Citizen Kane this Weekend at Midnight in the L.E.S.

In 1941 Orson Welles made his first feature film now considered by most as the greatest film ever made. The year this came out it was nominated for nine Academy Awards but failed to recoup its costs at the box office. The screenplay did win the Oscar for Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. Welles and RKO started a war because of "Kane" that would have a big effect on Welles and his Directing career. Forced to quickly finish films that the studio then added "happy endings" to without Welles consent lead to box office failure and little Directing jobs for Welles. His radio and acting careers did continue. Citizen Kane is a story of Charles Foster Kane a newspaper man with a large ego, a character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. This great story is told through flashbacks that start and end with the elusive "Rosebud." When Welles was again given the Directors chair he made some more stand out films including "The Lady from Shanghai" '47 and "Touch of Evil" '58. Did Welles make his best film first? How does the story of the power hungry, motivated, obsessed Charles Foster Kane help tell the story of Orson Welles? Who or what was "Rosebud" to these two men one real and one fiction? Go down to the Sunshine Cinema this weekend at midnight and see if you can unravel the mystery.

This Weekend Groundhog Day at Midnight!

Have you ever gotten out on the wrong side of the bed? Said some things to people you should not have because your grumpy? Well what if you could start the day over again? And over and over..in this comedy Bill Murray is stuck in a Small town and wakes up to find he must start the yesterday all over again. With Andie MacDowell as his cheerful producer and Chris Elliott as his smart-aleck cameraman, Murray is at his best in this Romantic Comedy about a weatherman stuck in a day he could never predict. Groundhog Day is one of our favorites here at the Sunshine. So come down at midnight and watch all the fun!

New Run Of Midnights for the Summer!

The new run of Midnights has hit the street and it's going to be a great Summer. Come Downtown on the hot Sweaty nights for the best in Contemporary Classics, Horror and Cult! We Got Tim Burton's Beetlejuice starting out the run on May 18Th & 19Th. Beetlejuice is one of our Favorites here at the Shine! Don't be surprised if the whole house starts dancing to "Jump in Line" at the end of the film. Then we have a Double Midnight the last weekend of May with 3 nights on Raiders of the Lost Ark. This film sells out so get your tickets in advance! And in Memory of the late Levon Helms the Sunshine is playing the Last Waltz. Directed by Scorsese this is the last time the Band played on stage together and is a film that shows how great American Music can be. So come down and pay last respects to Levon Rock & Roll's favorite singing drummer with us 3 nights May 25Th- 27Th. Then get ready to be on the edge of your seat with Wes Craven's first thriller The Last House on the Left. This is a horror film for the ages with all the things we lo from 70's bloodbaths.. sex, escape criminals and lots of death! The week after this shocking display is a funny movie from a funny man, Ben Stiller's Zoolander. The Sunshine has some Special Guest for this one so be ready to laugh you ass off! Then Horror takes over the midnights for two weeks starting with the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby, written and directed by Roman Polanski. Then another one of Was Craven's best the original Freddy fright Fest, A Nightmare on Elm Street! You will not want to sleep for weeks. That all good we got more Midnights to keep you from your bed. The Marx Brothers 1933 comedy classic Duck Soup was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the US Library of Congress, so its got to be a masterpiece of sight gags and funny falls. It is also the last of the Marx films with Zeppo. So come into the cinema and laugh off the June humidity in our cool theater. Then if you think the Marx Brothers where funny get a load of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on the big screen! Yes Khan was Kirks best bad guy. Look for these Quotes: "Listen, kiddo, Jim Kirk was many things, but he was never a Boy Scout," "You proceed from a false assumption. I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise," "Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? ... It is very cold in space," "KHAAANNNN!!" Yes find out what happened to Kirk before he was a Simpson joke, T.V. Commercial and Broadway show in this Star Trek when the past comes back! Oh and don't forget the worst movie ever made The Room! have you fun with Lisa the first Saturday of ever month! Just remember to bring PLASTIC Spoons!

May 18 & 19: Beetlejuice, put some life in your afterlife!
May 25, 26 & 27: Raiders of the Lost Ark, 3 nights! Directed by Steven Spielberg.
May 25, 26 & 27: The Last Waltz, 3 nights! The legendary concert!
Jun 1 & 2: The Last House on the Left, Wes Craven's 1972 thriller!
Sat, Jun 2: The Room, "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"
Jun 8 & 9: Zoolander, a film by Ben Stiller. Special guests in person!
Jun 15 & 16: Rosemary's Baby, starring Mia Farrow.
Jun 22 & 23: A Nightmare on Elm Street, the 1984 original! Sleep kills!
Jun 29 & 30: Duck Soup, starring the four Marx Brothers!
Jul 6 & 7: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, starring Ricardo Montalban.
Sat, Jul 7: The Room, can you trust anyone?

Beetlejuice trailer (1988)

The Ghost with the most!! This weekend at midnight!! Come Downtown for all the fun and giveaways with "Beetlejuice" one of Tim Burton's best!

