Category: Q&A’s

On Thursday, November 3, our music-in-film series, Music Driven, invited the great filmmaker Penelope Spheeris to the theater to talk her breakthrough documentary: The Decline of Western Civilization.

On Monday, October 3, 2016, Nitehawk hosted the three stars of one of 2016’s most bizarre, and definitely greasiest, films: THE GREASY STRANGLER

On Friday, September 3, director Elizabeth Wood joined us for the opening night of her debut film WHITE GIRL. Moderated by Filmwax Radio host Adam Schartoff, Wood brought along the film’s principal cast.

On Thursday, July 7, Nitehawk invited Oscar winning director John G. Avildsen back to the theater to talk Cobra Kai and co. with Nitehawk film programmer John Woods.

On Thursday, July 30 Nitehawk’s Music Driven series and Mass Appeal hosted legendary photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber and cinematographer Jeff Preiss

On Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Nitehawk’s Music Driven series and Mass Appeal screened LOS PUNKS, a documentary on the Los Angeles backyard punk scene. The film’s director, Angela Boatright, came out to talk about the film with Nitehawk programmer John Woods, and together the two talked teenage energy, the director’s punk roots, and documenting a culture as an outsider.

For Nitehawk’s fifth anniversary on June 21, we were proud to host one of our favorite directors, Danish genre provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, for a Q&A following his new film THE NEON DEMON.

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, husband and wife filmmaking team of writer/director Riley Stearn & actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead stopped by for Nitehawk for a special screening of their cult-deprogramming film FAULTS.

On Thursday, May 5, 2016, director Tim Hunter joined Nitehawk film programmer John Woods to discuss RIVER’S EDGE following a sold out 35mm screening of the film.