Starring: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen

This film is guaranteed to deliver that holiday spirit for all those dreaming of a white Christmas! Singers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty and Judy Haynes (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly, the boys’ commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing because there’s not a snowflake in site! So what’s the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle via a fun-filled musical extravaganza that’s sure to put Waverly and his business in the black!

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy

What happens when you combine the comic genius of Eddie Murphy with Dan Aykroyd and director John Landis? You get a timeless comedy classic laced with sidesplitting, satiric humor. Murphy stars as a small-time con artist who gets a chance to switch lives with Aykroyd’s big-time stock market maven. But their reversal of fortunes is just a cruel joke perpetrated by two bored mega-rich brothers as part of an idle bet. When the truth comes out, the consequences are sheer comedy gold!

Starring: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri, Kim Tae-ri, Lee Yong-nyeo

From Park Chan-wook, the celebrated director of Old Boy, Lady Vengeance, and Stoker, comes a ravishing new crime drama. Park presents a gripping and sensual tale of two women – a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of a large inheritance. Inspired by the novel Fingersmith by British author Sarah Waters, The Handmaiden borrows the most dynamic elements of its source material and combines it with Park Chan-wook’s singular vision to create an unforgettable viewing experience.

For the Christmas edition of the KEVIN GEEKS OUT show, comedian Kevin Maher and his guests look at their favorite Holiday Specials, from the obvious to the obscure. This two-hour video variety show will stuff your stocking memorable moments from movies and tv specials. 

NOTE: this is an all-new Kevin Geeks Out, not an encore of the 2015 Christmas show. 

Guests include: 
Erin Farrell (cinephile, video editor) 
Wendy Mays (host, PET CINEMATARY podcast) 
Paul Murphy (filmmaker, RED OBSESSION) 
Steve Flack (tv editor and trivia champion)

In partnership with Flying Dog Brewery, Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS goes on a psychedelic journey with FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.

BOOZE: with each ticket audience members get two Flying Dog Brewery beers 
BOOKS: based on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971)

Things start of weird and weirder when Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp doing a spot-on impression of Hunter S. Thompson) and Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro at his heavyweight best) take a mescaline-fulled road trip to Las Vegas. Copious amounts of illegal drugs are consumed, hallucinations projected, and a sequence of oddballs met, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas brings Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo journalism onto the big screen. While Raoul and Dr. Gonzo languish in their drug-induced haze they do have philosophical musings about chasing the American dream and questioning the failure of the counter-culture revolution.

Nitehawk’s CRIME series extends into November as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of John Huston’s classic THE MALTESE FALCON.

Nominated for three Academy Awards, including “Best Picture,” The Maltese Falcon is the film noir classic starring Humphrey Bogart as tough San Francisco private detective Sam Spade. The film details this classic story of Spade’s involvement with a deadly band of international thieves who will lie, double-cross, and murder to obtain a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as the Maltese Falcon.Spade’s (Bogart) partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan), accepts a job protecting a young woman (Mary Astor). Neither Spade nor Archer believe the woman or the story she tells them, but they do believe her money. Then, when Archer is murdered, Spade’s search for the killer drags him in the web of lies and death spun by the desperate people seeking the now-famous statue.

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR presents midnite screening of Sundance discovery THE EYES OF MY MOTHER in December!

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor horrifyingly shatters the idyll of Francisca’s family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening some unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca’s loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a distinctly dark form.

The MATINEE ONE section at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival features eight short films that deal with family and finding one’s place in the world.

Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a special screening of THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION with director Penelope Spheeris!

Q&A with Penelope Spheeris following the film.

Penelope Spheeris’s notorious deep dive into Los Angeles punk culture circa 1980 in The Decline of Western Civilization. The film hit like a bomb on its release in 1981, stirring up such a controversy that the LAPD Chief of Police wrote the filmmaker asking her not to show it again in the city. Along with interviews from band members, the film prominently features raw, bloody, spit-covered performances by groups like Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, X and more.

Part of Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN signature series.

Wouldn’t it be better if everyone would just die…?

The war between humans and angels is over. The remaining teenage pilots of the massive mecha that saved humanity – the Evangelions – rest warily at home in Tokyo-3. As the emotionally shredded and physically shattered pilots attempt cobble their lives back together, a former ally stages a violent coup that threatens to bring an end to all life on Earth.

The theatrical finale to Hideaki Anno’s crossover sensation, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion is an ambitious and often troubling conclusion that explores themes of abandonment, singularity, and adolescent sexuality. This ain’t your daddy’s apocalypse.

Part of Nitehawk’s November ANIME AFTER DARK 2 midnite series.