Original 1987 Trailer for Robocop

Big Crowd Last Night for Robocop!

Last night's showing of Robocop on the big screen filled up nicely. And as the people took their seats the Sunshine had a raffle for a gift from Kim's Video. What will get raffled off tonight?

Come out for the one that started it all! Evil Dead!

It is that time of year again and we are ready! Ready for the sunny days of summer? No we are ready to fight off the evil demons that want to walk the earth in your body. We might not have chainsaws for arms or blue button down shirts, but we are ready with giveaway's and horror fun in Downtown NYC! This is where it all started the first film of this ongoing franchise. The first eye-popping film that was directed by Sam Raimi and made Bruce Campbell a house hold name is back at the Sunshine Cinema! Inspired by 70's drive-in movies this film was to keep a certain group of fans happy and it has for over 30 Years. Campbell has been quoted, "Keep the pace fast and furious, and once the horror starts, never let up. The first primary investor stated, "Fellas, no matter what, just keep the blood running. What a time to live and make horror films! So come out and see the one that started it all "Evil Dead" at midnight! Wait I think we do have a chainsaw around here somewhere?

Check out the dirt the fans dug up on the new Evil Dead in 2013 on..

http://www.deadites.net/

Evil Dead II: Sunshine Style

Fun With the Super Mario Bros. at Midnight!

The Super Mario Bros. is a film that never needed to be made, but we are all happy it was! This film is based on the 1985 Nintendo game that has two brothers that have to save a Princess. In the film the Bros. played by Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo are being pushed out of their plumber business by some gangsters in Brooklyn. They meet Daisy right before she is taken into an inter-dimensional portal. In this strange world a race has evolved from Dinosaurs. This is all in the video game right? Well how else do you explain things like turning people into fungus and plumbers saving the world? The best part is that Dennis Hopper plays the big bad King Koopa. Like all cult films worth watching this one bombed at the box office. Is it so bad that it's good? Or is it just something one has to see to believe? Either way this weekend New York gets a chance to find out. We hope that Brooklyn will come Downtown and represent!!

One More Hot Night in NYC with Marilyn Monroe!

There is one more chance to make the Big Apple Hot tonight at Midnight. Marilyn Monroe is sizzling in this screwball comedy from 1959. Some Like It Hot is one of director Billy Wilder's funniest films with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon trading slacks for skirts to save their skins from Chicago Gangsters. In this story some down and out Jazz players find themselves running from gun men and dress in drag to get away. And away they go to sunny Florida with an all girl band and our favorite blond as the singer. This is were Monroe shines as the sexy stage singer who has been let down by men all her life. She has gotten the "fuzzy end of the lollipop" from more then one Jazz man and is now with this all girl band to "Run Away." Will she find out that her "Brand-new" girl friends are more then they seem? What really happens when men take on heels and see how the other half lives? NYC has one more night to find out with this funny runaway Comedy from one of Hollywood's greatest directors.

List of Wilder films:

http://www.listal.com/list/billy-wilder-filmsmovies

Sid and Nancy Tonight and Tomorrow at Midnight!

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen fell in love in London and went to New York. Here in the Big Apple they both died. One by Drugs and the other? This is a story that can only come from the 70's and be told in the 80's with film. This film had Courtney Love begging for the part of Nancy and Gary Oldman starving himself to play Sid. Director Alex Cox made this film to tell the story but not the truth. This is because no one really knows the truth behind the stabbing of Nancy in the Chelsea Hotel, or the life that these lovers lived together. Can true love kill? There were a lot of strange things about the production of this film. One that Love did not get the Nancy part, but had a part written in to the script for her. Also that Sid's mum did not like the film until she became part of the team. Then, get this, all of Guns & Roses were asked to be extras. They did not know this fact till they were on set saying "'Hey...what are you doing here?'" Does this make for a bad movie..? Hell no it's great! This film has everything! True Love, Music Superstars, Sex and Drugs what else does one expect from the 70's. So get off your couch, chair or bar stool and get into the theater to see Sid and Nancy. Can true love Kill?

"Do the Right Thing" A Spike Lee Joint

Spike Lee Directed, Produced, Wrote and Starred in this film that defined not just what a "Spike Lee Joint" was, but also what Brooklyn was like in the 80's. In 1989 this film showed the whole world that a street corner in Bedford-Stuyvesant is like a movie. It has it's cast of characters with New York Personalities and New York problems. Ten years later the U.S. Library of Congress deemed Do The Right Thing, "culturally significant" and it was the first of its kind selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Not Bad for a little corner in Brooklyn. The film even got some Oscar nominations for Lee. One for the Best Original Screenplay and one for the Best Supporting Actor for Danny Aiello's pizzeria owner. Spike Lee became a house hold name with the help of his first films. He was established as a quadruple threat. A new talent that can Write, Direct, Star and even Produce films that have their own look and style. He came out with so many that every year the public had another Spike Lee Joint. Come down this weekend and celebrate this film, and one of New York's best Directors at the Sunshine Cinema at midnight.

