Nitehawk presents a special 35mm Live Sound Cinema presentation of Woody Allen’s SLEEPER with live score by Dead Heavens and Delicate Steve.

Miles (Woody Allen) isn’t exactly the hero type; the owner of a health food store in 1970’s New York, Miles winds up accidentally getting the T.V. dinner treatment when he wanders into a cryogenics lab. Miles wakes up 200 years later in a goofball sci-fi future that’s led by history’s most inept police state. Miles falls in with a rebel group trying to take the government down, and it turns out, only a person from humanity’s past can get through government security. The group sends Miles out to assassinate the government leader, and together with a clueless artist (Diane Keaton), the nebbishy New Yorker grapples with a host of oddball sci-fi gadgets and gizmos, from a malfunctioning jetpack to something called the Orgasmatron — The future doesn’t sound so bad, really.

Part of Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA Signature Series.

Nitehawk Cinema’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival’s series on New York filmmakers continues with a special screening of AVA’S POSSESSIONS. Q&A after the screening with director Jordan Galland and cast member Wass Stevens!

Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she is forced to attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group. As Ava struggles to reconnect with her friends, get her job back, and figure out where the huge blood stain in her apartment came from, she is plagued by nightmarish visions–the demon is trying to come back.

Part of Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR monthly series with the Tribeca Film Festival that features independent New York filmmakers.

Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a screening of STARDUST MEMORIES in celebration of Tom Shone’s new book “Woody Allen: A Retrospective” published by Abrams Books. Shone will introduce the film!

Update: Tom Shone will sign copies of the book before the screening!

Filmmaker Sandy Bates goes fully into his own existential crisis while attending a retrospective of his work. Recounting his past relationships as the complications of his present ones play out, he searches for meaning both in work and in love. The tender balance between the tragedy and comedy of life plays out as he weighs the importance of each. And while it seems that his audience prefers to look at the bright side of life amongst all the tragedy, Sandy can’t resist staying in the muck.

In Woody Allen: A Retrospective, author Tom Shone traces Allen’s entire professional life as an entertainer and director, weaving in archival and original interviews, and accompanying this new critical monograph with more than 250 behind-the-scenes stills, photographs, posters, and ephemera. Tom Shone is the film critic for the Guardian US and the Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine. He has written for Slate, the New Yorker, and the Sunday Times. He is the author of Blockbuster, In the Rooms, and Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective (Abrams, 2014).

Please note that we offer two ticket prices for Stardust Memories. The $45 ticket includes a copy of the book two weeks before it’s release and at a discounted rate! Just select the option when purchasing and present your ticket to pick up in our lobby the night of the screening! Take a sneak peek at the book below…

Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s BOOZE & BOOKS signature series.

Comedian Kevin Maher presents an obsessive look at one of Science Fiction’s most often employed (and misunderstood) characters: the Female Robot.

This show spotlights ass-kicking killbots and seductive replicants, plus electric grandmothers and feminist revolutionaries. Kevin and guests explore the question: what does a wholly manufactured woman want, and what will she do to get it?

The one-night-only show is a virtual parade of robots from the last 100 years of science fiction, featuring Frisky Fembots of the 1960s, Cyber-clones of the ‘20s, Killer Androids of the ‘80s and much more.

Guests include:

• Co-host Tom Blunt (Word & Film blogger, host of Meet the Lady)
• Cici James (owner of Singularity & Co. science-fiction bookstore)
• Seth Porges (technology writer/editor)
• Jenn Northington (co-founder, Bookrageous)
• Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3) 
• Ariel Italic (Nobodies Hosting Drag Race)

After two sell out screenings, it’s back! Heavy Metal Splatterfest DEATHGASM shreds again at midnite.

After his mother is institutionalized, misfit Brodie is sent to live with his Uncle Albert and Aunt Mary, whose son David torments him. A heavy metal fan, Brodie forms a band called DEATHGASM with his friends Zakk, Dion, and Giles. When bandmates break into a local house, they discover that one of their idols, reclusive musician Rikki Daggers, lives there. Daggers gives the band magical sheet music, which a cult later murders him to find. Skeptical of the sheet music’s power, the band plays it, only to summon a demon. With the help of his crush, Medina, and his bandmates, Brodie must find a way to defeat the demon.

