Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
If we could spend the holidays with one person it would surely be Mr. John Waters. In Female Trouble, Waters tells the tale of the life and times of Dawn Davenport (played by the brilliant Divine). Not getting the cha-cha heels she wants for Christmas sets the course of Dawn’s life in motion: she runs away, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, becomes a fashion model and turns into a mass murderer who meets the electric chair. It doesn’t get any naughtier than this!
Jack Theakson, 35mm film archana archivist and historian presents a retro 35mm film program for the immature of all ages: wacky kiddie show stuff, the oddball and forgotten, Christmas film ephemera and three short features including the Our Gang kids and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The original celluloid movie fun mechanically projected without aid of electronics or digitization. Also presenting a NAUGHTY 35mm SHOW at midnite!
PROGRAM
TRAILERS/SNIPES (25 min) – Various kid-friendly trailers and snipes, including 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD.
CHRISTMAS/NEW YEARS GREETINGS (10 min) – various holiday snipes.
OUR GANG SHORT TBA (20 min)
CH. 1 of THE IRON CLAW (25 min) – Spooky doings in this 1941 serial chapter, where a fortune of gold is at stake, and the mysterious “Iron Claw” is after it!
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (8 min) – This rare 1948 Technicolor print is the only safety dye-transfer copy of Max Fleischer’s classic short about the famous Reindeer with the light-up nose.
Jack Theakston, film historian and archivist, has been working with classic movies since he was a teenager. First introduced to 16mm collecting at an early age, Mr. Theakston has since become one of the leading authorities on realism technology history in film, including 3-D, widescreen, stereophonic sound and color. Mr. Theakston has produced a number of special features for classic films on DVD, mounted numerous film festivals in both Los Angeles and New York, and currently manages the Capitol Theatre in Rome, NY, a venue that specializes in running classic films in 35mm.
Part of Nitehawk’s Naughty and Nice December program.
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Penned by the beloved John Hughes and starring a young precious Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone shows how resourceful a little kid can be when left alone… with stupid burglars. When his large family forgets him at home, amid a frenzy departing for a Parisian vacation, Culkin’s Kevin McCallister initially has a blast on his own, ordering pizza and learning how to shave. But he quickly turns into a mini-MacGyver when confronted by two idiotic criminals. With booby-traps galore, the resourceful youngster cleverly outsmarts the bickering thieves at every turn while his mother figures out how to get back home.
Jack Theakson, 35mm film archana archivist and historian presents a retro 35mm film program of forgotten filth for lovers of a degenerate and misbegotten past that your parents and grandparents would like to remain swept under the carpet. These weird and wanton images have been saved from the trash and from digitization and are presented in their original 35mm glory. Also presenting a kid-friendly program, HOLIDAY 35MM FUN SHOW, at brunch!
PROGRAM
HYPNOWHEEL INTRO (5 min) – A mad fiend welcomes you to an evening of terror, accompanied by a Hypno-Wheel.
TRAILERS/SNIPES (30 min) – Including such classics as NUDE IN A WHITE CAR and MY BABY IS BLACK!
COME TO POLAND (10 min) – Tour communist-era Poland in this positively Kubrickian travelogue.
LOVE FOR SALE (8 min) – 1950s Burlesque strippers both on-stage and behind the scenes!
VIOLATED clips (20 min) – Wim Holland produced and starred in this “masterpiece” of sleaze right on the streets of New York. See REAL NYC derelicts, circa 1953 and the real burlesque halls they frequented. This 20 minute condensation has some of the most head-scratching scenes from the film.
INTIMATE INTERVIEWS: BELA LUGOSI (8 min) – The master of horror in a candid interview right after his success in DRACULA.
Jack Theakston, film historian and archivist, has been working with classic movies since he was a teenager. First introduced to 16mm collecting at an early age, Mr. Theakston has since become one of the leading authorities on realism technology history in film, including 3-D, widescreen, stereophonic sound and color. Mr. Theakston has produced a number of special features for classic films on DVD, mounted numerous film festivals in both Los Angeles and New York, and currently manages the Capitol Theatre in Rome, NY, a venue that specializes in running classic films in 35mm.
Part of Nitehawk’s Naughty and Nice December program.
The Nitehawk Shorts Festival continues with our brunch screening featuring shorts made between 2011-2013.
The second day of Nitehawk Shorts Festival two-day screenings includes selections from submitted entries by Festival programmers. Categories include documentary, animation, and narrative fiction from filmmakers both in the United States and abroad.
