The creator of Macross and the creator of Cowboy Bebop team up on one of the best animated and best scored sci-fi action films to ever come out of Japan: MACROSS PLUS.
A high-octane high-flyer with a killer soundtrack, Macross Plus follows a pair of high school rivals turned test pilots – Isamu and Guld – as they compete over a fat government contract in the skies above their home world. On the ground, their mutual schoolyard love – Myung – quietly returns home as the producer of the galaxy’s most popular singer, the computer generated Sharon Apple. Myung’s return sparks a long-dormant affection between the three, but an unspoken trauma prevents them from making peace. As the war games rage on and their passions intensify, an illegal computer chip inserted into Sharon causes her to become sentient, threatening Myung’s life and turning the for-play war above into one for-keeps.
Technically detailed and oozing with style, Macross Plus is a child of two minds. The business of million-missile space battles belongs to Shoji Kawamori, the creator of the original Macross TV series; while the film’s heart, tone and soundtrack comes from its co-director, Shinichiro Watanabe, who would go on to create other cheeky, beat-heavy titles like Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy.
Part of Nitehawk’s November ANIME AFTER DARK 2 midnite series.
Nitehawk Cinema offers a sneak preview of the first two episodes of A&E Network’s gritty new docu- series THE KILLING SEASON. Filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills will be here for a Q&A!
A&E Network’s gritty new docu- series “The Killing Season” from Executive Producer Alex Gibney is an immersive series that follows documentarians, Joshua Zeman (Cropsey) and Rachel Mills, as they investigate one of the most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases of our time — the deaths of ten sex workers discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Authorities believe these killings are the work of theLong Island Serial Killer, who after five years remains at large. Forging relationships with cyber-sleuths, journalists and victim’s families, Zeman and Mills uncover connections that suggest Long Island is just the beginning
This gripping eight-episode series is a deep-dive into a world of serial murder rarely seen before, going beyond pop-culture stereotypes to expose a broken system and real-life American nightmare. However, with the help of Websleuths.com and data journalists, Zeman and Mills learn that everyday citizens can make a difference — by uncovering clues that police cannot, in hopes that one day, “The Killing Season” will end.
“The Killing Season” is produced for A&E Network by Jigsaw Productions & Gigantic Pictures. The series is directed by Joshua Zeman. Executive producers for Jigsaw Productions are Alex Gibney, Joshua Zeman, Rachel Mills, Stacey Offman, and Dave Snyder, and Co-Executive Producers are Brad Hebert, Richard Perello and Showrunner Ben Parry. Executive producers for A&E are Shelly Tatro and Brad Abramson.
“The Killing Season” premieres with back-to-back episodes on Saturday, November 12 at 9pm EST.
Drop into a North Pole research base with Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS special winter screening of the best science fiction film of the 1950s, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD!
Screening beforehand is Object Cinema by Darren banks; an artist film about the life cycle of The Thing an idea and its many material and immaterial filmic forms. Giveaways courtesy of Out of Print and The Strand. Featuring an after-party courtesy of Reyka Vodka!
BOOK DRIVE! We’ll also be hosting a book drive with Books Through Bars for dictionaries and science-fiction/graphic novels to send to incarcerated people across the nation. Please note that paperbacks and books free of marketing are best.
Book: The Thing From Another World is first film adaptation of John Campbell Jr.’s short story, “Wh o Goes There?”
Booze: Inspired Reyka Vodka cocktail
When scientist Dr. Carrington reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry to investigate. What they find is a wrecked spaceship and a humanoid creature frozen in the ice. They bring their discovery back to the base, but Carrington and Hendry disagree over what to do with it. Meanwhile, the creature is accidentally thawed and begins wreaking havoc.
In MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, an uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies.
After the death of his older brother Joe, Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked that Joe has made him sole guardian of his teenage nephew Patrick. Taking leave of his job as a janitor in Boston, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea, the fishing village where his working-class family has lived for generations. There, he is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and the community where he was born and raised.
Starring: Naomie Harris, André Holland, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders
A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Jenkins’s staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.
Comedian Kevin Maher observes Halloween a few days early with this celebration of director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist, Lifeforce).
With Special Guests:
Heather Buckley (producer, Red Shirt Pictures, writer, FANGORIA)
John Cribbs (writer from ThePinkSmoke.com)
Matt Glasson (editor/filmmaker LOVE STALKER)
Matthew Hurwitz (cartoonist at DangerBurger.com, writer at VideoFugue.com)
Edwin Samuelson (DVD/Blu-Ray Special Features producer at Samuelson Studios)
Amber Nigro (Kevin Geeks Out About Deadly Women)
Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present a preview screening of THE EYES OF MY MOTHER. Q&A with director Nicolas Pesce.
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.
Join us for an after-party featuring Jameson Irish Whiskey in Lo-Res Bar!
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI’s training academy, is sent to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to provide insight into a serial killer being pursued by the FBI. In a now iconic role, Anthony Hopkin’s Lecter is a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for acts of murder and cannibalism. Tense, beautiful and arresting, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter’s slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it.
Nitehawk’s Booze & Books and Music Driven have partnered with Rough Trade to present GIMME SHELTER celebrating Joel Selvin’s book, Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day.
Q&A with Joel Selvin following the screening moderated by Danny Goldberg, President of GoldVE Entertainment.
Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment. – Criterion