Spike Lee Joint's:
2008 Passing Strange Director
2008 Miracle at St. Anna Producer-Director
2006 Inside Man Director
2006 When the Levees Broke Director-Producer
2004 She Hate Me Screenwriter-Director-Producer
2004 Sucker Free City Director
2002 25Th Hour Director-Producer
2002 Jim Brown: All-American Producer-Director
2001 3 A.M. Actor-Producer
2000 Bamboozled Producer-Screenwriter-Director
2000 Love and Basketball Producer
2000 The Original Kings of Comedy Director
1999 Summer of Sam Screenwriter-Actor-Director
1998 Freak Director
1998 He Got Game Director-Screenwriter
1997 4 Little Girls Director-Producer
1996 Girl 6 Producer-Actor-Director
1996 Get on the Bus Director
1995 Clockers Director-Actor
1994 Crooklyn Actor-Screenwriter-Director
1994 Hoop Dreams Himself (Film director)
1992 Malcolm X Actor-Director
1991 Jungle Fever Actor-Director
1990 Mo' Better Blues Actor-Director
1989 Do the Right Thing Director-Actor-Screenwriter-Producer
1988 School Daze Actor-Director
1986 She's Gotta Have It Screenwriter-Director-Actor
1983 Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads Director

House the 1977 Horror that Became Cult!!

We all know that the 70's was the decade of Horror! The Horror movies of this time, were the strangest and most unique. This was the time of true Horror classics like The Shinging, Carrie, and Amityville Horror. This was also the time when Cult came alive with help from Roger Corman and other Directors. Here is a chance for New Yorkers to celebrate the Horror-Cult phenomenon of the 70's with House! Yes, this Japanese Cult Classic, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi is what everyone loves about this time. This is full of young girls, fake blood and crazy evil madmen! Come down into the home of Cult film at Midnight and see House this weekend!

Alice in Wonderland XXX: An Musical Comedy

Get ready to go to sexual wonderland late night this week at the Sunshine Cinemas. Yes you too can follow the white rabbit downtown to another Midnight Movie on Houston. This Musical Comedy has many of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Characters and a lot more Sex!! This is what Midnights are made for 70's Porn on the big screen. Yes this is a "Classic" Porn from 1776 and has been only watched on bad VHS until last year when they Re-released it on DVD. Can one really enjoy a 70's skin flick at home? Why not go all out and come in to the theater this weekend and catch Alice with her rabbit.

Is one weekend of flesh not good enough? We some of our downtown friends are bringing the city more XXX with FLESHPOT FRIDAYS - The second Friday of every month at Spectacle Theater.
Showcasing classic vintage, contemporary, and experimental XXX.




http://spectacletheater.com/fleshpot-fanny-presents-xxxperiments

Breakfast at Tiffany's this Weekend!!

This 60's romantic comedy is one of Audrey Hepburn's most memorable roles. She plays this happy go lucky party girl with a heart of Gold with class. This film directed by Blake Edwards is based on a short novel by no other then Truman Capote. What else can you ask for in a fun, corky 60's New york film. Yes this is a New York movie through and though. Its got Cabs, the Central Park, 4 floor walk up and Tiffany's! The Sunshine at Midnight is having a meet-up before hand with free Popcorn and Soda in the second floor Lobby! Just show up early to mingle with New York film heads like the party's at Holly's apartment! There will be fun stuff and Giveaways!!

Mulholland Drive -March 9th & 10th Midnight-

This strange film from 2001 was not going to be a film at all. David Lynch wrote this "plot" as a Television show for ABC. Only to use it latter in this way. The final film turns out is so strange that has got to be a Classic. Lets just say that it would have made one hell of a TV Show. "Mulholland Dr." gave Lynch the Best Director Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and had an Oscar Nomination. The Oscar went to Ron Howard for "A Beautiful Mind." Maybe this film was a bit too much for some of the Academy. Most of his fans would point to the film when they are talking about the "Lynch" style of film making. So if you don't know then come and check it out. The Sunshine at Midnight crew have some giveaways and fun stuff going down. Midnight Movies that's what we are all about. This weekend come downtown and enter the world of David Lynch.

Online Friends of the Midnights!!

Its seems like we are all over the internet. Check out some of these spots Online..

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More coming soon....

Sunshine At Midnight!

The City that Never Sleeps has a place to go every weekend. The Sunshine has been and always will be the place in the LES to go at Midnight for our favorite Cult, Horror, and Classic Films. Never been downtown for a Midnight? Well your in for a surprise! The Sunshine go out of their way to make sure everyone is having a good time. One never knows what will happen. Will there be a prize, a special guest, some crazy people dressed up. This is what makes the a Midnight at the Sunshine not just another night at the movies.