This is tonight and there’s no way I’m gonna make it but I wish I could have:
Night Flight: Born Again with Producer Stuart Shapiro in person for post-screening Q&A
Premiering on the fledgling USA Network on June 5, 1981—two months before MTV’s arrival—Night Flight was a glorious amalgamation of music videos, short films, cartoons, interviews, concerts and cult movies. For many viewers, it was a video primer to the counterculture of the Reagan era, featuring artists and films that at the time could not be seen anywhere else and for seven years, Night Flight was required viewing for stoners, punkers, headbangers and insomniacs.
Now, 20 years after the final episode was aired, the show’s producers have gone back into their video vaults and emerged with this “Best Of” program, featuring original interviews with Lou Reed, Divine and Ozzy Osbourne, among many others.
