Late Night 2023, Chelsea Theater
Late Night 2023
Late Night Chelsea is back with the best in cult, outré, and midnight movie fare. Programmed exclusively by the unrivaled staff of the Chelsea Theater, these “employee picks” are sure to add some thrills to those long summer nights.
Programmed by Charlie Brownlee, Will McIntosh, and Sam Mueller with assistance from Meghan Bowman/Balcony Booking
Son of the White Mare
Son of the White Mare
(Marcell Jankovics, 1981, 86 min)
Wed May 24, 10:30 pm
One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. A massive cosmic oak stands at the gates of the Underworld, holding seventy-seven dragons in its roots; to combat these monsters, a dazzling white mare goddess gives birth to three heroes – Treeshaker and his brothers – who embark on an epic journey to save the universe. Directed by Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics (famed for his 1974 Oscar-nominated short Sisyphus), Son of the White Mare has been restored in 4K using the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements by Arbelos in collaboration with the Hungarian National Film Institute – Film Archive.
(Marcell Jankovics, 1981, 86 min)
Wed May 24, 10:30 pm
One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. A massive cosmic oak stands at the gates of the Underworld, holding seventy-seven dragons in its roots; to combat these monsters, a dazzling white mare goddess gives birth to three heroes – Treeshaker and his brothers – who embark on an epic journey to save the universe. Directed by Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics (famed for his 1974 Oscar-nominated short Sisyphus), Son of the White Mare has been restored in 4K using the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements by Arbelos in collaboration with the Hungarian National Film Institute – Film Archive.
Son of the White Mare
Son of the White Mare
(Marcell Jankovics, 1981, 86 min)
Wed May 24, 10:30 pm
One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. A massive cosmic oak stands at the gates of the Underworld, holding seventy-seven dragons in its roots; to combat these monsters, a dazzling white mare goddess gives birth to three heroes – Treeshaker and his brothers – who embark on an epic journey to save the universe. Directed by Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics (famed for his 1974 Oscar-nominated short Sisyphus), Son of the White Mare has been restored in 4K using the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements by Arbelos in collaboration with the Hungarian National Film Institute – Film Archive.
MORE / TRAILER(Marcell Jankovics, 1981, 86 min)
Wed May 24, 10:30 pm
One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. A massive cosmic oak stands at the gates of the Underworld, holding seventy-seven dragons in its roots; to combat these monsters, a dazzling white mare goddess gives birth to three heroes – Treeshaker and his brothers – who embark on an epic journey to save the universe. Directed by Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics (famed for his 1974 Oscar-nominated short Sisyphus), Son of the White Mare has been restored in 4K using the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements by Arbelos in collaboration with the Hungarian National Film Institute – Film Archive.
River's Edge
River’s Edge
(Tim Hunter, 1986, 99 min)
Wed June 7, 10:30 pm
Among the 80’s most controversial films, River’s Edge follows an ambivalent group of teens—“spawn of a suburban wasteland” (J. Hoberman)—in a small California town after they learn one of their classmates has murdered his girlfriend. Directed by Tim Hunter, who helmed some of the finest non-Lynch Twin Peaks episodes. Starring Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Ione Skye, and Dennis Hopper, and featuring a punk/metal soundtrack with the Wipers, Agent Orange, and Slayer.
(Tim Hunter, 1986, 99 min)
Wed June 7, 10:30 pm
Among the 80’s most controversial films, River’s Edge follows an ambivalent group of teens—“spawn of a suburban wasteland” (J. Hoberman)—in a small California town after they learn one of their classmates has murdered his girlfriend. Directed by Tim Hunter, who helmed some of the finest non-Lynch Twin Peaks episodes. Starring Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Ione Skye, and Dennis Hopper, and featuring a punk/metal soundtrack with the Wipers, Agent Orange, and Slayer.
River's Edge
River’s Edge
(Tim Hunter, 1986, 99 min)
Wed June 7, 10:30 pm
Among the 80’s most controversial films, River’s Edge follows an ambivalent group of teens—“spawn of a suburban wasteland” (J. Hoberman)—in a small California town after they learn one of their classmates has murdered his girlfriend. Directed by Tim Hunter, who helmed some of the finest non-Lynch Twin Peaks episodes. Starring Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Ione Skye, and Dennis Hopper, and featuring a punk/metal soundtrack with the Wipers, Agent Orange, and Slayer.