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: DAY TWO PROGRAM
Kelsey Holtaway and Mark Cersosimo – This is My Home (7 minutes)
Rob Chapman and Amit Ashraf- Master of the Broken House (16 minutes)
Gina Torino – Infinity (5 minutes)
Sarah Barbault and Emilie Barbault Nizier – La Segmentation Des Sentiments (4 minutes)
Rachel Lambert – KIN (15 minutes)
Tunde Adebimpe – The Blast, The Bloom (4 minutes, 23 seconds)
Chris Muller – Rust (6 minutes, 30 seconds)
Dylan Allen – Epilogue (17 minutes)
Post-screening closing party for the Nitehawk Shorts Festival on Sunday from 2-4pm!
Prize sponsorship provided by Nice Shoes, the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos. Nice Shoes will give 20 hours of color grading with one of their night colorists (valued at $16K) to one Nitehawk Shorts Festival filmmaker selected by festival organizers and invited guest.
Find out more about our sponsor Jameson’s Jameson First Shot 2014 short film competition.
The debut of the Nitehawk Shorts Festival launches with our opening night screening celebrating New York filmmakers.
The opening night of Nitehawk’s debut Shorts Festival focuses on short film and video created by filmmakers living and working in the five boroughs of New York. This screening includes personal selections by Nitehawk’s Cinema Department and will be followed by a Q&A with the directors.
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM
Steven Siegel – Times Square Of The 80s: A Short Documentary (8 minutes)
Joe Palacios – The Pitch (5 minutes)
Ryan Koo – Amateur (9 minutes)
Eleanor Wilson – Possum (16 minutes)
A.V. Rockwell – Open City: The Dreamer (6 minutes, 30 seconds)
Marcel Simoneau and Kevin Corrigan – Two People He Never Saw (19 minutes)
Nicholas Bedo – Green Death (8 minutes)
Aida Ruilova – Goner (11 minutes, 30 seconds)
Jessica Edwards – SeltzerWorks (6 minutes)
Prize sponsorship provided by Nice Shoes, the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos. Nice Shoes will give 20 hours of color grading with one of their night colorists (valued at $16K) to one Nitehawk Shorts Festival filmmaker selected by festival organizers and invited guest.
Find out more about our sponsor Jameson’s Jameson First Shot 2014 short film competition.
The Nitehawk Shorts Festival continues with our brunch screening featuring shorts made between 2011-2013.
The first day of Nitehawk Shorts Festival two-day screenings includes selections from submitted entries by Festival programmers. Categories include documentary, animation, and narrative fiction from filmmakers both in the United States and abroad.
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: DAY ONE PROGRAM
Charles Chintzer Lai – Blue Monday
Theodore Collatos – Berlin Day to Night (11 minutes)
Christopher Sturman and Graeme Maclean – Sanko (4 minutes)
Jon Sajetowski – Sharp Love, Sharp Kittens (15 minutes)
Jon Truei – Whatever Happened to Amelia Earhart (1 minutes, 28 seconds)
Ross Brunetti – Dick Doblin: Privateye (20 minutes)
Prize sponsorship provided by Nice Shoes, the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos. Nice Shoes will give 20 hours of color grading with one of their night colorists (valued at $16K) to one Nitehawk Shorts Festival filmmaker selected by festival organizers and invited guest.
Find out more about our sponsor Jameson’s Jameson First Shot 2014 short film competition.
Nitehawk Cinema FILM FEASTS Presents:
“Annie Hall” with Brooklyn Brewery
The relationship between Brooklyn-born comedian Alvy Singer and ditsy Annie Hall in chronicled in Woody Allen’s classic New York romantic film, Annie Hall.
For Nitehawk’s November FILM FEASTS event that’s also part of our THX BKLYN celebration, we’ve teamed up with Brooklyn Brewery to present Annie Hall. This screening will include select delicious Brooklyn Brewing Company drafts paired with a food menu inspired by 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!
New York neurotic tendencies run rampant in Annie Hall where Woody Allen shows us the beginning, evolvement, and ultimate ending to one couple’s relationship. It’s a deep film with a range of humor (the scenes of Singer’s childhood in Coney Island with his family are particularly funny) that has become a portrait of a 1970s couple who, despite loving each other, can’t make it work. This story, full of laughter and tears, is relatable to any generation and like Allen says, we stick with relationships because, well, we need the eggs.
MENU (Tickets $65)
Coney Island Special
roasted tomato bisque, baked clams
Beer pairing: Brooklyn Sorachi Ace
Dinner at Katzs
pastrami, caraway sauerkraut, gruyere sauce, fingerling crisps,
Beer pairing: Winter is Coming
Duane’s Car Crash Monologue
Solo Beer: Brooklyn Blast!
Coke
powdered sugar doughnut holes, coca-cola custard
Beer: Brooklyn Monster Ale 2009
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Opening on Friday, October 25! From the creators of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz comes The World’s End, a wildly entertaining thrill ride of outrageous humour and explosive action that will raise a glass to the apocalypse.
20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
Llewyn Davis is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles – some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s misadventures take him from the baskethouses of the Village to an empty Chicago club – on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul – and back again.