Starring: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton

When a teenaged prodigy steps onto the prestigious campus of Pacific Tech, he’s partnered up with the school’s living legend: Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), a super-genius whose time at school has turned him into a world class slacker. The college’s resident jerk professor (William Atherton, naturally) plops the two of them onto a secret laser project, kicks back and lets the kids do all the work for him. Little does Chris and his gaggle of geeks know, the laser project is actually an undercover weapons project for the CIA.

Director Martha Coolidge first broke ground as a filmmaker in the New York documentary scene before moving to California to rub elbows with the Coppola clan at Zoetrope. She broke big when she took a sleazy teen exploitation script and flipped it into the fun and heartfelt Valley Girl. Before making Real Genius, Coolidge spent time rubbing elbows with actual eggheads at Caltech, and rewrote the script based off of her experiences.

Sex, rap, and family values? CB4, a 35mm presentation!

Hip hop parody CB4 follows a trio of two-bit rappers trying to make it in the rap game. After endless stalled attempts, the group finally strikes gold when they take on identities of a bunch of prison-bred lunatics out to shock anyone and everyone. The result is a machine-gun spoof on race and taste in popular music with sights set on pearl-clutching suburbanites, industry buffoons, wannabe rappers, furious afrocentrics, and psychotic gangsters.

Director Tamra Davis got her start directing music videos in the 1980s, an environment she found more welcoming to female directors. After working with acts like Husker Du, NWA, Sonic Youth and Black Flag, Davis moved on to features, first with indie crime drama Guncrazy and then breaking big with comedies like CB4, Billy Madison and Half Baked.

Part of Nitehawk’s September SHE MADE IT brunch, midnite, and special event series.

XX directors picked the film with the one place you don’t want to be buried…PET SEMATARY.

When a doctor uproots his family from Chicago to a small town in Maine, the bucolic piece of property they buy has a couple of a hiccups. First: there’s that mean-stretch of highway where semi-trucks rocket past in the middle of the night; then, there’s the pet cemetery, and well, it’s best not to go to the pet cemetery. Local legend has it that anything that gets buried in that cursed earth won’t stay dead for long, and when a truck runs down the good doctor’s youngest son, he soon finds out that what goes into the ground isn’t the same when it comes out.

Part of Nitehawk’s XX Selects midnite series featuring film selected by XX directors.

Exploitation pioneer Doris Wishman makes the move from nudies to slasher with A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER.

A mondo splatterfest from cult director Doris Wishman, A Night to Dismember chronicles a single bloody night in the life of the only remaining member of a cursed family. Production began for the film after Wishman witnessed the runaway success of Halloween and its imitators – smelling money in the air, the seasoned director hopped on the slasher bandwagon, casting porn actress Samantha Fox in the lead. Troubled from the get go, bankruptcy caused the project’s film lab to shut down and over half of the film ended up in the dumpster. Ever vigilant, Wishman finished her frankenfilm with reshoots and overdubs, amounting in a bizarro slasher mess for the ages.

Part of Nitehawk’s September SHE MADE IT brunch, midnite, and special event series.

Nitehawk and Nerd York City celebrate the 30th anniversary of cult horror anime VAMPIRE HUNTER D with a freshly remastered HD presentation from Sentai Filmworks and giveaways courtesy of Dark Horse Comics.

Humans have a rough run in the 10,000 year gap between our time and the blighted future of Vampire Hunter D. It’s the year 12,090 A.D., and humans live as serfs under the fierce rule of ancient aristocratic vampires and their personal cadre of ghouls, bandits and beasties. When one such lord falls for a young farm girl, she hires a wandering stranger as a bodyguard. Fortunately for her, this wandering loner is D, a legendary vampire hunter and the only person capable of standing up to the powerful vampire lord.

Directed by Toyoo Ashida of Fist of the North Star fame and based on a popular series of horror novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D is one of anime’s first blood-and-guts fantasies, blending elements of American westerns with classic European horror and cyber punk. The film garnered an international cult following thanks to the import-friendly home video market.

Part of Nitehawk’s September ANIME AFTER DARK midnite series.