Opening on Friday, November 8! A true story of friendship, love and murder, KILL YOUR DARLINGS recounts the pivotal year that changed Allen Ginsberg’s life forever and provided the spark for him to start his creative revolution

For dutiful son Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Columbia University is Mecca—a portal to art, intellect, culture, and freedom—everything hometown Patterson, New Jersey is not. When Allen is accepted into Columbia, his father, a working-class poet, urges him to leave his emotionally ill mother behind and head to New York to go pursue his own creative dreams. Once there, he meets people who will forever alter his life as a 1944 murder draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs

Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked up into solitary confinement for 20 years without reason.

Spike Lee’s much anticipated Oldboy (an American remake of the South Korean film of the same name, both of which are based on the Japanese manga) features Joe Doucett, an advertising executive is kidnapped and held prisoner for twenty years in solitary confinement. After he is suddenly released, he goes on a mission to find the person responsible for his imprisonment, later discovering that his life is still caught in conspiracy and torment.

The story of a young lesbian couple’s beginning, middle and possible end.

Abdellatif Kechiche’s newest film, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation. Blue pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, some verbal and some physical.

Starring: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow, Jami Gertz, Zohra Lampert

Armored in black-studded leather, mesh, and mousse, Vincent Spano’s mobster middle-man Johnny (aka ‘Chunga’) saddles up his Pontiac Firebird and takes on the neon drenched street’s of Manhattan’s Heroin City – where Avenue A extends to the River East…. and hard choices make for harder lessons learned: will he get out or will he get BURNED?!!

Directed by ‘No Wave’ maverick and downtown-denizen Amos Poe (The Blank Generation, Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party) and shot by Oliver Wood (in a style that directly influenced Miami Vice), ALPHABET CITY scorches the screen with hot-headed performers, fast-paced action, and an electro-drenched score (by Chic co-founder and pop music mastermind Nile Rodgers)…  culminating in one gloriously satisfying roller coaster ride of redemption.

Celebrating their gorgeously restored and recently released Blu-ray, Fun City Editions invites you to an evening with director Amos Poe, presenting a rare 35mm print of ALPHABET CITY… with special guest Joe ‘Zieg’ Berger of The Deuce Film Series moderating a post-screening Q&A!

Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy

It’s getting cold out so hunker down at Nitehawk to see Altman weave the tale of a business partnership gambler (Warren Beatty) and a prostitute (Julie Christie) in a remote Old West mining town in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Their’s is an unlikely bond formed between two very different people that only strengthens when a big corporation comes in to take over the developing town. You know the story, independent men battle it out with “the man” over the ability to keep their land. Of course, McCabe refuses and that only leads to big trouble for Mrs. Miller and the rest of the town.

Spoons, Toons & Booze Christmas Special

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Christmas Themed Episodes!

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.

We love watching all the holiday cartoons on TV during the weeks before Christmas, but they don’t show the awesome holiday specials we watched when we were kids anymore. We’ve solved this problem by hosting our own Christmas Special filled with holiday episodes of all the cartoons you loved as a kid! Come watch all of your favorite cartoon characters from the 1930’s through 1990’s learn the real meaning of Christmas!

 – Over 80 cartoon series to choose from and YOU get to choose what we watch!

 – Hosted by Santa Claus himself! Have your picture taken on Santa’s lap and send it to your parents.

– Special menu of Christmas themed episodes including the rare “He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special”, only aired once in the 80’s and then banished to VHS obscurity!

 – Free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.

– White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and a minty “Santa’s White Russian”!

 – Hot winter drinks like Bourbon Apple Cider to warm you up and put you in the holiday spirit!

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl!

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from Nitehawk Cinema!

A re-imagining of the classic horror tale best-selling novel by Stephen King.

Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. You will know her name! 

New York Surf Film Festival presents a screening of Telepathic Supersonic Space Ninja Surfers and Innersection: Black…

Telepathic Supersonic Space Ninja Surfers (2013) directed by Dan Fogler, starring Dan’s cousins! Q&A with director Dan Fogler! (3 minutes)
Telepathic Supersonic Space Ninja Surfers is a film short by Hollywood actor Dan Fogler and his production company Studio 13.  It is an homage to video games, surfing, and the mighty morphing power rangers!  Starring Dan’s own little cousins.

