Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a screening of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING in celebration of Matt Zoller Seitz’s book, MAD MEN CAROUSEL, published by Abrams Books.
A panel discussion with leading television critics Matt Zoller Seitz (author of Mad Men Carousel), Alan Sepinwall (author of The Revolution was Televised), and Emily Nussbaum (TV Critic at The New Yorker) will follow the film. We’ll also have copies of Mad Men Carousel for sale and an inspired Mad Men cocktail!
Before Sex in the City or Mad Men, there was Rona Jaffe’s book, The Best of Everything. Unsurprisingly, Jaffe’s story of three ambitious career girls who share a small apartment and a secretarial jobs at a publishing house on Madison Avenue quickly made its way onto the big screen. Gregg (the actress), April (single and pregnant), and Caroline (a budding editor) all contend with the conflict of professional goals versus marriage/children expectations. In what can be seen as a comparison to Mad Men’s Peggy, Caroline works her way up to be an editor even though she has to deal with boss Amanda Farrow (played to perfection by Joan Crawford). And just like Mad Men, there’s a lot of booze, sex, and ambition. Scandalous!
The Best of Everything was featured in the Mad Men episode What Do Women Want (Season 1/Episode 6).
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a screening of ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN feating a Q&A with director and composer, Adam Green!
In this retelling of the classic tale, Aladdin is an out of work indie-rock singer living in a video-game-world ruled by a perverted technology-obsessed Sultan. With the help of a magical genie named Mustafa and his 3D printer lamp, Aladdin gets lost and found again in a story about spiritual redemption in the internet age.
A story about virtually everything: CREATIVE CONTROL.
The setting is New York, 5 minutes in the future. The glorious technological advances and communication devices of the near future meant to increase connectivity and alleviate boredom are only increasing the anxiety level of the insecure New Yorkers who’ve inherited them. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising executive developing a high-profile marketing campaign, featuring musician/comedian Reggie Watts, for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Feeling stuck in his relationship with yoga teacher Juliette, he envies the charmed life of his best friend, fashion photographer Wim and his entrancing girlfriend Sophie – so he uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her. Unwittingly, fantasy and reality begin to blur. As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, the friends are forced to deal with the impending collision between their public, private and imaginary lives.
When reporter, Kim Baker’s life needs something more, she decides to “shake it all up” by taking an assignment in a war zone.
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker(Tina Fey) takes a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel (Margot Robbie), a fellow journalist who takes the shellshocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
Join us for special sneak preview of KRISHA before it opens at Nitehawk on March 25. Includes a Q&A with director Trey Edward Shults!
When Krisha shows up at her sister’s Texas home on Thanksgiving morning, her close and extended family greet her with a mixture of warmth and wariness. Almost immediately, a palpable unease permeates the air, one which only grows in force as Krisha gets to work cooking the turkey and trying to make up for lost time by catching up with her various relatives, chief among them her nephew, Trey. As Krisha’s attempts at reconciliation become increasingly rebuffed, tension and suspicion reach their peak, with long-buried secrets and deep-seated resentments coming to the fore as everyone becomes immersed in an emotionally charged familial reckoning.
Nitehawk’s ART SEEN and frieze magazine present a special New York preview screening of the documentary on British artist David Hockney, HOCKNEY. Program includes screening new frieze videos and an introduction by Evan Moffitt, Assistant Editor at frieze.
Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends and never before seen footage from his own personal archive. This film is the definitive exploration of one of the most significant artists of his generation. For the first time, David Hockney has given access to his personal archive of photographs and film, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of his life. The film chronicles Hockney’s vast career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation to Hollywood where his lifelong struggle to escape labels (‘queer’, ‘working class’, ‘figurative artist’) was fully realized. The documentary traces the artist’s journey to live the American and Californian dream, yet paradoxically reveals that he never broke ties with the childhood that formed him.
Acclaimed filmmaker Randall Wright offers a unique view of this unconventional artist who is now reaching new peaks of popularity worldwide, and, at 78, is as charismatic as ever, working in the studio seven days a week.
Los Angeles really overheats in the erupting VOLCANO!
Angelenos are prepared for earthquakes but what happens when an earthquakes releases a hidden volcano?! That’s what happens in Volcano: a massive quake erupts in downtown Los Angeles and rocks the city so hard that Emergency Management department head Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) returns from his vacation to help with the city’s response. Just as geologist Dr. Amy Barnes warns of a lurking volcano, another earthquake hits and unleashes the molten lava! Roark and Barnes work to figure out how to divert the lava while the inhabitants of the city learn they have much more in common than in differences.
Part of Nitehawk’s April WHEN NATURE ATTACKS brunch series.
Starring: Don Francks, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rodger Bumpass
This December, ride out 2022 with The Deuce and your one-way-ticket to midnight – HEAVY METAL!! A heady flight of fantasy and phantasia into the future, the past – and beyond! Buxomy bombshells and putrefying bomber pilots… beauties and beasts! All set to the hot-boppin’ beats of a gamut of disparate rock-and-rollers: Devo! Blue Oyster Cult! Cheap Trick! Black Sabbath! DON FELDER!??!
A doozy of pulpy pleasures – torn from the pages of the cult comic magazine to mesmerize your eyes and ears! And just as those haze-addled hopped-up heads in Times Square’s Harris Theatre were – YOU’LL be satisfied – fied – fied… on HEAVY METAL!!!
A superstar is on a quest for power in the animated rock fable ROCK AND RULE.
In this explosive rock & roll movie, aging superstar Mok plots to raise a demon and unleash its powers for his own diabolical purposes. Mok’s plan to release the demon involves a search, a kidnapping, a singer named Angel and a trip to the post-apocalyptic metropolis known as Nuke York. The action accelerates when Angel’s band, led by Omar, attempts a daring rescue. Featuring original music by Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick and Debbie Harry, Rock & Rule is an award-winning animated cult classic.
Part of Nitehawk’s April MIDNITE MARAUDERS midnite series.
Starring: Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yuko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi
4K restoration
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity.
Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.
