ART SEEN presents CALL HER APPLEBROOG, Beth B’s personal documentary on her mother, artist Ida Applebroog.
Screening before the film will be the new frieze video, Eileen Myles: A Poet in the Art World.
This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (Exposed). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. With her daughter’s encouragement, she investigates the stranger that is her former self, a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art. As Beth B finds a deeper understanding of her mother as a human being, Applebroog shares a newfound appreciation for her own provocative work. –MoMA Doc Fortnight
Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Tim Thomerson
The vampires in Near Dark certainly aren’t your fancy aristocratic elite living in a distant castle. Oh no. Instead they’re a gun-toting gang that roams the American Southwest. This “family” isn’t so into the new guy Caleb who’s been “turned” by the alluring Mae rather than killing him. The fact that Caleb can’t really make a kill or pull his own weight definitely makes matters worse for the group. Still, it’s not easy being undead and so ensues a violent unfolding of action that has made an initially overlooked film into an eternal vampire classic.
A road trip turns into a horrifying fight for survival in Wes Craven’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES.
Nestled between Wes Craven’s rape-revenge Last House on the Left (1972) and his genre-defining A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is his violently gritty The Hills Have Eyes…and it’s a doozy. Here Craven takes the idealized American road trip and turns it into a nightmare as the Carter family encounters an attack by a mutated cannibal family who survive by preying on travelers. This film shows that danger can lurk in every corner, even in amongst the great American landscape. Women, children, dogs, cannibals…no one is here is ever safe.
Justice isn’t a crime in HELL OR HIGH WATER.
Toby is a divorced father who’s trying to make a better life for his son. His brother Tanner is an ex-convict with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that’s about to foreclose on their family ranch. Standing in their way is Marcus, a Texas Ranger who’s only weeks away from retirement. As the siblings plot their final robbery, they must also prepare for a showdown with a crafty lawman who’s not ready to ride off into the sunset.
Equipped with platinum blonde hair and a winning smile, NYC college girl Leah (Homeland’s Morgan Saylor) seeks out pleasure in any form. Between getting high with her roommate and snorting lines with her boss, Leah falls for Blue (Brian Marc), a young man dealing drugs on her corner.
Within days, the two are selling dime bags to her boss (The Hangover’s Justin Bartha) and his downtown friends, collecting fast cash, and living the high life.. But summer love crashes to a halt when Blue is arrested and Leah is left with a ton of his coke. Enlisting the aid of an overpriced lawyer (Chris Noth) Leah finds herself deep in debt and over her head as she pushes all limits get Blue back.
Executive produced by Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry, Kids) and deliriously filmed in and around New York City, White Girl thrashes through an increasingly high-stakes game of hedonism. Unspoken socioeconomic tensions – coupled with a blatant disregard for consequence – ignite in a fearless exploration of race, gender and youth, inspired by the director’s own experiences.
Ride along with two New York cops as they tail heroin suspects in Nitehawk and Four Horsemen’s special Film Feast presentation of THE FRENCH CONNECTION.
A tale of crime, cops, and New York is best served with a glass of wine and french inspired cuisine. Based on a true story, William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning thriller The French Connection follows two New York City detectives Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) as they attempt to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover “The French Connection.” But when one of the criminals tried to kill Doyle, he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city limits.
As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!
MENU
DEAD MAN’S BAGUETTE
sheep’s milk ricotta, black mission figs, jambon de Bayonne, grilled baguette
Wine pairing – Sparkling wine with 1/4oz pastis drizzled on top
FRESH OYSTER
Beau Soleil oysters, “Marseilles” mignonette, fleur de sel
Wine pairing – Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence Beatines Rosé 2015
FOUR STAR LUNCH
cote de boeuf, pomme puree, French onion “soup”, gruyere gratinee
Wine pairing – Chateau Saint Anne Bandol Rouge 2011
DIGESTIF
Armagnac-Tenareze 1988
1970 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
vanilla cupcake, surprise Ferrero Rocher, Nutella buttercream, “heroin” sugar baggie
Wine pairing – Vignioble Alain Ignace Muscat Beaumes de Venise Coeur des Vignes 2014
Menu items subject to change, no substitutions.
A video variety show all about Star Trek.
Comedian Kevin Maher hates being called a Pop Culture expert because there are subjects he knows little about. Like STAR TREK. So for this month’s show he’s going to sit back and let his guests celebrate the many crews and adventures that occurred under the Star Trek banner. The two-hour video variety show will include clips from TV shows, movies, cartoons and comic books.
Featuring:
- Ryan Britt (author of LUKE SKYWALKER CAN’T READ AND OTHER GEEKY TRUTHS)
- Liam McEneaney (comedian from the album WORKING CLASS FANCY)
- M. Sweeney Lawless (writer, Euphobia comedy group)
- Wendy Mays (host of PET CINEMATARY podcast, creator of SPACE CAT)
- Frank Reynolds (editor, TROMEO & JULIET)
- Nathaniel Wharton (SportsAlcohol.com)
Patsy darling, it’s ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
Appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. But when they accidentally push Kate Moss into the river Thames at an uber fashionable launch party, Eddy and Patsy become entangled in a media storm surrounding the supermodel’s untimely demise and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
Go behind the mask with Mexico’s real-life superheroes in LUCHA MEXICO!
In Mexico, the fight between good and evil has been waged every week for decades, thrilling generations of fans with the spectacle of Lucha Libre. Real-life superheroes and villains, these masked wrestlers put their lives on the line night after night to entertain the legions of fans. Gaining remarkable access to all the major Lucha promotions, Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz offer an entertaining, no holds barred look at some of the sport’s top performers, featuring the “1000% Guapo” Shocker, Luchador heir Blue Demon Jr, the tragic hardcore wrestler El Hijo Del Perro Aguayo, and extreme American bodybuilder Jon “Strongman” Andersen. Lucha Mexico goes behind the mask, on a journey into the heart of Mexico.
Fact and fiction collide in Maura Axelrod’s playful profile MAURIZIO CATTELAN: BE RIGHT BACK.
Q&A with director Maura Axelrod following the screening.
An art world upstart, provocative and elusive artist Maurizio Cattelan made his career on playful and subversive works that send up the artistic establishment, until a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011 finally solidified his place in the contemporary art canon. Axelrod’s equally playful profile leaves no stone unturned in trying to figure out: who is Maurizio Cattelan?
Part of Nitehawk’s TRIBECA SUMMER DOC SERIES.