MORE / TRAILER(Tim Hunter, 1986, 99 min)
Wed June 7, 10:30 pm
Among the 80’s most controversial films, River’s Edge follows an ambivalent group of teens—“spawn of a suburban wasteland” (J. Hoberman)—in a small California town after they learn one of their classmates has murdered his girlfriend. Directed by Tim Hunter, who helmed some of the finest non-Lynch Twin Peaks episodes. Starring Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Ione Skye, and Dennis Hopper, and featuring a punk/metal soundtrack with the Wipers, Agent Orange, and Slayer.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
(David Lynch, 1992, 135 min)
Wed June 21, 10:30 pm
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.
(David Lynch, 1992, 135 min)
Wed June 21, 10:30 pm
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
(David Lynch, 1992, 135 min)
Wed June 21, 10:30 pm
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.
MORE / TRAILER(David Lynch, 1992, 135 min)
Wed June 21, 10:30 pm
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death.
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
(Masaaki Yuasa, 2017, 93 min)
Wed July 5, 10:30 pm
A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair through the streets of Kyoto’s famed Ponto-Cho party district, drinking middle-aged salarymen under the table when she’s not mixing with barflies, obsessive collectors, and guerilla theater performers, all the while oblivious to the efforts of a fellow student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in a gambit to win her love. A comic fable of fleeting youthful passions, as lived out through one mad, unforgettable night.
(Masaaki Yuasa, 2017, 93 min)
Wed July 5, 10:30 pm
A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair through the streets of Kyoto’s famed Ponto-Cho party district, drinking middle-aged salarymen under the table when she’s not mixing with barflies, obsessive collectors, and guerilla theater performers, all the while oblivious to the efforts of a fellow student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in a gambit to win her love. A comic fable of fleeting youthful passions, as lived out through one mad, unforgettable night.
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
(Masaaki Yuasa, 2017, 93 min)
Wed July 5, 10:30 pm
A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair through the streets of Kyoto’s famed Ponto-Cho party district, drinking middle-aged salarymen under the table when she’s not mixing with barflies, obsessive collectors, and guerilla theater performers, all the while oblivious to the efforts of a fellow student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in a gambit to win her love. A comic fable of fleeting youthful passions, as lived out through one mad, unforgettable night.
MORE / TRAILER(Masaaki Yuasa, 2017, 93 min)
Wed July 5, 10:30 pm
A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair through the streets of Kyoto’s famed Ponto-Cho party district, drinking middle-aged salarymen under the table when she’s not mixing with barflies, obsessive collectors, and guerilla theater performers, all the while oblivious to the efforts of a fellow student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in a gambit to win her love. A comic fable of fleeting youthful passions, as lived out through one mad, unforgettable night.
Belly
Belly
(Hype Williams, 1998, 96 min)
Wed July 19, 10:30 pm
“Fuck a book,” says star DMX, and indeed this is post-verbal filmmaking, with vital plot points rendered in Jamaican patois. Belly opens with a blacklight nightclub stickup set to a capella vocal gymnastics, and director Hype Williams (auteur of shiny-suit-era Bad Boy music videos) doesn't allow a routine frame past the velvet rope in his sui generis, Alizé-and-mushrooms swirl of millennial Manhattan and dancehall reggae.
(Hype Williams, 1998, 96 min)
Wed July 19, 10:30 pm
“Fuck a book,” says star DMX, and indeed this is post-verbal filmmaking, with vital plot points rendered in Jamaican patois. Belly opens with a blacklight nightclub stickup set to a capella vocal gymnastics, and director Hype Williams (auteur of shiny-suit-era Bad Boy music videos) doesn't allow a routine frame past the velvet rope in his sui generis, Alizé-and-mushrooms swirl of millennial Manhattan and dancehall reggae.
Belly
Belly
(Hype Williams, 1998, 96 min)
Wed July 19, 10:30 pm
“Fuck a book,” says star DMX, and indeed this is post-verbal filmmaking, with vital plot points rendered in Jamaican patois. Belly opens with a blacklight nightclub stickup set to a capella vocal gymnastics, and director Hype Williams (auteur of shiny-suit-era Bad Boy music videos) doesn't allow a routine frame past the velvet rope in his sui generis, Alizé-and-mushrooms swirl of millennial Manhattan and dancehall reggae.
