In EX-MACHINA, a young programmer must evaluate the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.
Caleb Smith (Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test – charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated–and more deceptive–than the two men could have imagined.
10th Anniversary Director’s Cut
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) examines the early DIY punk scene in the nation’s capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi and others released their own records and booked their own shows—without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny.
Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry’s subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC’s original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.
Nitehawk presents a special one night only screening of Harmony Korine’s tale of a vacation gone off the rails SPRING BREAKERS along with everyone’s favorite cinematic aphrodisiac; 35mm trailers with Wild Eye Releasing!
Rinse out the beer bong and pack plenty of coppertone because we’re throwing a Spring Break bash and you’re all invited! Our pals at Wild Eye Releasing are back for Spring Breakers and they’ve brought another treasure chest of all 35mm trailers spanning from the 70s to the 90s! Teenage exploitation! Sex comedies! A full cooler of all the best party favors spooled out in glorious 35mm! Show up early and lay down the beach blanket for Spring Break insanity! Then get ready for…
Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning. During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. Rough on the outside but with a soft spot inside, Alien wins over the hearts of the young Spring Breakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined.
Spring Break forever, bitches!
Special Midnite Screenings! Endlessly irreverent and wildly, hilariously visceral, WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL? is a Tarantino-esque ode to the yakuza films of yore, and features an over-the-top, blood-soaked finale for the ages.
Based on a screenplay he wrote nearly fifteen years ago, Why Don’t You Play In Hell? is among Sono’s very best work, as his trademark excess and outrageousness is infused with an affection for the previous century of Japanese cinema. This is Sion Sono with his talent and unique vision completely unleashed.
There’s a war going on, but that won’t stop the inexperienced but eager wannabe film crew The Fuck Bombers from following their dreams of making the ultimate action epic. Ten years ago, yakuza mid-boss Ikegami led an assault against rival don Muto. Now, on the eve of his revenge, all Muto wants to do is complete his masterpiece, a feature film with his daughter in the starring role, before his wife is released from prison. And The Fuck Bombers are standing by with the chance of a lifetime: to film a real, live yakuza battle to the death…on 35mm!
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kevin Smith’s MALLRATS.
On the skids after their girlfriends kick them to the curb, New Jersey layabouts JD and Brody (Jeremy London & Jason Lee) seek refuge at that wonderful crossroads of commerce and humanity: the mall. Keeping them down on their quest to loaf about and argue about how Superman has sex are an ex’s hateful father (Michael Rooker) and a snotty store manager (Ben Affleck) with eyes on Brody’s girlfriend. Determined to win back their ex’s, the pair team up with a ragtag crew of ex-girlfriends, pot peddlers and comic book legends.
An unknown comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost divine talent in THE NATURAL.
An adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s 1952 novel, The Natural is part of the inspirational baseball film tradition that shows how determination, belief in one’s self, and hard work can produce tremendous rewards. Robert Redford stars as Roy Hobbs, an incredibly talented baseball player who, since childhood, has dreamed of baseball super-stardom and has the goods to back it up. But on his way to achieving his goals, he meets a mysterious and disturbed woman who shatters his goals. Years later, he reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights who, overcoming physical pain and against all odds, defies the nay-sayers to fight for the Knights’ pennant win.
Part of Nitehawk’s April PLAY BALL 3: BASES LOADED series.
Join in as grandfather tells the tale of the best fairytale adventure story ever with kissing, THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. First things first, to the death. When I was your age, television was called books. DEATH FIRST! Your princess is quite a winning creature. A trifle simple, perhaps. Her appeal is undeniable. He’s dead. He can’t talk. Is this a kissing book? As you wish.
Part of Nitehawk’s April ONCE UPON A TIME brunch series.
Starring: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach
The NeverEnding Story is the movie that’s part of everyone’s childhood film watching history! Based on Michael Ende’s novel, the story features a young boy named Bastian who escapes his bullied childhood by entering the fantasy world via a mysterious ancient storybook. Although warned of the book’s potential dangers by the bookshop’s old proprieter, Bastian “borrows” it one day and begins to read it in his school’s attic. He’s immediately drawn into the land of Fantasia where a young warrior named Atreyu and his luckdragon Falkor must stop the dark storm called Nothing from destroying the Childlike Empress and, well, everything else.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson
Space dreams come true for a group of misfit friends after they build a spacecraft in their backyard laboratory. This all comes about after one of them envisions the plan in which to make the spaceship and another has the smarts to create the complex computer program that builds it and another actually constructs it. As they head off into the great unknown of space in their homemade shuttle name Thunder Road, their adventure takes them to another galaxy where things are not quite what they would seem!
Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takeshi Naitō, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Spirited Away tells the fantastical tale of a young girl named Chihiro whose family becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits after making an unexpected stop during their move to the suburbs. However the amusement park they find themselves in isn’t what it seems, in fact it’s inhabited by demons, spirits, and evil gods! Soon Chihiro, along with her new friend Haku, try to reverse her parents’ mysterious transformation into animals and return to the world of the living.
