Events in Late Night: Bangkok Dangerous: The Cinema of Nicolas Cage

Valley Girl

Martha Coolidge

"She’s cool. He’s hot. She’s from the Valley. He’s not." With his shuffling gait and drawling delivery, Nicolas Cage makes the most of his first starring role as a Hollywood punk who plays unlikely Romeo to a socially out-of-his-league Valley girl.

• Saturday January 28
  10:00 PM
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The Rock

Michael Bay

A nerdy FBI chemist (Nicolas Cage) reluctantly teams with an aged ex-spy (Sean Connery) to face down an army of renegade Marines who have taken over Alcatraz in this megahit action opus by auteur savant Michael Bay.

• Saturday February 4
  10:00 PM
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Wild at Heart

David Lynch

Nicolas Cage closed out his offbeat cult-movie period with a bang as the Elvis-channelling, snakeskin-jacketed ex-con Sailor Ripley, who hits the road with mini-skirted Southern belle Lula Fortune (Laura Dern) in David Lynch’s hyperviolent, postmodern ode to youthful rebellion and unbridled romance.

• Saturday February 11
  10:00 PM
  120211TBLB32200 (ER)

Con Air

Simon West

Sporting rippling muscles, soiled undershirt and cornpone hillbilly accent, Nicolas Cage is a wrongly jailed ex-Army Ranger whose upcoming parole gets thrown off course when a criminal mastermind (John Malkovich) hijacks a heavily armoured prison transport plane. John Cusack, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, Dave Chappelle and Steve Buscemi co-star in this absurdly entertaining action flick.

• Saturday February 18
  10:00 PM
  120218TBLB32200 (ER)

Raising Arizona

Joel Coen

Nicolas Cage gives one of his signature performances as the affable, loquacious, philosophical ex-con Herbert I. "Hi" McDunnough, who gets embroiled in a wild baby-kidnapping plot along with his ex-cop wife (Holly Hunter) in Joel and Ethan Coen’s cracked comedy.

• Saturday February 25
  10:00 PM
  120225TBLB32200 (TA)

Face/Off

John Woo

Nicolas Cage and John Travolta have the best of both worlds as a preening super-criminal and an obsessed FBI agent who switch identities — and faces — in Hong Kong action auteur John Woo's super-high concept thriller.

• Saturday March 3
  10:00 PM
  120303TBLB32200 (ER)

The Wicker Man

Neil LaBute

Nicolas Cage berates schoolchildren, dresses like a bear and punches women in the face in this surreally awful remake of the British horror classic. One of the true turkeys of the ’00s — and on no account to be missed!

• Saturday March 10
  10:00 PM
  120310TBLB32200 (TA)

Snake Eyes

Brian De Palma

Nicolas Cage aims for the rafters in Brian De Palma’s show-offy thriller about a cheerfully corrupt cop who stumbles across a conspiracy following a political assassination at a boxing match.

• Saturday March 17
  10:00 PM
  120317TBLB32200 (TA)

Adaptation

Spike Jonze

Charlie Kaufman, the acclaimed screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, turned his real-life bout with writer's block into this dazzling hall-of-mirrors concoction that mixes fact and outrageous fantasy. Nicolas Cage giving two bravura performances as the tortured Charlie and his heedlessly extroverted twin brother, with brilliant support from Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper.

• Saturday March 24
  10:00 PM
  120324TBLB32200 (TA)

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans

Werner Herzog

Nicolas Cage stars as a hard-living Big Easy cop in Werner Herzog's hilariously cheeky take on the standard sin-and-redemption tale, which might just be one of the best (and most entertaining) American films of the last decade.

• Saturday March 31
  10:00 PM
  120331TBLB32200 (TA)

Vampire's Kiss

Robert Bierman

Nicolas Cage gives an awe-inspiringly manic performance as a nasty NYC literary agent who is turning into a vampire (or is he?) in this edgy black comedy from the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours.

• Saturday April 7
  10:00 PM
  120407TBLB32200 (TA)