Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Ernie Kovacs
John Van Druten’s stage comedy Bell, Book and Candle starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on Broadway. The 1958 filmed version stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, fresh from their successful teaming in Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Novak plays Gillian Holroyd, a genuine, bonafide witch. Falling in love with publisher Sheperd Henderson (Stewart), Gillian casts a spell on him, obliging him to dump his fiancee and rush to her side. All of this goes against the grain of Gillian’s mentor Mrs. De Pass (Hermione Gingold), who does her best to counterract the love spell. Meanwhile, Gillian’s wacky warlock brother Nicky (Jack Lemmon) courts disaster by coauthoring a book on black magic with pompous, bibulous novelist Sidney Redlitch (Ernie Kovacs).
Starring: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Patrick Wymark, Wilfrid Brambell
A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession – a policy which is exploited to the full.
Starring: Christopher Gray, Emily Tyra, Munro Chambers
New York premiere
Rivalries, dark secrets and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival. With plenty of alcohol and very little food and water, emotions run high and their delusions become a reality. As the days stretch on and death seems inevitable, their terrifying truths float to the surface.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
Bong Joon Ho brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale.
Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity.
Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.
By turns darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, Parasite showcases a modern master at the top of his game.
Starring: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Yvonne de Bray, Suzanne Dehelly, Marie-Claire Olivia, Marina de Berg
Neglected for almost 70 years, Olivia is a remarkable work by one of France’s groundbreaking female filmmakers, Jacqueline Audry. It is set in a 19th century boarding school for girls, a space somewhat reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. While not addressing lesbianism directly, it is the story of the two mistresses of the house, their competition for the affections of their students, and the students’ discovery of the dangerous game of love and attraction.
Starring: Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Hanssel Casillas
A haunting horror fairy tale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, Tigers Are Not Afraid follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents. Filmmaker Issa López creates a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magical realism to conjure a wholly unique experience that audiences will not soon forget.
Starring: Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, Michelle Bauer
Three prim and proper sorority sisters undergo startling changes when a succubus shows up and turns them into voluptuous vixens with insatiable sex drives. Fortunately, the fraternity next door is filled with handsome hunks.
Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Freaks and Geeks premiered? Nitehawk Cinema sure can’t. In honor of this momentous anniversary, we are proud to screen the full-length version of Brent Hodge’s Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary. This documentary explores all that went into making one of the most critically acclaimed television shows of all time that tragically only lasted one unforgettable season. Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Jason Segal, Busy Phillips, James Franco, Martin Starr and many more revisit the show that launched all of their now explosive careers.
Our preshow will present never before seen footage only available from the archives of Freaks and Geeks writers and producers personal collections.
Sit back and enjoy all that was Parisian night suits, drum solos, and a healthy dose of teenage angst.
Ten years ago, Dig! director Ondi Timoner became the only person to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice – this time for We Live in Public, a riveting cautionary tale about what to expect as the virtual world takes control of our lives.
Ten years in the making and culled from 5,000 hours of footage, We Live in Public reveals the effects the internet will have on our society through a series of startling social experiments funded by “the greatest internet pioneer you’ve never heard of” – former internet mogul, artist and visionary, Josh Harris. Called the “Warhol of the Web”, Harris founded Pseudo.com, the first internet television network during the dot-com boom of the 1990s before inviting 150 people into an underground bunker in downtown NYC at the turn of the Millenium, to live together on camera for 30 days, broadcasting every moment of their lives on a closed-circuit network. Before reality television and the existence of online social networks, the bunker demonstrated how willing we are to trade our privacy for the elusive and often unrealized promise of recognition and connection offered by technological advances. Harris’ next experiment, WeLiveinPublic.com, was a 6 month stint broadcasting every moment of his life with his girlfriend from 32 motion-controlled surveillance cameras and 66 microphones, leading to his mental collapse and demonstrating the heavy price we can pay for living in public.
