Starring: Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini, Crispin Glover
Shot after the pilot of “Twin Peaks” and released at the height of the show’s popularity, Wild at Heart was the first time that a David Lynch film hinged on being a DAVID LYNCH FILM. The story of a pair of young lovers on the run from the young girl’s psychotic mother sticks largely to convention, but doesn’t lack in the director’s token knack for violence and dark humor.
Rather than deliver a juicy, pulpy crime story, Lynch offers up a sun-bleached, heavy metal version of The Wizard of Oz, complete with witches, yellow brick roads and the clicking heels of ruby slippers.
Starring: Maxwell Frey, Derek Gibbons, Kristen Martin, Clint Keepin, Adam Maid, Danielle Grace, Rachel LaForest
On the eve of its VOD release, Nitehawk presents PSYCHOTIC!, a wild horror film about a group of hard-partying Brooklyn hipsters who are stalked and savagely murdered by a masked maniac known as the Bushwick Party Killer.
As if paying their ridiculous $1,400-a-month rent in Bushwick wasn’t bad enough, struggling artists Tim and Stuart can’t even enjoy the Brooklyn party scene without stumbling across mutilated bodies and a homicidal maniac’s reign of terror. The hardest fact of all to accept, though, is that the maniac is most likely one of their friends. With that whodunit set-up and their intimately authentic use of their hometown Bushwick setting, co-directors Maxwell Frey and Derek Gibbons turn Brooklyn into a giallo-inspired nightmare in this stylish and corpse-ridden ode to slasher movies. – Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Jörg Buttgereit’s notorious West German exploitation film about Betty and Rob, a couple with a very particular set of kinks: making it with body parts and corpses. Rob works at a cleaning service that collects human remains after accidents and murders, a perfect gig for the dude, really. He sneaks off with human bits to satisfy his and Betty’s flesh fetish, but one day he strikes gold and brings home the ultimate prize: a full, rotted human corpse.
Banned in multiple countries for years, this hyper-low budget softcore splatter comedy boasts untold grotesqueries as well as themes that connect pleasure and death; abandonment and impotence; and personal freedom in the face of West German conservatism.
An incendiary look at punk’s origins is now theatrically available for the first time since the 1980s. D.O.A. centers around the Sex Pistols’ ill-fated ’78 U.S. tour, which ended with the group infamously disbanding. This molotov cocktail of a film (produced by High Times Magazine) also features incredible, indelible live footage of fellow giants X-Ray Spex, Generation X w/ Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Dead Boys.
Starring: Sunita Mani, Tallie Medel, Eleanore Pienta, Kate Berlant, Reggie Watts, Bob Armstrong, Joe Pera, Keith Poulson
This blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs—Tallie Medel, Sunita Mani & Eleanore Pienta—lounge about, fight beachballs, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe. (Nellie Killian)
Starring: Monica West, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Michelle Ang, Bhavesh Patel, Liam Vincent
This award-winning series, written by Monica West and directed by Catherine Fordham, addresses the age old question of whether to bae or not to bae. Mae (played by West) is an up-and-coming entrepreneur who sets her sights on the opportunity of a lifetime but when she unexpectedly meets the man of her dreams, she feels forced to decide between pursuing career success or starting a family.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps
Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.
With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth movie, and his second collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis.
Directors: Sam Goetz, Jason Giampietro, Leah Shore, Tom Brown, Sasha Gransjean, Zia Anger, LJ Frezza, Frances Bodomo, Celia Rowlson Hall, Efren Hernandez, Peyton Skyler, Christina Choe, and The Eyeslicer
Missed THE EYESLICER ROADSHOW at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival? Well never fear, because now you can joinTHE EYESLICER for one more sick, strange midnight transmission at the official season one WRAP PARTY. One night only!!
THE EYESLICER is a mind-melting new TV show that will slice, dice, then mince your eyeballs into delicious ceviche. Each episode in the ten-episode, ten-hour first season plays like a handcrafted mixtape blending boundary-pushing short form work into into a weird, wild, uninterrupted whole. From vérité documentary to amateur computer animation. Surreal horror to remix video art. Haunted high school yearbooks to Sasquatch birth rituals. Twisted bedtime stories to time traveling cats… if it sounds too crazy for the rest of the Internet, chances are you’ll see it onTHE EYESLICER.
To celebrate the end of our season one broadcast, The Eyeslicer will be bringing our two strangest, grossest, Cronenbergy-est episodes to the Nitehawk on Saturday, January 13th. You’ll see urinal horror, amateur dentistry, high school baseball seizures, possible hernias, game shows hosted by death, Seinfeld remixes, and much, much more. Plus — a pre-party to celebrate the wrap of season one (starting at 10pm in the Nitehawk’s Lo-Res bar) and a special midnight snack for everyone who stays for the screening!
Set in one of the most revolutionary periods in both Alabama and American history, Selma follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the days leading to the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. As the marchers approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, violence erupted, sparking a grim, yet crucial conflict that shook the nation and led to Congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
