Wouldn’t it be better if everyone would just die…?
The war between humans and angels is over. The remaining teenage pilots of the massive mecha that saved humanity – the Evangelions – rest warily at home in Tokyo-3. As the emotionally shredded and physically shattered pilots attempt cobble their lives back together, a former ally stages a violent coup that threatens to bring an end to all life on Earth.
The theatrical finale to Hideaki Anno’s crossover sensation, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion is an ambitious and often troubling conclusion that explores themes of abandonment, singularity, and adolescent sexuality. This ain’t your daddy’s apocalypse.
Part of Nitehawk’s November ANIME AFTER DARK 2 midnite series.
The creator of Macross and the creator of Cowboy Bebop team up on one of the best animated and best scored sci-fi action films to ever come out of Japan: MACROSS PLUS.
A high-octane high-flyer with a killer soundtrack, Macross Plus follows a pair of high school rivals turned test pilots – Isamu and Guld – as they compete over a fat government contract in the skies above their home world. On the ground, their mutual schoolyard love – Myung – quietly returns home as the producer of the galaxy’s most popular singer, the computer generated Sharon Apple. Myung’s return sparks a long-dormant affection between the three, but an unspoken trauma prevents them from making peace. As the war games rage on and their passions intensify, an illegal computer chip inserted into Sharon causes her to become sentient, threatening Myung’s life and turning the for-play war above into one for-keeps.
Technically detailed and oozing with style, Macross Plus is a child of two minds. The business of million-missile space battles belongs to Shoji Kawamori, the creator of the original Macross TV series; while the film’s heart, tone and soundtrack comes from its co-director, Shinichiro Watanabe, who would go on to create other cheeky, beat-heavy titles like Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy.
Part of Nitehawk’s November ANIME AFTER DARK 2 midnite series.
Nitehawk Cinema offers a sneak preview of the first two episodes of A&E Network’s gritty new docu- series THE KILLING SEASON. Filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills will be here for a Q&A!
A&E Network’s gritty new docu- series “The Killing Season” from Executive Producer Alex Gibney is an immersive series that follows documentarians, Joshua Zeman (Cropsey) and Rachel Mills, as they investigate one of the most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases of our time — the deaths of ten sex workers discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Authorities believe these killings are the work of theLong Island Serial Killer, who after five years remains at large. Forging relationships with cyber-sleuths, journalists and victim’s families, Zeman and Mills uncover connections that suggest Long Island is just the beginning
This gripping eight-episode series is a deep-dive into a world of serial murder rarely seen before, going beyond pop-culture stereotypes to expose a broken system and real-life American nightmare. However, with the help of Websleuths.com and data journalists, Zeman and Mills learn that everyday citizens can make a difference — by uncovering clues that police cannot, in hopes that one day, “The Killing Season” will end.
“The Killing Season” is produced for A&E Network by Jigsaw Productions & Gigantic Pictures. The series is directed by Joshua Zeman. Executive producers for Jigsaw Productions are Alex Gibney, Joshua Zeman, Rachel Mills, Stacey Offman, and Dave Snyder, and Co-Executive Producers are Brad Hebert, Richard Perello and Showrunner Ben Parry. Executive producers for A&E are Shelly Tatro and Brad Abramson.
“The Killing Season” premieres with back-to-back episodes on Saturday, November 12 at 9pm EST.
Drop into a North Pole research base with Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS special winter screening of the best science fiction film of the 1950s, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD!
Screening beforehand is Object Cinema by Darren banks; an artist film about the life cycle of The Thing an idea and its many material and immaterial filmic forms. Giveaways courtesy of Out of Print and The Strand. Featuring an after-party courtesy of Reyka Vodka!
BOOK DRIVE! We’ll also be hosting a book drive with Books Through Bars for dictionaries and science-fiction/graphic novels to send to incarcerated people across the nation. Please note that paperbacks and books free of marketing are best.
Book: The Thing From Another World is first film adaptation of John Campbell Jr.’s short story, “Wh o Goes There?”
Booze: Inspired Reyka Vodka cocktail
When scientist Dr. Carrington reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry to investigate. What they find is a wrecked spaceship and a humanoid creature frozen in the ice. They bring their discovery back to the base, but Carrington and Hendry disagree over what to do with it. Meanwhile, the creature is accidentally thawed and begins wreaking havoc.
Comedian Kevin Maher observes Halloween a few days early with this celebration of director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist, Lifeforce).
With Special Guests:
Heather Buckley (producer, Red Shirt Pictures, writer, FANGORIA)
John Cribbs (writer from ThePinkSmoke.com)
Matt Glasson (editor/filmmaker LOVE STALKER)
Matthew Hurwitz (cartoonist at DangerBurger.com, writer at VideoFugue.com)
Edwin Samuelson (DVD/Blu-Ray Special Features producer at Samuelson Studios)
Amber Nigro (Kevin Geeks Out About Deadly Women)
Nitehawk Cinema invites you to a very special – and secret! – screening of the concert, transferred to DCP projection. Join us.
After-party with DJ Boogalow in Lo-Res Bar!
Chiba, Japan, April 13, 1990: Entertainment history changed forever when Madonna – at the pinnacle of her unprecedented, megawatt career – launched her Blond Ambition World Tour… considered by many to be the greatest music spectacle of all time. Armored with Gaultier’s platinum corset and leading a platoon of backup singers and dancers, Madonna unleashes a salvo of pop-punk transubstantiation: provocation, confession, redemption, salvation … a masterfully conceived four-act interpretation of seventeen colossal hits … a catharsis of divine exhibitionism and showmanship.
Originally broadcast on HBO on August 5, 1990, M’s last performance – in Nice, France – became the highest-viewed special event in the cable channel’s history, with 4.5 million viewers tuning in. Hastily released the following year on laserdisc, the concert has since fallen out of print, and remains the Holy Grail for Madonna’s legions of fans.
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a special screening of MISS SHARON JONES: DREAMS. Featuring a Q&A with Sharon Jones!
Just added: Matinee screening on Sunday, September 25 also featuring Sharon Jones!
Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band “Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.” In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.
TENEBRE is an Italian murder mystery by the giallo master Dario Argento.
A 35mm screening. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive
Knives, black gloves, and a killer score; that’s giallo cinema to the core. In Argento’s Tenebre, a writer Peter Neal is pulled into a murder mystery as someone familiar with his work begins a series of killings while visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel. While the police look into the crimes, Neal investigates on his own, aided by his beautiful assistant, Anne, and a tenacious young local named Gianni. As the murderer brutally dispatches of other victims, Neal gets closer to discovering the psychopath’s identity.
Part of Nitehawk’s Halloween INTERNATIONAL SLASHER midnite series.
Comedian Kevin Maher hosts a video variety show about cinema’s deadliest women.
The evening of clips and commentary explores character types including: homicidal heroines, lady vigilantes, roving girl gangs and female assassins. Plus a celebration of lesbian vampires, mystical crones, bad seed daughters and femme fatale robots. All this and a salute to Pam Grier!
Featuring presentations by:
Jon Abrams (editor-in-chief, DAILY GRINDHOUSE.com)
Travis Alexandra Boatright (award-winning costume designer)
Amber Dextrous (Friend of KGO)
Tenebrous Kate (host of the podcast BAD BOOKS FOR BAD PEOPLE)
Kevin Rice (writer/producer/director of TV’s GHOUL A GO-GO)
Rommel Wood (NPR producer for ASK ME ANOTHER, host of EAR HAMMER on Radio Free Brooklyn)
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.
