The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko, Ruslan & Ludmila was a glorious and magical summation of his career. The 2-1/2 hour film based on an epic fairy tale written in 1820 by Alexander Pushkin is filled with the sweeping lyricism, bejeweled visual F/X and mythic storytelling that put him on par with Walt Disney, Ray Harryhausen and Mario Bava. The film opens with the seemingly-joyous marriage of bogatyr (warrior) Ruslan to Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir. On their wedding night, Ludmila is spirited away by the riotously long-bearded wizard Chernomor (Vladimir Fyodorov), and taken to his sinister palace where she’s held prisoner.

Finnish director Risto Jarva’s fascinating, futuristic sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN. A historian of late 20th century culture - “before class boundaries were abolished” – named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances. Raimo finds Saara’s identical double – an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Vepsä) -- and tries to convince her to re-enact Saara’s life and death for TV.

Director Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake is both a love story and a ghost story. During a lakeside vacation, a shy teenager experiences the joy and pain of first love when he forms a bond with an older girl. Falcon Lake was a selection of the 2022 Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public.

NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS EXCLUSIVE: A mysterious egg contains an impish creature who can grant great power, for good or evil. Brendan Bean, a kindly family man, finds himself face to face with the bizarre creature, and before long a friendship for the ages develops. Meanwhile, the depraved Benny Piazza leads his deranged militia on a violent quest to reclaim the magical homunculus. "I knew that whatever home our DIY mutant of a film Hoagie found for its streaming premiere would need to be unique. Its members would have to be eclectic, genre-literate, adventurous and hopefully a little demented. And so here we are, and what better place to be than the hallowed halls of Night Flight? Thanks so much for having us, I hope you have a blast with our disgusting, ridiculous, squishy creation." —Matt Hewitt, co-writer & director of Hoagie

In this new Short Cut arrival, Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley trade jokes about Hollywood and growing up as KISS heads. They reminisce about the first time hearing Metallica and touring with Iggy Pop. An essential snapshot of the Seattle band.

Shozin Fukui’s live-action, underground cyberpunk masterpiece depicts the nightmarish journey of a discarded cybernetic sex android that is expelled from a brothel and left to fend for himself. Aimlessly wandering around the city, Pinocchio meets Kyoto, an amnesiac homeless girl with a horrible secret of her own. Together, they try to piece together their past lives and survive in a cruel, brutal hellscape. At the same time, Pinocchio’s fiendish creators search desperately to find their lost prototype android before the public and authorities discover him! As agents pursue Pinocchio, his frantic escape morphs into a mind-warping hallucinogenic thrill ride! Be prepared! Shozin Fukui’s masterful direction provides the viewer with a totally unique experience along the lines of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Jim and Johnny, two starving rock musicians, are on the run from the Mexican mafia. They hitchhike across the United States, just escaping their assailants, and travel to New York City’s East Village art community where they find other outsiders of society: a prostitute with a heart of gold, a mysterious beautiful woman who wants to stop them, and an ex girlfriend from hell who wants to destroy them. They encounter a magical goddess who helps them escape to a world of musical freedom and imagination. Their fantasy of being rock stars comes to life, but they wake up to find themselves on a highway to hell, with heavy karma coming back to them. Featuring cultural icons Quentin Crisp, Lilly of the Valley, singer-songwriter/visual artist Caron Bernstein, and the all-girl heavy metal rock band The Cycle Sluts from Hell.

"Why search the sand for answers? It has told us everything," whispers Roseline, the 173-year old desert nomad narrator of French director Jean-François Laguionie's hauntingly poetic animated feature of life after the apocalypse. Into this desolate science-fiction landscape (part-Dune, part-Fury Road) emerges the story's teenage heroine, Gwen, who refuses to hide in the shadows. A sublime and breathtaking masterpiece of world animation, Gwen... evokes Night Flight-favorite René Laloux's Fantastic Planet as a visually stunning and truly otherworldly experience.

