In honor of Harold Ramis, Nitehawk presents one of our favorite films…STRIPES!
Wallowing in dead-end jobs and failed relationships, John Winger (Bill Murray) convinces his pal Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) into joining the army…you know, for kicks. And while they find themselves under the nose of impatient Sergeant Hulke and a platoon of misfits, they all band together and start doing pretty well. It’s not until the two friends fall for two pretty MPs, steal a military vehicle, and accidentally wind up in Soviet Territory that things start to get real…funny. Amazingly made with full cooperation with the U.S. Army, for our money, Stripes is one of the best comedies in cinema!
ART SEEN presents a documentary about the most famous artist you’ve never heard of…LLYN FOULKES ONE MAN BAND.
Weekday screening on Tuesday, September 9 includes an introduction by Margot Norton, Assistant Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Special introduction by Raphael Rubinstein, Former Senior Editor at Art in America, before the Saturday, September 13 screening and by Editor Maria Cataldo before the Sunday, September 14 screening.
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band is a feature documentary that follows the Los Angeles-based painter and musician, Llyn Foulkes, from age 70 – 77 as he struggles to be acknowledged for his achievements. During the seven years chronicled in the film, Foulkes creates, destroys, and recreates a pair of large scale, three-dimensional paintings (one that costs him his marriage) all the while trying to keep a toehold on the art market. With commentary from Dennis Hopper and George Herms, it’s revealed how Foulkes has avoided “selling his soul”, setting the tone for the next fifty years of his uncompromising, up-and-down career and the international art world that is at last discovering him at the age of 77.
ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
Nitehawk and Noisey present BREADCRUMB TRAIL, a new documentary on the band Slint, for the March MUSIC DRIVEN.
TWO SCREENINGS! MARCH 17 SCREENING includes Q&A with director Lance Bangs, David Pajo, and David Grubbs! Extra screening on MARCH 18 with giveaways (no guests)!
Feature length documentary about the band Slint and the Louisville music culture they emerged from. Throughout the 1980s, a group of friends in Louisville, Kentucky grew up forming bands, breaking up, and reforming in different configurations. They were playing hardcore shows at ages 10-12, touring with Samhain as 14 year olds, recording for Homestead as Squirelbait at age 15, then formed Slint in their late teens and recorded the classic album Spiderland before they were 21. They broke up before the album’s release, giving no interviews and vanishing into their own shadows. Two decades passed as filmmaker Lance Bangs assembled unseen footage of the teenagers writing and arranging Spiderland as well as the first on camera interviews with the band members and their contemporaries trying to decipher what they had been through. Featuring Slint, Steve Albini, Ian Mackaye, David Grubbs, David Yow, James Murphy and archival material from Will Oldham.
Part of Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN series. In partnership with Noisey. Sponsored by Absolut.
FINAL WEEKS: playing at Nitehawk until March 20! Nitehawk screens the 2014 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary by Morgan Neville, TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM!
Millions know their voices, but no one knows their names. In his compelling new film, award-winning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. Triumphant and heartbreaking in equal measure, the film is both a tribute to the unsung voices who brought shape and style to popular music and a reflection on the conflicts, sacrifices and rewards of a career spent harmonizing with others.
These gifted artists span a range of styles, genres and eras of popular music, but each has a uniquely fascinating and personal story to share of life spent in the shadows of superstardom. Along with rare archival footage and a peerless soundtrack, Twenty Feet from Stardom boasts intimate interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger and Sting to name just a few. However, these world-famous figures take a backseat to the diverse array of backup singers whose lives and stories take center stage in the film.
Starring: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Michael Smiley, Ryan Pope, Sara Dee
England during the Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O’Neil and Cutler. O’Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
THE DEUCE storms the New Amsterdam for Rene Daalder’s MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, drink special at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Not what its title implies at all, Massacre at Central High (aka Blackboard Massacre) is neither a slasher spooker nor gory gross-out, but a powerful commentary on post-Vietnam, 1970s American unrest. First time director – and protégée of Russ Meyer – Rene Daalder’s unfairly neglected political allegory is now more relevant than ever.
Derrel Maury’s transfer student David gets in with the ‘in’ crowd, but learns fast that their iron fist threatens the entire student body. Soon David liberates then rallies the school’s underclass – who become an oppressive force themselves, armies of social outcasts – while David plots his revenge fantasy of revolutionary mass murder. Years ahead of the more popular Heathers (on which Central’s influence is more than palpable), Daalder’s debut foreshadows the vigilante angst of Columbine and the early-21st Century’s lost generation of mid-teen marauders.
If you build it, he will come!
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella takes a leap of faith in building a baseball field on his Iowa corn farm when he hears a voice tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” When the field produces the ghosts of seven of the Chicago White Sox players who were banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, it brings a golden past into the present. But this heaven on Earth doesn’t stop the voices for Ray so he seeks out to find the meaning of these messages and the true purpose of his baseball field. Similar to other films in the baseball theme, Field of Dreams shows how the seemingly impossible can become incredibly true.
Part of Nitehawk’s brunch PLAY BALL 2! series.
Starring: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
Written by Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma is at his stylish gangster thriller best in the classic drug cartel film about the high and low times of Tony Montana, Scarface. In the 1980s Montana entered the United States with a flood of Cuban immigrants sent by Fidel Castro to be reunited with relatives. Obsessed with the American Dream and the notion of making it, Montana and his friend Manny slowly work their way up in Miami. Starting with small-time jobs they eventually get in with drug kingpin Frank Lopez but greed and lust prove that all good things can’t last forever. Success may come and go but one thing is for sure, you’ll remember him as… Scarface.
Starring: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham, Grace Zabriskie, William S. Burroughs
In his breakthrough film, Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy follows four drug addicted friends as they travel across the Pacific Northwest in 1971 robbing drugstores in order to fuel their habits. When the inevitable tragedy hits the group (overdose), the superstitious Bob (Matt Dillon) makes a real effort to go straight in order to avoid death or jail. But his wife’s (the stunning Kelly Lynch) and an ex-priest’s (drug hero William Burroughs) determination to continue to get high makes the living the clean life difficult. Good luck can’t run on forever and no matter how good of a con artist you are, you always pay the price.
Choose Life. A young man tries to escape the allure of drugs and drug addiction in Danny Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING.
Nearly twenty years after its release, Trainspotting hasn’t lost any of the film magic that Danny Boyle created on the big screen when he adapted Irvine Welsh’s novel about heroin addicted youth in Edinburgh, Scotland. Audiences go on a perfectly paced ride, fueled with highs and lows, following a group of lost young adults trying to escape the mundane in the mid-1990s. Welsh’s brilliant cast of characters come to life (our favorite – Sick Boy) as the story centers around Renton (played to perfection by a young and skinny Ewan McGregor) and his attempts to clean up his life. And while some of Trainspotting scenes are shocking, others are shockingly beautiful; showing the glory and inevitable downfall associated with drug addiction.
Part of Nitehawk’s midnite JUST SAY YES program.
