connections, and to be a trusted discovery platform helping audiences find their new favorite movies and filmmakers.
The Movies
Fucked Like a Star
Director Stefani Saintonge present.
A poetic meditation on women’s work and the dreamlife of ants set to the words of Toni Morrison.
(8 minutes)
Fall River
Directors Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood present.
The story of a family tragedy, and their once-thriving hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts.
(7 minutes)
4/4
Director Kyle Sawyer present.
A woman retreats to a cabin to compose a piece of music but is haunted by writers block.
(6 minutes)
The Darby Bonarsky Story
Directors Dasha Nekrasova and Jacqueline Kramer present.
Darby Bonarsky is an actress living in Koreatown, Los Angeles. A local filmmaker wanted to tell her story.
(17 minutes)
enjoy your stay!
Co-writer and lead actor, Hilton Dresden present.
Hilton visits L.A. and loses his mind.
(7 minutes)
CORNHOLIOS
Director Jess Lane present.
Three devoted Cornholio enthusiasts struggle to make ends meet in New York.
(6 minutes)
Cheap Studs
Director Zach Romeo present.
A high school country band prepares for an upcoming performance, paying special attention to their pre-show winks.
(10 minutes)
Holiday Lake
Directors Frankie de Fusco and Sarah Salovaara present.
Two filmmakers scout their next movie.
(3 minutes)
I Love My Friends
Director Lorelei Ramirez present.
Sometimes you can love your friends a little bit too much for them, but not enough for you.
(9 minutes)
The Train Eater
Director Timothy Jacob Elledge present.
A vérité portrait of Timothy Little, known as the Train Eater, a performer who has adopted the NYC subways as his preferred venue in speaking out against police brutality and Trump’s America.
(13 minutes)
Assassination Nation
Starring: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Joel McHale
High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they’ll live through the night.
The Man from Mo’Wax
NEW YORK PREMIERE
James Lavelle played his first DJ set at 14, launched pioneering record label Mo’Wax at 18 and released the genre defining UNKLE album Psyence Fiction at 22. His phenomenally rapid rise seemed limitless, but it’s only when you’re going so fast that the wheels fall off.
THE MAN FROM MO’WAX tells the remarkable story of one of the most enigmatic yet influential figures in contemporary British culture. Unearthed from over 700 hours of footage, including exclusive personal archive spanning three decades, we get the rare opportunity to watch a boy become a man in the world of music.
The result is an exhilarating, no holds-barred ride into the life of an extraordinary man, and an equally extraordinary era, taking in some decidedly flawed decision-making (both personal and professional), Lavelle emerges as an innovative artist who thinks big and consistently overcomes adversity. Featuring DJ Shadow, 3D of Massive Attack, Futura, Ian Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Josh Homme.
La Femme Nikita
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
