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The Brotherhood of Satan

Starring: Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman, Ahna Capri

For their October edition, The Deuce-Boys stop by The Liberty Theatre for 1971’s THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN – starring, produced and written by L.Q. Jones!

A young couple and their daughter on their way to grandma’s house find themselves trapped in the back-woods town of Woodley – where parents are being bumped-off at an alarming rate and the fate of the little orphans are held in the hands of… geriatric Satan fanatics!!

More concerned to make you squirm than scream – with a strange sense of plotting and some “wtf!?!” storytelling – producer and star (and Peckinpah regular) LQ Jones – along with director Bernard McEveety – create an atmosphere ripe with unease and nightmare logic… and deliver some real heebie-jeebies!! Beautifully lensed and bizarre beyond belief – THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN will get under your skin!!!

 

Kevin Geeks Out: A Night of Seven Supercuts

*** ONE SHOW ONLY – LIMITED SEATING ***

A “Greatest Hits” show from the long-running video variety series KEVIN GEEKS OUT, Nitehawk’s multi-media comedy event that’s been an editor’s pick in The New York Times and Scientific American.

Each KEVIN GEEKS OUT show features one condensed movie or TV show. In 5 – 10 minutes, the audience gets a curated cutdown, “The Kindest Cut” if you will.

The July show collects the best supercuts from the last 10 years of shows, featuring:

* Kung-fu wizards
* An environmental monster movie
* An under-seen slobs-vs-snobs prep school comedy
* The ultimate 1990’s women’s wrestling epic
* A made-for-tv movie from a master of horror
* and a few films or tv shows that THE AUDIENCE WILL CHOOSE DURING THE EVENT!

Join comedian Kevin Maher and his special guests for this one-of-a-kind multi-media extravaganza that will caulk the gaps in your pop culture knowledge.

With Special Guests:

John Beaman (Documentary photographer)

M. Sweeney Lawless (writer, Euphobia comedy group)

John Cribbs (Head Writer, The Pink Smoke website)

“One of the best shows in NYC” – Hy Bender, BestNewYorkComedy.com

“Kevin Maher is a mad genius.” – SyFy.com

Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood

Starring: Janine Carazo, Jerome Dempsey, Daniel Dietrich

The Norris family get jobs working at a seedy old carnival as a cover for searching for their missing son who disappeared after visiting said carnival. Eccentric manager Mr. Blood turns out to be a vampire while the evil owner Malatesta rules over a gaggle of ghastly ghouls who watch silent movies when they aren’t feasting on human flesh.

Cape Fear (1991)

Starring: Robert Deniro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

American Animals

Starring: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Jared Abrahamson, Blake Jenner, Ann Dowd

The unbelievable but entirely true story of four young men who attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history. The film centers around two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky. Spencer is determined to become an artist but feels he lacks the essential ingredient that unites all great artists – suffering. His closest friend, Warren, has also been raised to believe that his life will be special, and that he will be unique in some way. But as they leave the suburbs for universities in the same town, the realities of adult life begin to dawn on them and with that, the realization that their lives may in fact never be important or special in any way.

Determined to live lives that are out of the ordinary, they plan the brazen theft of some of the world’s most valuable books from the special collections room of Spencer’s college Library. Enlisting two more friends, and taking their cues from heist movies, the gang meticulously plots the theft and subsequent fence of the stolen artworks. Although some of the group begin to have second thoughts, they discover that the plan has seemingly taken on a life of its own. Unfolding from multiple perspectives, and innovatively incorporating the real-life figures at the heart of the story, writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter) takes the heist movie into bold new territory.

PEOPLE ARE WONDERFUL AND STRANGE

PEOPLE ARE WONDERFUL AND STRANGE features a selection of women directed short films that imbue the intangible quality of humanity that can be as weird as it is universally relatable. Programmed by Meghan Oretsky (Curator, Vimeo) and Caryn Coleman (Director of Programming/Special Projects, Nitehawk Cinema).

This program is part of The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective turning 10! To celebrate, The BFC has partnered with some of New York City’s top programmers, curators and cinemas to create a showcase of our members’ work and celebrate the ethos of collaborative filmmaking.

 

THE PROGRAM

70-SOME YEARS
Directed by Riley Hooper | 7 1/2 mins
Henry skied for 70-some years.

FILL YOUR HEART WITH FRENCH FRIES
Directed by Tamar Glezerman | 20 mins
A short sad comedy about a woman who gets dumped by her girlfriend at a fast food joint, and, too sad to go home, just stays there for a week.