Blood and guts are the ultimate weapon! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the engineers. These genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a combat form. Ruka, the daughter of a murdered police officer, is now the top engineer hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency, she cuts and slashes her way the crime world and tracks down their lair, a bizarre fetish club. But nothing can sway Ruka from fulfilling her sworn duty and avenging her father’s death!

"Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories)" explores the rich history, cultural significance and otherworldly occurrences of the famous Hotel Chelsea in New York City. The hotel gets its due in this smart and creative film as a place where anything could happen, where creativity thrived and where people from all walks of life came together in a chaotic and vibrant community. Thanks to its dedicated owners, the late Stanley Bard and his son David, the creative spirit of the Chelsea was fostered making it the unique creative haven that it became. The film features interviews with past and present residents, including artists, musicians, writers, and other creative individuals. Some famous faces tell tales of their time in the hotel along with the riveting stories from the eclectic folks who still reside in this legendary and haunted building.

The dinos are back with Nonsense: Volume 3, and this time we pulled out all the stops! It’s got everything you could possibly want from a Dinosaur Dinner Theatre compilation: clips about washing machines, bicycles, bowling… SHOES, even! Sometimes there is talking, and there is nearly always something on the screen to look at! If you’ve got a short attention span and are generous about what you consider to be comedy, this is the collection for you.

After his seminal novel Trainspotting was published in 1993, the debut work of Irvine Welsh quickly became a cultural phenomenon, spawning theatre productions, the iconic film by Danny Boyle, sequels, and soon a stage musical. In Beyond Trainspotting, Welsh himself looks back on his beginnings - and glances off some personal tragedies he experienced along the way from his birth in a tenement building in Leith in 1958 to global success as an author. Guest appearances include producer Andrew Macdonald, Creation Records' Alan McGee and Iggy Pop alongside Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge, Star Wars' Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Brit-pop names such as Lisa Moorish, Kirsty Allison and members of the band Primal Scream.

Night Flight Supercut Feature #1 (2025) an epic supercut of vintage chaos and cable-era insanity which premiered last month at Nitehawk as part of the Third Annual Music Video Festival. From Night Flight creator and CEO Stuart S. Shapiro: "Mash-ups and quick-cut juxtapositions have always been part of Night Flight’s DNA, it's something Stuart Samuels and I leaned into from the very beginning! With Night Flight Supercut #1, our editor John Mark Lapham takes that tradition to a new level. It’s a form we’ll continue to revisit and evolve, and we’re really proud to be creating something this special."

Ralph, a mourning detective, discovers an unwelcome lump and an equally unwelcome partner, Xavier. The investigator contends with Xavier's exuberance as they navigate a partnership between unlikely cases, themselves and a lump.

Hollywood 90028 shows the dark side of the L.A. dream in the bleak and downbeat story of an aspiring movie cameraman turned serial murderer. Written and directed by esteemed experimental filmmaker Christina Hornisher, and beautifully captured through the lens of camera operator Jean-Pierre Geuens, Hollywood 90028 offers a vivid time capsule of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Subotnick is a revealing documentary portrait of seminal electronic music pioneer, Morton Subotnick -- recounting his early years as a fine-art composer & key figure in the '60s avant-garde, while exploring his newly acquired status as "founding father of electronica." Through personal recollections, live performances, and archival films & images, the film traces the exceptional existence of the composer of Silver Apples of the Moon.

Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the ‘60s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.

Willem Dafoe made his unforgettable movie debut as the leader of a '50s biker gang lost in a world of black leather, bad girls, and sudden violence in the independent hit that marked the arrival of Kathryn Bigelow, one of modern cinema’s essential directors. Rockabilly icon Robert Gordon co-stars in this evocative drama co-written and co-directed by Bigelow (NEAR DARK and POINT BREAK) and Monty Montgomery (producer of WILD AT HEART and TWIN PEAKS) with a killer soundtrack featuring original music by Gordon and John Lurie.