• 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 "John Lennon"

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  Night Flight on IFC: Episode 17!

  “Night Flight” was the most radically fun, nostalgically cranium-bursting cable TV program of all time, originally airing in the ’80s (and syndicated shows aired during the ’90s) during the wee hours on Fridays and Saturdays on the...

  • Posted November 30, 2018
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  “Song for a Future Generation”: Athens, GA’s the B-52s were the South’s first new wave band

  In 1985, Night Flight packed up the van in NYC and headed south on Interstate 81 for our somewhat misleadingly titled “Take Off to Southern Rock,” which was actually a geographic-based music video travelogue of ’80s rock...

  • Posted October 23, 2018
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  I hope we live to tell the tale: Tears for Fears’ “Shout” & Arthur Janov’s Primal Scream Therapy

  In this two-hour block of “Night Flight” from 1985, “Night Flight: Visions” took a virtual trip “Around the World,” checking in at destinations around the globe, some of them quite exotic and far-flung, but like a lot...

  • Posted October 11, 2018
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  Going Off Piste: “Going Underground: McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter-Culture”

  Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter-Culture — now streaming on Night Flight Plus — explores the impact of the mid-to-late ’60s British counterculture scene on the Beatles, and on Paul McCartney in particular....

  • Posted May 31, 2018
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  “All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music”: Tony Palmer’s 17-part UK TV docu-series

  If you’ve been watching the snack-size “Night Flight Highlights” episodes we’ve been airing on the IFC channel every Friday night since April 20th, you may have seen excerpts from Tony Palmer’s ambitious All You Need Is Love:...

  • Posted May 22, 2018
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  “Sie liebt dich, ja ja ja”: Spencer Leigh’s “The Beatles – Hamburg & the Hamburg Sound”

  In The Beatles – Hamburg & the Hamburg Sound, celebrated British deejay and music biographer Spencer Leigh gives viewers a two-and-a-half hour guided walking tour of Hamburg, a seaport city in northern Germany some five hundred miles...

  • Posted May 14, 2018
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  “If They Move… Film ‘Em”: In 1984, Sam Peckinpah directed Julian Lennon’s “Valotte”

  In Night Flight’s “Visions of Platinum: Part 1,” which originally aired on June 12, 1985, record producer Phil Ramone told us about working with Julian Lennon, whose “Valotte” music video was, somewhat surprisingly, directed by the legendary...

  • Posted December 29, 2017
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  “The Concise John Lennon’s New York”: A Magical History Tour of Lennon’s Big Apple

  If you’ve never been to New York City, and would like to see some of the Big Apple’s sights that will be forever associated with John Lennon and the Beatles, have a look at The Concise John...

  • Posted September 8, 2017
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