Nitehawk Cinema and Captain Lawrence Brewing Company Present…
FILM FEASTS: THE LIFE AQUATIC

Matt Zoller Seitz will be signing copies of his new book, The Wes Anderson Collection, in our downstairs bar from 5:30pm until the film starts!*

Steve Zissou and his team seek out a mythical shark to avenge the death of his partner.

Join team Steve Zissou with Nitehawk and Captain Lawrence Brewing Company’s Film Feasts presentation of THE LIFE AQUATIC. As always, the screening includes delicious beverage and food menu pairings related to the film. The best part? You’ll be served each course during the specific moments that inspired the film so you can experience edible sensations while watching the action unfold on-screen!

Co-written with Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic is Wes Anderson’s parody and homage to Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The film features the eccentric oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) who sets out to get revenge on the mythical “Jaguarshark” that ate his partner Esteban…and he’s going to make a documentary about it. Along for the ride is Zissou’s crew of misfits including his estranged wife, a journalist, and maybe his son. So put on your red beanie to set out on the quirky underwater expedition that is much more than a shark hunt. It always is.

MENU ($75)

Fluorescent Snapper
snapper crudo, pesto de esteban, red amaranth
Drink Pairing: Captain Lawrence Sun Block

Steve’s Favorites
olive oil poached sardines, fennel, apple, fennel fronds
Drink Pairing: Captain Lawrence Liquid Gold

The Black Box
shrimp and squid ink sausage, beet pasta, parmesan foam
Drink Pairing: Captain Lawrence IPA

Rum Cannonball
pineapple and rum cannonball fritter, coconut and rum custard
Drink Pairing: Captain Lawrence Smoked Porter

*Matt Zoller Seitz, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, currently writes for New York magazine and is the author of The Wes Anderson Collection. This gorgeous heavily illustrated book is the first in-depth overview of Anderson’s filmography and hit both the NYT and LAT bestseller lists this fall.

For One Nite Only, Nitehawk presents HOW TO BE A MAN with Gavin McInnes (Actor, Co-Writer), Chadd Harbold (Director, Co-Writer) and Bryan Gaynor (Co-Writer) in person for a post-screening Q&A. 

A real genius self-diagnoses cancer, and then films a series of instruction videos to leave for his unborn son.

After finding a lump in his man-boob and fearing certain death, Mark (Gavin McInnes), a former comedian, hires the services of Bryan (Liam Aiken), a young, impressionable cameraman, to document important video lessons for Mark’s unborn son. With the help of Bryan, Mark gives his own comical, and often crude interpretation of what it truly means to be a man—like how to fight a bully, how to drink, and how to pick up women. When he almost loses everything important to him, Mark realizes that he is the one with the most to learn.

Nitehawk Cinema and Brightest Young Things present a special screening of David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY featuring a live musical performance by a place both wonderful and strange.

The event kicks off Nitehawk’s retrospective series on contemporary composer, Angelo Badalamenti (THE WORKS – ANGELO BADALAMENTI). Also, attending guests are invited to our downstairs bar after the film to celebrate National Absinthe Day featuring a special Pernod Absinthe cocktail!

Visualizing the variations of memory and conscience, David Lynch’s Lost Highway is a dreamlike journey through a murder mystery. Like dreams, the film’s narrative isn’t linear nor does it apply to the logic of reality. Instead what unfolds is a fluidly bizarre unraveling of a jazz musician’s journey into madness. After a bizarre encounter at a party, he is accused of murdering his wife and inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic; basically avoiding one fate by embracing another. Lost Highway is a definitive Lynchian adventure not to be missed on the big screen.

As a long-time composer for David Lynch’s films, Angelo Badalamenti provides a tactile ethereal score to Lost Highway. Set amidst the soundtrack produced by Trent Reznor (featuring everyone from Marilyn Manson to the Smashing Pumpkins), Badalamenti’s score nearly becomes a character itself.

a place both wonderful and strange performs an intricately conceived smeary, hypnotic DJ set that nods to the classic works of Angelo Badalamenti, Lost Highway’s Trent Reznor-produced gothic metal-tinged soundtrack recording,  and the film’s themes of disorientation, confusion and disembodiment, in combination with unique visuals and distorted portraits produced by digital designer/collaborator Deanna Paquette.

