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.
A series of irreverent and often tasteless skits as only John Landis can do in THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE!
The film that lead John Landis to Animal House…
The Kentucky Fried Movie is a comedy anthology film that loosely mixes stories (produced and introduced by “Samuel L. Bronkowitz”) with genius parodies of genre films. Everything from early kung-fu films, disaster films, new programs, commercials, blaxploitation films, softcore porn films, mafia films are up for spoofing grabs! It’s completely outlandish and the best kind of schizophrenic movie watching experience one can have after midnite!
Part of Nitehawk’s April TUNE IN, TURN ON midnite series.
Our Tune in, Turn On series kicks off with Gaspar Noe’s vivid “psychedelic melodrama” ENTER THE VOID. A 35mm presentation!
In the long awaited follow up to his controversial film Irreversible, Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void has been called a “revolutionary break from ordinary movie storytelling.” Set in the thumping neon club scene of Tokyo we see two American siblings – Oscar, a druggie, and Linda, a stripper – navigate the city’s seedy underbelly. One day Oscar is shot by the police and his drug-fueled hallucinations of his past transfer into an elevated existence in the afterlife. Noe makes us a part of this visceral journey through all the wonderful and miserable moments in life and death as well as exploring the possibility that there may be more than a void at the end.
Part of Nitehawk’s April TUNE IN, TURN ON midnite series.
The legendary Pink Floyd plays in a vacant 2,000 year old amphitheater in the “anti-Woodstock” film from the 70s PINK FLOYD: LIVE AT POMPEII. A 35mm presentation!
The word “live” in the movie title is a bit of a red herring when it comes to Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, since the only audience in the oldest surviving Roman amphitheater in the world is the film’s crew. But it’s also what makes it all so entrancing. Seeing Floyd bookend a set of late-Sixties space-rock triumphs like “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” and enfant terrible gong-banging freak-outs with Meddle‘s “Echoes” – while watching it all seem to evanesce into the air, amidst the weeds, ancient sculptures and molten lava of Pompeii (with an assist from a barking dog) – seems like the perfect setting for the group. With the addition of some trippy camera effects and studio footage of the group making Dark Side of the Moon, Pompeii became the ultimate document of psych-rock’s transition into prog. – Rolling Stone
Part of Nitehawk’s April TUNE IN, TURN ON midnite series.
An animated cat gets saucy in 1960s New York in Ralph Bakshi’s directorial debut, FRITZ THE CAT. A 35mm presentation!
First things first, Fritz the Cat was the first animated feature film to receive an X-rating in the U.S. (so you know it’s good). It is also based on legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb’s comic strip but he infamously objected over the film’s political content. Fritz the Cat centers around an anthropomorphic college-aged and sex obsessed cat named Fritz who romps through New York during the 1960s exploring hedonism and sociopolitical consciousness. It covers everything from Black Panthers to Hell’s Angels, race relations, free love, and drugs. As far as adult oriented animations, this one is the best!
Part of Nitehawk’s April TUNE IN, TURN ON midnite series.