INTUITION
Directed by Danielle Lurie | 8 mins
A short film set in Barcelona about a woman who is unable to listen to herself.

MUMBAI MORNINGS
Directed by Veena Rao | 7 mins
At 5am everyday, before the crowds, traffic and heat descend on the city, Abbas Sheikh, a top ultramarathon runner, gets up to run along Mumbai’s picturesque Marine Drive. By 9am, he is at work in a hot, cramped factory where he polishes jewelry for 12 hours a day. Abbas describes these contrasting realities and the world that has opened up to him while running through the vibrant city he calls home.

POLICA – AGREE
Directed by Maria Juranic | 3 mins
Bonnie and Clyde inspired story of two lovers being chased by law.

REFLECTION
Directed by Hazuki Alkawa | 21 mins
Young and single, Tara struggles to find harmony in a world critical of her son’s queer behavior. Increasingly aware of what it means to go against society’s “normal”, she finds it difficult to accept who her son wants to be.

THE SLOPE – SEASON 2, EPISODE 1 “TAKING SPACE”
Directed by Desiree Akhavan & Ingrid Jungermann | 5 mins
A comedy that follows the lives of a lesbian couple navigating their way through modern-day Park Slope, Brooklyn. One year into their relationship, Ingrid and Desiree continue to hash out a power dynamic that ends up making them look homophobic, superficial and ultimately, perfect for one another.

BAD AT DANCING
Directed by Joanna Arnow | 11mins
A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The two women test each other’s sexual and emotional boundaries in this surreal dark comedy.

BEATRICE
Directed by Lorena Alvarado | 9 1/2 mins
Beatrice Vio started fencing on her feet when she was five years old. Struck with meningitis at eleven not only left her with all four of her limbs amputated, but it completely shifted her relationship with the sport she loves. With the unconditional support of her family, Beatrice went to become the world Paralympic fencing champion at the age of nineteen.

Click here for information on the additional screenings and programs for the BFC! celebration.

 

About THE BFC: 
The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is a supportive community of 50+ filmmakers who come together for weekly peer workshops.
Our goal is to create a collaborative filmmaking community that supports and encourages each member to make their strongest work. We meet once a week for three hours to workshop projects in various stages from development to final cut and beyond. Central to the collective is fostering a generous community that shares knowledge, skills, and connections. We are a consensus-based group that values equitable interactions and diverse voices.

Sorry to Bother You

Starring: Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler

In a dystopian, not-too-distant future Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe of material glory. As his friends and co-workers organize in protest of corporate oppression, Cassius falls under the spell of his company’s cocaine-snorting CEO Steve Lift, who offers him a salary beyond his wildest dreams.

THE ASTROLOGER

Starring: Craig Denney, Darrien Earle, Arthyr Chadbourne

In the tradition of The Holy Mountain, Pink Flamingos and The Room comes a slice of batsh*t cinema that must be viewed at midnight. This rarely screened cult oddity is a fascinating passion project (the sole film from director/star Craig Denny) that combines carny mysticism, international high adventure and a Christ allegory for good measure. After Craig Denny (in his egomaniacal glory) failed to secure rights to The Moody Blues tunes heard throughout the film, THE ASTROLOGER never received an official release.

In an era where the trashiest, weirdest films are getting 4k scans from Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome and Shout! Factory, THE ASTROLOGER remains a quaint reminder of tape-trading days and the golden age of cult films. Here is a movie that will most likely NEVER receive an official Blu-Ray or DVD. Not only do you need to see this on the big screen with a wild midnite audience… you have to.

This may be your only chance to see THE ASTROLOGER in 2018.

Barbarella

Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea

Release Date: October 16, 1968

Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite.

The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhibited manner, the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether she is wrestling with Black Guards, the evil Queen, or the Angel Pygar, she just can’t seem to avoid losing at least a part of her skin-tight space suit!

Girl on a Motorcycle

Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton

Release Date: September 12, 1968

Marianne Faithfull stars as Rebecca, a bored housewife who bolts from her home in the French countryside to visit her lover, Daniel, in Germany. Wearing nothing but a form-fitting black leather suit (the film was originally called Naked Under Leather in the U.S.), the lusty Rebecca races across the country, and in flashback remembers the start of their affair. She recalls the initial, furtive glances in her father’s bookstore, her elaborate sexual fantasies and their long-awaited consummation. Most important of all is the motorcycle itself, a gift from Daniel that seems to give her more pleasure than any man could deliver.

Directed by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff in pulsating psychedelic hues, GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE has emerged from obscurity to become more than a cult favorite; it is a touchstone film of 1960s Euro youth culture.