TALL COUNTY performs a live serenade before April’s Country Brunchin’ film, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The friendship between two legendary outlaws is tested when one becomes sheriff whose sole purpose is to kill his old pal Billy the Kid.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is set at the tail-end of the 1880s in New Mexico where greed over cattle and land territory not only cause a riff between two old friends but also has repercussions involving the New West. Pat Garrett (played by the ever cool James Coburn) catches Billy the Kid (singer Kris Kristopherson) over an old murder and sentences him to hang. Of course Billy escapes by blowing up the jail and the manhunt ensues. Rife with production problems, the film alone has a whopping six editors attached, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is ultimately about male bonding during a time of a nation’s development. Full of shoot-outs and sexual-encounters, it’s a downright good time.

Tall County is a Brooklyn-based trio writing and playing stripped-down songs on strung-up instruments that don’t require electricity to be heard. They recorded their debut EP, Shine, singing and picking around a couple mics in a souped-up family barn in the Hudson Valley. A wood-burning stove helped with the heat.

Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova

Spurred on by MGM following the success of James Whale’s Frankenstein and Tod Browning’s Dracula, Freaks would wind up being the controversial film of the century that pushed the boundaries of horror and the avant-garde. The jarring imagery of severely disabled actors seeking revenge upon a beautiful trapeze artist whose intentions of marrying the leader of the side-show performers are horribly cruel caused Freaks to be banned for decades, only seeing a release in the 1960s. Harsh yet beautiful, the film’s social commentary on how deformities on the inside can be far more grotesque than any physical defect is still potent today.

OPENING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7! Since 2006, the theatrical release of the Academy Award Nominated Short films has been met by enthusiastic audiences and Nitehawk is pleased to present OSCAR® Nominated Short Film Live Action and Animation for the third year in a row. 

The OSCAR® Nominated Short Film Animation works are:

FERAL (Directors Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden)
A wild boy who has grown up in the woods is found by a hunter and returned to civilization.

GET A HORSE! (Directors: Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim)
Mickey Mouse and his friends are enjoying a wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete shows up with plans to ruin their day.

MR HUBLOT (Directors: Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares)
The eccentric, isolated Mr. Hublot finds his carefully ordered world disrupted by the arrival of Robot Pet.

POSSESSIONS (Director: Shuhei Morita)
A man seeking shelter from a storm in a dilapidated shrine encounters a series of household objects inhabited by goblin spirits.

ROOM ON THE BROOM (Directors: Max Lang and Jan Lachauer)
A genial witch and her cat are joined on their broom by several friends as they set off on an adventure.

Watch trailers and get more information by visiting the OSCAR SHORTS page.

OPENING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7! Since 2006, the theatrical release of the Academy Award Nominated Short films has been met by enthusiastic audiences and Nitehawk is pleased to present OSCAR® Nominated Short Film Live Action and Animation for the third year in a row. 

The OSCAR® Nominated Short Film Live Action works are:

AQUEL NO ERA YO (THAT WASN’T ME)
Director: Esteban Crespo
Paula, a Spanish aid worker, has an encounter with an African child soldier named Kaney.

AVANT QUE DE TOUT PERDRE (JUST BEFORE LOSING EVERYTHING)
Directors: Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
Miriam has left her abusive husband and taken refuge with her children in the local supermarket where she works.

HELIUM
Directors Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
A dying boy finds comfort in the tales of a magical land called HELIUM, told to him by the hospital janitor.

PITAAKO MUN KAIKKI HOITAA? (DO I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING?) Directors: Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
Sini tries frantically to get her family ready to leave for a wedding, but her husband and two children are interfering with her efforts.

THE VOORMAN PROBLEM
Directors: Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
A psychiatrist is called to a prison to examine an inmate named Voorman, who is convinced he is a god.

Watch trailers and get more information by visiting the OSCAR SHORTS page.

You know the Chicago story best in musical form but this is the original narrative film about murderous vixon Roxie Hart…with a live musical score by GUIZOT!

For a long time, audiences were unable to see this 1927 classic comedy-drama silent film by Frank Urson (produced by legendary director Cecil B. DeMille) but thanks to the UCLA Film and Television Archive, whose recent print we’ll be screening, that has all changed. Chicago is drawn from material in a play by Maurine Dallas Watkis’ based on the true life story of Beulah Annan, fictionalized as Roxie Hart, and the high-profile murder of her boyfriend. With Hollywood in mind, the ending in Chicago is more cruel (criminals must pay!) but the journey there is full of misplaced celebrity, feminine wiles, jazz, booze, and retribution.

