Starring: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 British silent film THE LODGER with a live score by MORRICONE YOUTH!
A Jack-the-Ripper type murderer called “The Avenger” is terrorizing London by targeting young blond women. How Hitchcockian! At the same time of these attacks, a mysterious man takes a room at the a family-owned boarding house and strikes up a relationship with the proprietor’s pretty blonde daughter. To thicken the plot, she’s engaged to a policeman hot on the trail of “The Avenger” who thinks her Lodger lover is the serial killer! Part of the restored newly restored “Hitchcock Nine” by the British Film Institute, The Lodger is considered the “first true Hitchcock film” and is, obviously, a thrilling way to kick start your Halloween.
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man in ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN!
Featuring frighteningly fun giveaways courtesy of Universal Monsters Universe and Royal Collectibles!
The classics never go out of style! In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum’s director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou’s friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
Join a group of a young American traveling sales crew in Andrea Arnold’s immersive road movie AMERICAN HONEY.
Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American mid-west selling Magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard partying, law-bending and young love.
Nate Parker’s THE BIRTH OF A NATION tells of the violent slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in 1831.
Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom. So, on August 1831, he leads a violent rebellion to free himself and other slaves in Southampton County, Va.
Oliver Stone’s biographical political thriller SNOWDEN tells the personal story of former NSA employee Edward Snowden.
Q&A on Friday, September 16 after the 6:30pm show with film critic Matt Zoller Seitz and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani to discuss Seitz’s new book The Oliver Stone Experience from Abrams Books.
Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gorden-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and become one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a trailer by others. No matter which you believe, the epic story of why he did it, who he left behind, and how he pulled it off makes for one of the most compelling films of the year.
For one weekend only, Nitehawk presents UNDER THE SUN, the film that shows a rare glimpse into North Korea.
“My father says that Korea is the most beautiful country… Korea is the land of the rising sun,” says eight-year-old schoolgirl Zin-mi. Despite continuous interference by government handlers, director Vitaly Mansky still managed to document life in Pyongyang, North Korea in this fascinating portrait of one girl and her parents in the year as she prepares to join the Korean Children’s Union on the ‘Day Of The Shining Star’ (Kim Jong-Il’s birthday). As the family receives instruction on how to be the ideal patriots, Mansky’s watchful camera capture details from comrades struggling to stay awake during an official event to Zin-mi’s tears at a particularly grueling dance lesson.
Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR presents a screening of DESERT CATHEDRAL, an innovative hybrid narrative about a real estate developer who mysteriously disappears into the desert.
Q&A with writer/director Travis Gutiérrez Senger and actor Lee Tergesen, moderated by Tilson Allen-Merry.
Utilizing actual found footage, Desert Cathedral tells the story of a broken real estate developer, Peter Collins, played by Lee Tergesen (Oz, Generation Kill, Monster), who mysteriously disappears into the Southwest in 1992, leaving behind a series of VHS tapes to his employer and family. Without the aid of the police, his desperate wife (Petra Wright) hires private investigator, Duran Palouse, played by Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga) to locate his whereabouts and bring him home. After the two befriend each other, Peter discovers Duran’s true identity and flees deeper into the depths of the desert where, through a cat-and-mouse chase climax, tragedy strikes.
ART SEEN presents two weekend screenings of DON’T BLINK – ROBERT FRANK, Laura Israel’s portrait of the legendary photographer and filmmaker.
Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographer’s candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism. Today it is a classic work that helped define the off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic elegance that are hallmarks of Frank’s artistry. Director Laura Israel (Frank’s longtime film editor) and producer Melinda Shopsin were given unprecedented access to the notably irascible artist. The assembled portrait is not unlike Frank’s own movies – rough around the edges and brimming with surprises and insights – calling to mind Frank’s quintessential underground movie, the 1959 Beat short, PULL MY DAISY (co-directed by Alfred Leslie). DON’T BLINK includes clips from Frank’s rarely seen movies, among them ME AND MY BROTHER and COCKSUCKER BLUES. The soundtrack includes Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, White Stripes, Yo La Tengo, Tom Waits, and more.
Come make music with the children of the night as Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS screens Tod Browning iconic DRACULA.
Books: Dracula t-shirt giveaways courtesy of Out of Print and frighteningly fun giveaways courtesy of Universal Monsters Universe and Royal Collectibles!
Booze: An bloody inspired cocktail is in the works
Bram Stoker’s seminal horror novel Dracula has seen countless adaptations on the big screen yet none are quite as memorable as Tod Browning’s eternal classic, Dracula. Although a loose adaptation of the book, the film has shaped our idea of who or what a vampire and this is no doubt due to Bela Lugosi’s brilliant turn as Count Dracula. In it he hypnotizes a British soldier named Renfield into being his mindless slave as he travels to London and takes up in an old castle. As vampires do, he starts sucking the blood of young women until one catches his fancy. Unfortunately for her, she’s the daughter of the prominent doctor and vampire hunter Van Helsing!
Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS celebrates the 50th anniversary of Truman Capote’s novel with a screening of IN COLD BLOOD.
Books: In Cold Blood t-shirt giveaways courtesy of Out of Print
Booze: An inspired cocktail is in the works
When the Herbert Clutter family was murdered in their small farming community of Kansas, American author Truman Capote and fellow writer Harper Lee, went to investigate. The result of Capote’s interviews with the residents, investigators, and those charged with the crime was the publication of the non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood, in 1966. The film adaptation the following here shows the two ex-convicts Perry Smith and Richard “Dick” Hickock as they hatch a plan to rob the Clutters. When they discover there is no money in the house they kill the entire family in a fight of rage and flee. While on the run, they face not only the realities of their terrible crime but also their own earthly impermanence.
Part of Nitehawk’s fall CRIME series.
