• R.I.P. Pete Shelley, former frontman of the Buzzcocks and “Homosapien” hitmaker, age 63
• R.I.P. Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci, director of 1987’s “The Last Emperor” & other epic films
• R.I.P. Nicolas Roeg, director of “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” “Performance” & other great films
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners with Blue Underground to present the best cult, horror & exploitation films
• Lech Kowalski’s “D.O.A.: A Right of Passage” features Sex Pistols U.S. tour footage & more
• Bob Gruen’s behind-the-scenes look at his Ike & Tina Turner music doc “On the Road: 1971-72″
• “The Gumby Show”: America’s Favorite Clayboy is back again on Night Flight!
• “Arise! The SubGenius Movie”: The return of Night Flight’s “Love That “Bob”” episodes!
• Outsider artist & one-man showcase filmmaker Laz Rojas comes to Night Flight Plus!

All posts tagged "heroin"

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  Willing Victim (The Audience as Whipping Boy): A 14-song musical retrospective from Lydia Lunch

  Lydia Lunch‘s Willing Victim is subtitled “The Audience as Whipping Boy,” although Lunch doesn’t really abuse the enraptured crowd who have gathered to watch her perform her fourteen-song musical retrospective, commissioned by “the Festival des Masochismus.” Watch...

  • Posted August 8, 2018
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  Dwain Esper’s cautionary tale “Narcotic” (1933) was a sensationalized, sleazy drug scare cult hit

  Dwain Esper’s cautionary tale Narcotic (1933) was a sensationalized, sleazy drug scare cult hit about drug addiction, and it’s just one great vintage exploitation films we’re offering up on Night Flight Plus in our Something Weird collection....

  • Posted July 24, 2018
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  Lech Kowalski’s “Hey is Dee Dee Home” looks at the life & troubled times of Dee Dee Ramone

  Hey Is Dee Dee Home is an hour-long tribute to Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone by low-budget documentary filmmaker Lech Kowalski, who apparently had so much unused Beta SP footage of the punk rock junkie leftover from...

  • Posted March 22, 2018
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  “Hooked”: Untamed curfew breakers on a crazed binge of sex & drugs!

  Hooked — director/screenwriter/actor Alexander Wells’ first and only feature as a director — is a fairly typical late ’50s starch-collared police procedural that’s been jacked up with exploitative Reefer Madness-style elements of juvenile delinquency and rampant drug...

  • Posted April 6, 2017
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  Feed your head: Lockheed’s unintentionally hilarious anti-drug “case study” films from the late 60s

  In 1969, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation created a series of short and presumably unintentionally hilarious anti-drug propaganda films, which we think were meant for junior high age kids to watch but we have to imagine they might...

  • Posted February 7, 2016
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  “Curious Alice”: The 1971 Lewis Carroll-inspired, government-endorsed anti-drug film is quite a trip

  Author Lewis Carroll first told us about Alice’s journey down the rabbit hole 150 years ago, and since November 1865 marks anniversary of the original publication of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” we thought we’d take a look...

  • Posted November 11, 2015
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