MORE / TRAILER(Hype Williams, 1998, 96 min)
Wed July 19, 10:30 pm
“Fuck a book,” says star DMX, and indeed this is post-verbal filmmaking, with vital plot points rendered in Jamaican patois. Belly opens with a blacklight nightclub stickup set to a capella vocal gymnastics, and director Hype Williams (auteur of shiny-suit-era Bad Boy music videos) doesn't allow a routine frame past the velvet rope in his sui generis, Alizé-and-mushrooms swirl of millennial Manhattan and dancehall reggae.
Double Team
Double Team
(Hark Tsui, 1997, 91 min)
Wed Aug 2, 10:30 pm
An international spy (Jean-Claude Van Damme) teams up with a flamboyant weapons dealer (Dennis Rodman) to escape from a penal colony and save his family. Screen Slate: “one of the more colorful, strange, and unclassifiable Hollywood action films of the 90s.”
(Hark Tsui, 1997, 91 min)
Wed Aug 2, 10:30 pm
An international spy (Jean-Claude Van Damme) teams up with a flamboyant weapons dealer (Dennis Rodman) to escape from a penal colony and save his family. Screen Slate: “one of the more colorful, strange, and unclassifiable Hollywood action films of the 90s.”
Double Team
Double Team
(Hark Tsui, 1997, 91 min)
Wed Aug 2, 10:30 pm
An international spy (Jean-Claude Van Damme) teams up with a flamboyant weapons dealer (Dennis Rodman) to escape from a penal colony and save his family. Screen Slate: “one of the more colorful, strange, and unclassifiable Hollywood action films of the 90s.”
MORE / TRAILER(Hark Tsui, 1997, 91 min)
Wed Aug 2, 10:30 pm
An international spy (Jean-Claude Van Damme) teams up with a flamboyant weapons dealer (Dennis Rodman) to escape from a penal colony and save his family. Screen Slate: “one of the more colorful, strange, and unclassifiable Hollywood action films of the 90s.”
Southland Tales
Southland Tales
(Richard Kelly, 2007, 145 min)
Wed Aug 16, 10:30 pm
Donnie Darko’s Richard Kelly follows up his cerebral cult-classic with a bonkers, satirical, go-for-broke alternative (some would say prescient) imagining of a fractured US amidst political and social chaos. The only hope for survival: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean William Scott, and The Rock.
(Richard Kelly, 2007, 145 min)
Wed Aug 16, 10:30 pm
Donnie Darko’s Richard Kelly follows up his cerebral cult-classic with a bonkers, satirical, go-for-broke alternative (some would say prescient) imagining of a fractured US amidst political and social chaos. The only hope for survival: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean William Scott, and The Rock.
Southland Tales
Southland Tales
(Richard Kelly, 2007, 145 min)
Wed Aug 16, 10:30 pm
Donnie Darko’s Richard Kelly follows up his cerebral cult-classic with a bonkers, satirical, go-for-broke alternative (some would say prescient) imagining of a fractured US amidst political and social chaos. The only hope for survival: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean William Scott, and The Rock.
MORE / TRAILER(Richard Kelly, 2007, 145 min)
Wed Aug 16, 10:30 pm
Donnie Darko’s Richard Kelly follows up his cerebral cult-classic with a bonkers, satirical, go-for-broke alternative (some would say prescient) imagining of a fractured US amidst political and social chaos. The only hope for survival: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean William Scott, and The Rock.
Blade
Blade
(Stephen Norrington, 1998, 126 min)
Wed Aug 30, 10:30 pm
When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an evil vampire rebel (Deacon Frost) who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect voracious blood god La Magra.
(Stephen Norrington, 1998, 126 min)
Wed Aug 30, 10:30 pm
When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an evil vampire rebel (Deacon Frost) who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect voracious blood god La Magra.
Blade
Blade
(Stephen Norrington, 1998, 126 min)
Wed Aug 30, 10:30 pm
When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an evil vampire rebel (Deacon Frost) who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect voracious blood god La Magra.
MORE / TRAILER(Stephen Norrington, 1998, 126 min)
Wed Aug 30, 10:30 pm
When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an evil vampire rebel (Deacon Frost) who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect voracious blood god La Magra.