Guizot: Clifton Hyde (Guitars, Mandolin, & Composer), Chris Komer (French Horn), Grant Zubritsky (Bass), and Rich Stein (Percussion).

A Live Sound Cinema part of our Chicago: second city on film series

Starring: Franca Maï, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire

The most “lucid” of the Rollin oeuvre, Fascination is blunt, beautiful, and blood-thirsty.

It’s pretty much impossible to try to write about a Jean Rollin film, they are much better suited to explain themselves. The king of erotic-horror (read: lesbian vampires), Rollin’s films are often bad, sometimes un-watchable, but always visually stunning. These art films recall the look of other European “horror” films of the era but remain, ques cu sa?, resoundingly French. With soft-core porn stars as actresses and plenty of nudity, Fascination is about two seductive women who are part of an aristocratic vampire cult. Without a doubt, Fascination is one of Rollin’s dreamy best.

Last day at Nitehawk is this Thursday – hurry! In Dead Man Down, director Niels Arden Oplev (of the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fame) shows us that revenge is never a straightforward endeavor.

Girl stalks boy. Girl sees boy kill someone. Girl meets boy. Boy gets wrapped up in a beautiful revenge story full of anger, passion, and action in this neo-noir thriller. Never one to disappoint when it comes to playing cold-blooded murderers with a heart of gold, Colin Farrell is Victor, the right-hand man to New York crime lord Alphonse Hoyt (Terence Howard) who is also responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter. Compounding upon that motivation for revenge is Beatrice (Noomi Rapace) who seeks her own vengeance by blackmailing Victor.

Nitehawk Cinema Presents:
Beer, Dinner and a Movie with Brooklyn Brewery
“The Godfather: Part II”

The past and future of the Corleone family are shown in the second part of Francis Ford Coppola’s family crime epic, The Godfather: Part II.

For Nitehawk’s March Beer, Dinner and a Movie, we’ve teamed up with Brooklyn Brewery to present Francis Ford Coppola’s, The Godfather: Part 2. As always, this screening will include select delicious drafts of beer paired with a food menu inspired by the film. The best part? You’ll be served each course during the specific moments in the film that inspired the menu, so you can experience edible sensations while watching the action unfold on-screen!

Murder. Betrayal. Crime. Family. The Godfather: Part II shows us the beginnings of a gangster family, both in the early 1920s New York and Sicilian life of “godfather” Vito Corleone (played by Robert de Niro) and his son Michael’s (Al Pacino) budding life of crime as he takes control over their crime syndicate stretching from Nevada to Cuba in the late 1950s. The Godfather films set the tone for a new wave of gangster films and is rightly considered an American classic.

MENU
BEER PAIRINGS BY BROOKLYN BREWERY.

Course 1: Ellis Island
Yankee Bean Soup
Ham hock broth, micro celery
Beer pairing: Brooklyn Lager

Course 2: First Communion
“Communion”
mini pizzelle, port gelee
Beer pairing: AMA Bionda

Course 3: “The Black Hand”
Salumi e Formaggio
sopressata, mortadella, taleggio
Pairing: AMA Bruna

Course 4: “Keep Your Friends Close”
Solo Beer: Brooklyn Blast

Course 5: Hyman Roth’s Birthday
Camarones Sofrito
saffron rice, black beans, pancetta
Beer pairing: Sorachi Ace

Course 6: San Gennaro Festa
Savory Zeppole
anchovy, arugula, parmesan
Beer Pairing: Local 1

Course 7: “Frank Pantangeli Is Alive”
Beer: Flight – Chocolate Cigar
Beer pairing: There Will Be Black

Course 8: Don Cicci
Sorbetto di Arance Rosse
Beer pairing: Black Chocolate Stout

Near the end
Half Shot of Orange Liquor

After-party in the downstairs bar following the film includes free Brooklyn Brewery Beer!

Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Jacki Weaver, Dermot Mulroney

After India’s father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother. Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

One night only! New York independent animator Bill Plympton joins Nitehawk in presenting his new animated feature, Cheatin’, that will be shown as a “work in progress.”

In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of Romance.  But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate.  With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden “soul machine”, Ella takes the form of Jake’s numerous lovers, desperately fighting through malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.

This is the rare chance to watch Bill Plympton’s tenth feature film, Cheatin, as a work-in-progress animated feature and to fill-out feedback response cards. Plympton will also be in-house to do an introduction to the film and a post-screening Q&A.