Starring: Tamara De Treaux, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Peter Coyote
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders bring to life the beloved characters from S.E. Hinton’s classic young adult fiction novel.
A teen gang in rural Oklahoma, the Greasers are perpetually at odds with the Socials, a rival group. When Greasers Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio) get into a brawl that ends in the death of a Social member, the boys are forced to go into hiding. Soon Ponyboy and Johnny, along with the intense Dallas (Matt Dillon) and their other Greaser buddies, must contend with the consequences of their violent lives. While some Greasers try to achieve redemption, others meet tragic ends.
A terrible dragon is terrorizing the medieval land of Urland in the 6th century. Representatives from the kingdom seek the assistance of the wizard Ulrich (Ralph Richardson) to defeat the dragon immediately — Urland has been delivering virgins to appease the dragon, and their princess (Chloe Salaman) has rigged the lottery system they use in order to sacrifice herself next. But when Ulrich is killed, the task to confront the dragon falls to the wizard’s apprentice, Galen (Peter MacNicol).
From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second, comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls.
The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint.
When a dazzling comet lights up the night’s sky, it dawns on them. They want something more from this connection—a chance to meet, an opportunity to truly know each other. Tugging at the string of fate, they try to find a way to each other. But distance isn’t the only thing keeping them apart. Is their bond strong enough to face the cruel irony of time? Or is their meeting nothing more than a wish upon the stars?
We are playing the subtitled version.
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O’Rourke
Poltergeist took the haunted house and family in film into a whole new era. Brought to you by the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Steven Spielberg, it shows the quick evolution from excitement to fear as the young Freeling family discovers their shiny new home in Cuesta Verde comes with a bad case of the evil spirits. Basically, the first in the Poltergeist series eviscerates middle class America in the 1980s by attacking them where it counts, their planned housing communities, with the technology of the time. Trust us, a television has never been so scary.
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a 35mm screening of AC/DC’s last tour with Bon Scott: AC/DC: LET THERE BE ROCK.
Afterparty in Lo-Res featuring DJ Blurry Murray spinning big, bad, 70s rock on vinyl.
AC/DC live in Paris at what was arguably the height of their powers in December 1979. Following a format similar to Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same – concert footage with some interview material and fantasy/filmed sequences interspersed – this amazing movie record of AC/DC’s last tour with Bon Scott is simple, no holds barred, balls to the wall rock and roll. The group can literally do no wrong as they plow through the following set list:
Live Wire
Shot Down in Flames
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
Sin City
Walk All Over You
Bad Boy Boogie
The Jack
Highway to Hell
Girls Got Rhythm
High Voltage
Whole Lotta Rosie
Rocker
Let There Be Rock
Along the way, we hear about the songwriting process, playing live, and living the rock star dream. It’s all so very drunken and delightful.
Chloë Sevigny reunites with director Whit Stillman in LOVE & FRIENDSHIP where her character, Alicia Johnson, is the friend and confidante to Lady Susan.
Love & Friendship is an adaptation of young Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan that was believed to have been written in the mid 1790s but was finally published by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, in 1871. Set in the 1790s, earlier than most Austen tales, the film concerns beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon who has come to Churchill, the estate of her in-laws, to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst ensconced there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and for her daughter, Frederica. Sevigny plays Lady Susan’s friend and confidante Alicia Johnson and whose husband is the “very Respectable” Mr. Johnson.
Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: CHLOË SEVIGNY.
Release Date: April 3, 1968
Planet of the Apes (co-written by The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling) is a futuristic environment that reverses the evolutionary track; apes are now running things and humans are the meaningless animals. As astronaut George Taylor, Charlton Heston ultimately proves to his simian keepers that not only is he a creature of worth but, also, very much in the wrong place. The horrible discovery that is actually is in the right place but truly at the wrong time is one of the most terrifying reveals in science-fiction films. Damn you all to hell!
Nitehawk’s COUNTRY BRUNCHIN’ goes to a Florida prison with an egg-eating rebel in COOL HAND LUKE. The screening features a live pre-show serenade by SASHA PAPERNIK’S GLASS CARNIVAL!
We all need a little non-conformity these days. Based on Donn Pearce’s 1965 novel, the film version of Cool Hand Luke stars a ruggedly handsome Paul Newman as a Luke Jackson, a prisoner who challenges the system in a Florida jail. Like is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he’s arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. Throughout his institutional tenure, he rages against authority, repeatedly escapes prison, and becomes the bad figure who the guards must make an example of to the other inmates. The screening celebrates fifty years of the film that was a “touchstone of an era.”
