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L.A. Readers! Arthur Hiller's NIGHTWING Takes Flight At The Nuart Friday @ Midnight!!!
Beaks here...
Yes, NIGHTWING. The Arthur Hiller-directed horror movie that mixed bats, Native American mysticism and David Warner. The one that hasn't been available on home video since the Reagan administration. The one that, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't been screened publicly since the Carter administration. That NIGHTWING.
This Friday (February 27th) at midnight, it's fluttering out of obscurity for a gala 30th anniversary screening at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles. For the first time in decades, you're going to have a chance to see NIGHTWING on the big screen! In glorious 35mm! With stars Nick Mancuso (TICKET TO HEAVEN, UNDER SIEGE and television's STINGRAY) and Stephen Macht (THE MONSTER SQUAD, THE MOUNTAIN MEN, and, currently, GENERAL HOSPITAL)!
Mancuso and Macht will hang around for a post-film Q&A and an autograph signing session - and they may yet be joined by other members of the cast and crew. Or not. Either way, you're going to get to see NIGHTWING in a theater for the first time in (possibly) thirty years.
The dedicated horror geeks in Los Angeles usually snap these tickets up as soon as they go online, so click over to the Nuart's official site and buy yours now. Or wait another twenty years for the fiftieth anniversary screening. Your call.
To help celebrate/promote this event, I'll be posting interviews with Mancuso, Macht and possibly a few others. This is already more publicity than NIGHTWING received when Columbia released it in 1979.
Here's the official press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STARS REUNITE FOR 30th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF ARTHUR HILLER’S 1979 THRILLER “NIGHTWING”
RARE 35MM SCREENING OF FEATURE NEVER AVAILABLE ON DVD
Filmgoers will have the rare opportunity to see Arthur Hiller’s 1979 thriller “Nightwing,” which has never been available on DVD in any region, at a special 30th anniversary screening, taking place at midnight on Friday, February 27th, at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.
Stars Nick Mancuso (“Heartbreakers”) and Stephen Macht (“The Monster Squad”) will reunite for the screening, with additional stars and filmmakers to be announced shortly. Fans can expect a brief introduction, post-show Q&A, and the rare opportunity to personally meet and have mementos signed.
“Nightwing” was released theatrically on June 22, 1979, but found its largest and most appreciative audience in the 80s via the newly-created HBO. Based on the best seller by acclaimed novelist Martin Cruz Smith, the film also starred David Warner (“Time After Time”) and Kathryn Harrold (“Chicago Hope”). Three-time Academy Award winner Henry Mancini composed the haunting score and the evocative cinematography was by Charles Rosher Jr. (Altman’s “3 Women”).
In Northern Arizona’s Painted Desert, a colony of plague-carrying vampire bats settles in a sacred tribal canyon and begins fatally draining the blood from horses, sheep, and missionaries. Combating the vampires are tribal deputy Youngman Duran (Mancuso), tribal chairman Walker Chee (Macht), and bat-killing biologist Phillip Payne (Warner).
WHAT: NIGHTWING screening with stars Nick Mancuso and Stephen Macht in-person.
WHEN: Friday, February 27, 2009 at 12 midnight (one show only)
WHERE: Nuart Theatre 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, just west of the 405 Freeway, West Los Angeles, (310) 281-8223
TICKETS: $10.50 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and children; tickets are available at the theatre box office and online at
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets/
STARS REUNITE FOR 30th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF ARTHUR HILLER’S 1979 THRILLER “NIGHTWING”
RARE 35MM SCREENING OF FEATURE NEVER AVAILABLE ON DVD
Filmgoers will have the rare opportunity to see Arthur Hiller’s 1979 thriller “Nightwing,” which has never been available on DVD in any region, at a special 30th anniversary screening, taking place at midnight on Friday, February 27th, at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.
Stars Nick Mancuso (“Heartbreakers”) and Stephen Macht (“The Monster Squad”) will reunite for the screening, with additional stars and filmmakers to be announced shortly. Fans can expect a brief introduction, post-show Q&A, and the rare opportunity to personally meet and have mementos signed.