Starring: Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont, Yves Barsacq

Knowledge is power in an alien world of Fantastic Planet (aka La Planète sauvage) where the oppressed Oms/humans rebel from their overseers, the Triages. With visuals consisting of stop-motion cut-out courtesy of artist and writer Roland Topor, it’s not surprising that this film is noted for its surrealist imagery. In fact, it’s Fantastic Planet’s bizarre aesthetics and an intricate sex scene make this animated feature most memorable.

The feature will be preceded by:
The Silicon Ricardo Villavicencio
U.S. 2022 5 min. English
Humans uploaded their brains to the cloud and left their bodies behind; a generation of headless ones must learn to live without the mind to begin a new world.

Mount Vernon and Fairway Phill Skokos, Edel Ferri
U.S. 2024 12 min. English
Based on the eponymous Beach Boys EP, a young prince embarks on a technicolor adventure when he discovers a magic transistor radio in his attic.

For years, lines have been drawn…and then colored in yellow.

To celebrate the one year anniversary of Nitehawk’s weekly Simpsons Club, we will be counting down the 17 best episodes of the series all March long and conclude in the theater with a screening of our pick of the #1 episode followed by The Simpsons Movie. Plus a Simpsons-inspired cocktail menu like the classic ‘skittlebrau’ and a raffle of Simpsons swag!

The brainchild of the show’s best writers, The Simpsons Movie was seventeen years in the making. The story of a man, his family and his town. The Simpsons Movie follows Homer to Alaska after he inadvertently tips Springfield’s pollution problem past the breaking point, forcing a power-mad EPA agent to seal the town under an indestructible dome.

Starring: Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, James Gandolfini, Gary Oldman, Michael Rapaport, Brad Pitt

The Quentin Tarantino penned True Romance certainly isn’t your run-of-the-mill love story, but the passion (borderline obsession) between Clarence and his reformed hooker wife Alabama sure is palpable. A modern day Bonnie and Clyde, they meet, fall in love, and then proceed to steal a whole lot of drugs from her pimp. As with most things in love and life, things are never easy (there’s murders and mobsters), but the one thing that remains true is their romance.

Two kids must save their secret agent parents from danger! SPY KIDS is film fun for the whole family courtesy of Robert Rodgriuez. 

Nine years ago, top international spies Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez traded the excitement of espionage for the adventure of parenthood. But when they’re called out on a secret mission, the Cortezes are separated from their family and kidnapped by the evil Fegan Floop. Fortunately, there are two people who possess the skills and know-how to reunite the family: Carmen and Juni Cortez, their kids. And they’re just like real spies…only smaller!

THE DEUCE takes you to the Liberty Theatre circa 1986, for COMBAT SHOCK, Buddy Giovinazzo’s harrowing debut masterwork for shlockfactory production studio Troma.

Plus: Liberty Theatre lore, prizes and surprises, drink special at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by Jeff, Andy, and Joe! Includes a Q & A by Special Makeup Effects Artist Ed Varuolo!

“Your not looking for a job, you’re waiting for the world to end…” says Veronica Stork’s Cathy Dunlan to Vietnam vet husband Frankie (played by Rick Giovinazzo) who’s PTSD makes Taxi Driver‘s Travis Bickle look like Mickey Mouse. Fifteen years after the war, broken Frankie lives in poverty with his wife and Agent Orange-mutated infant child (played by a $140 puppet), amongst junkies, criminals, and child prostitutes. He’s at his wit’s end to find work until his brutal, uncompromising final act of mercy.

Considered by studio head (and Executive Producer) Lloyd Kaufman to be one of Troma’s true masterpieces, Director Buddy Giovinazzo’s (brother of Rick) debut feature is a terrifying, heartbreaking depiction of Reagan-era urban blight and modern day shell-shocked misery. War is Hell, but so is Staten Island, in the movie about which Videohound said, “you won’t find a more depressing film outside an art-house cinema.”

FINAL WEEKS: playing at Nitehawk until March 27! The Best Foreign Language Film Academy winner, THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA BRANDE BELLEZZ) screens at Nitehawk.

Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

A beautiful mix of visuals shot in 16mm, Super 8 and video melds with sync and non-sync soundtracks by the legendary Washington D.C. band Fugazi in the stunning documentary, Instrument. Wholly original, you wouldn’t expect Fugazi to do anything traditional and their documentary is no exception. Covering a ten year period, from 1987-1997, Instrument provides access to stage shows, rehearsals, recording sessions and interviews with fans (and some who aren’t). It extends beyond a portrait of a band and bleeds into a specific time period in music that is so close to many hearts. Named after one of the songs on their 1993 album In On the Kill Taker, the documentary also spawned one of the best soundtracks in history.