Innersection: Black (2013) directed Nathan Myers, Calvin Knowlton, Saul Garcia, Ben Gulliver, Damien Robertson, Adam Chilton, Adam DeWolfe, Joao Rito, Nat Lanyon, Jay Button, Dan Norkunas, Zachary Hill, Toby Cregan, starring Albee Layer, Peter Devries, Gilbert Brown, Carlos Munoz, Raph Bruhwiler, Leif Engstrom, Asher Pacey, Nic Von Rupp, Alex Chacon, Keikea Elias, Josh Mulcoy, Brett Burcher, Noah Cohen (45 minutes)
Innersection is the world’s original open-source freesurfing competition, developed by Taylor Steele and Nathan Myers. The 13 all-new sections that form Innersection: Black were each produced by the surfers themselves, then selected from hundreds of online submissions to be reimagined for this final release. The surfing was filmed all around the world, with highlights in Canada, Portugal, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Australia, and Hawaii. There’s also an all-new submission from defending $100,000 champion, Albee Layer. Innersection is pure surfing: surfer created, viewer selected, and ocean inspired.

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New York Surf Film Festival presents a screening of Surf Right and Immersion…

Surf Right (2012) directed by John Huet (3 minutes)
A documentary short film inspired by a community of cold water surfers who embrace unforgiving conditions to follow their passion.

Immersion (2012) directed by Tim Bonython (104 minutes)
Over the past seven years, surfing enthusiast and filmmaker Tim Bonython has spent every available moment doing what he loves: filming images of breath-taking wave riding in all corners of the globe and conducting interviews with the biggest figureheads of the surfing industry. Over 16 TB of footage and 150 interviews later, Tim Bonython started bringing his greatest project yet to life. Immersion the movie looks at every aspect of surfing; from its early history, through the evolution of surfboards, the science of surfing, the growth of the sport and development of competition, how surfing is portrayed in the media, to the business of surfing through interviews with its athletes, cameramen and film editors.

Immersion features some of surfing’s greatest talents and personalities, and takes you to some of the world’s most isolated, notorious and picturesque surfing locations. It’s not all big waves and boards! The film covers all aspects of the sport – from body surfing and body boarding, surf ski, long boarding and even the new stand up paddle boarding.
Immersion is an intense sight and sound experience, a “must see” for surfing enthusiasts of all tastes, generations and walks of life.

New York Surf Film Festival presents a screening of Soul of a Carnation, Heart of a Surfer,  1964, Gasoline, and Groundswell…

Soul of a Carnation, Heart of a Surfer (2013) directed by Hélio Valentim starring Pedro Martins de Lima, Carlos Lopes, Andrea Molina, Hugo Silva Montero, Lurdes & Leonor (9 minutes)
“A surf story about freedom and friendship, history and life, about the feeling of being free…and about soul surf!

The short film is a mix of documentary with the finnest and first great Portuguese Surfer and Waterman, Pedro Martins de Lima, talking about surfing in the 50?s until 1974, during the opressive regime in Portugal where surf were not allowed, and also a visual fiction of some friends that celebrates freedom, in reunion around the fire in a beautiful beach.

The film it’s a freedom surfer celebration…”

1964 (2012) directed by Mike Bromley, starring Dean Petty (5 minutes)
Set in the year “1964? and shot on location in Nova Scotia, Canada. Dean Petty stars in this short film with a classic feel. “1964? is clean and crisp and brings us back to a simpler time, not only in life but also in surfing.

Gasoline (2012) directed by Júlio Barreiros, starring Ricardo Carrajola (23 minutes)
The wave, the surfer, the dream… When these three words are combined, our lives can change. A surfer always seeks the best waves, that relentless pursuit that makes him travel the world searching for the perfect wave. But what if the wave, which we often dreamed of the ocean, was closer than ever imagined? And when we least expect it in a river?

A group of friends from Barreiro city, in Portugal, discovered a phenomenon: the boat that connects their city to Lisbon provides a perfect wave that rolls along 150 meters in the Tagus river. They call it: “Gasoline”.

A wave is just a wave until someone has the vision to ride it. And then the imagination can become reality. Perfect, beautiful and mysterious, the wave shows only to those who really like her, seek her, cherish, and have a special relationship with her. This is a story of friendship, dedication, strength to believe and sharing happiness in an unlikely scenario surfing Portugal’s most urban wave. Despite being in the sight of thousands of people, the secret was now revealed…

Groundswell (2012) directed by Chris Malloy, starring Dan Malloy (23 minutes). Q&A with the Malloy Brothers!
“It’s not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress”- John Muir

Venice, CA (January 30) – At great environmental risk, and against the wishes of most British Columbians and its aboriginal people, the Enbridge Northern Gateway project would pipe tar sands oil from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia for delivery to markets in Asia and California. Last fall, Raincoast Conservation Foundation teamed up with filmmaker/Patagonia surf ambassador Chris Malloy to highlight all that’s at stake. Groundswell, Chris’ short documentary, charts an extraordinary surf trip along BC’s unspoiled west coast with surfers acting as ambassadors for marine life. Through their remarkable experiences, and compelling narrative by young indigenous leaders, the film provides a fresh voice to a coast in peril.