“Nightwing” was released theatrically on June 22, 1979, but found its largest and most appreciative audience in the 80s via the newly-created HBO. Based on the best seller by acclaimed novelist Martin Cruz Smith, the film also starred David Warner (“Time After Time”) and Kathryn Harrold (“Chicago Hope”). Three-time Academy Award winner Henry Mancini composed the haunting score and the evocative cinematography was by Charles Rosher Jr. (Altman’s “3 Women”).
In Northern Arizona’s Painted Desert, a colony of plague-carrying vampire bats settles in a sacred tribal canyon and begins fatally draining the blood from horses, sheep, and missionaries. Combating the vampires are tribal deputy Youngman Duran (Mancuso), tribal chairman Walker Chee (Macht), and bat-killing biologist Phillip Payne (Warner).
WHAT: NIGHTWING screening with stars Nick Mancuso and Stephen Macht in-person.
WHEN: Friday, February 27, 2009 at 12 midnight (one show only)
WHERE: Nuart Theatre 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, just west of the 405 Freeway, West Los Angeles, (310) 281-8223
TICKETS: $10.50 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and children; tickets are available at the theatre box office and online at
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets/
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But obviously they wouldn't let Dick Grayson don a costume and actually fight crime until he was 40, at least...
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I really need to stop glancing at the headlines...
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have completely supplanted the Nuart as the premiere art house/revival theatre in Southern California. Plus, they're both cheaper, the ambience is nicer, and you don't have to deal with Mark "Movie Geek" Heuck, projectionist/assistant manager extraordinaire. Honestly, how many times can you screen "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the damn "Goonies"?
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Besides, Nightwing sucks. And you can watch it for free on demand with fearnet.
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...Yeah, it is less expensive, and it does offer a great, diverse lineup. It's also much closer to my apartment. But - as many others before me have complained - those seats are extremely uncomfortable.
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Damn it.
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Wasn't too impressed with the theater or film. Although just 1 block down the street from it, in the direction away from the freeway onramp, there is a really bitching DVD store with a pretty nice catalog of all sorts of movies.
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I'm leaving disappointed.
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Mr. Beaks, PLEASE cover this event! I want pics, interviews, dvd rumors, anything! I saw this film in the theater as a kid and loved it. I have the FOTONOVEL, which I broke out the other night after hearing about this screening and reread it. David Warner was awesome in this film, as kind of the Van Helsing character who lives to hunt and kill vampire bats. He plays the character very similar to the way he plays his character in "The Omen." He's a rogue outsider that nobody likes, but he knows his grim business and he's damn serious about it. The Indian mysticism angle was also interesting, giving the film an added layer of meaning beyond the usual naure-goes-amok genre guidelines. There's also an amazing scene with the three main characters under seige from the bats inside an electrified cage that's sort of like the Richard Dreyfus sharkcage scene in "Jaws." This movie got bad reviews when it was released and has never gotten any respect since, but I remember it as a fun, suspenseful and creepy lovesong to vampire bats and kids who love vampire bats. I don't know why it's been so long since anybody has released it.
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I also saw Mr. Vengeance when it was playing there. I've been a few times since (most recently for King Of Kong), and I'm pretty sure they've upgraded the theater a bit.
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I'm glad folks are excited... but man, it's a dull bore of a film whenever Warner isn't onscreen. And Macht's character simply disappears after an hour.
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...about a week ago through On Demand. Weird coincidence.
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I caught a Radley Metzger festival there in the late '90s, one of my fondest moviegoing memories. Nowadays the film lineups are blah, and someone really should tell Mr. Marc "I'm Too Hip for This Room" Heuck to lighten the eff up. The New Beverly and Cinefamily are indeed where it's at in L.A.
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Feb 25, 2009 8:37:25 AM CST
Can't be that hard to find . . . FearNet has it right now
by wickedjacob
Lets see. Turn on my TV. Hit the ON DEMAND button. Go to "FreeZone" -- yup, there's Nick Mancuso. Eh, big deal.
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but it sure proves how spoiled kids are today. No wonder everything is "meh" to them.
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