Nitehawk and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) present a special screening of BLUE VINYL: THE WORLD’S FIRST TOXIC COMEDY!
The screening will be followed by Q&A with the co-director, Judith Helfand, and leaders from Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) who will discuss a vinyl plastics Superfund site in Greenpoint, which has contaminated the soil and groundwater with toxic chemicals.
Skeptical of her parents’ decision to “re-side” their Long Island home with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) — the seemingly benign cure-all of suburbia — Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand set out with co-director Daniel B. Gold to discover the truth behind the potentially toxic effects of the material, which is used in building everything from automobiles to computers, medical equipment, and children’s toys. With a tender-hearted agenda and a piece of blue vinyl siding firmly in hand, Helfand and Gold travel to the vinyl-manufacturing capital in Louisiana, enlist the help of a “green” builder in California, and journey as far as Venice, Italy — where 31 executives from a PVC-producing company await trial for manslaughter in a landmark conspiracy case. Unexpectedly taking twists and turns in a filmmaking pursuit that most ordinary homeowners would never dare to take, BLUE VINYL is a heartfelt, sobering, and shockingly hilarious exploration of the complex relationship between consumers and industry.
The screening and discussion is presented in partnership with Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG).
Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle. Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers
Controversial upon its release and now a cult favorite, Ginger Snaps is uses the monthly werewolf turn and cravings to be analogous with the strange horror of becoming a woman. Fifteen-year-old Brigitte Fitzgerald and her nearly-sixteen-year-old sister Ginger are both best friends and outcasts. Obsessed with dying and bound by a childhood pact to stay together forever, they loathe their mind-numbing existence in the suburbs of Bailey Downs. One night the two girls are heading through the woods when Ginger is savagely attacked by a wild creature and while her wounds heal, something about her is not quite right.
No werewolf program is complete without the ultimate Universal horror classic, THE WOLF MAN.
Although a smattering of werewolf movies preceded it, including 1935’s The Werewolf of London, it’s Lon Chaney’s iconic role for Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man that defined the werewolf in cinema. He plays Larry Talbot, a man visiting Wales to attend his brother’s funeral. While in town, he purchases a silver cane which he uses to kill a wolf who attacks him on the walk home one night. Turns out that it was actually a man, a gypsy’s son who was a werewolf, and now Larry is one too. And so ensues the internal struggle of man versus monster!
Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.
Comedian Kevin Maher presents an obsessive look at wigs as they appear in movies, TV and real life. From toupee-wearing authority figures to hyper-glamorous drag queens, the evening crosses decades and genres to uncover a real fascination with fake hair.
Plus Special Guests:
Jon Abrams (Editor-in-Chief, Daily Grindhouse)
Tom Blunt (blogger, Word & Film)
Ariel Italic (Nobodies Hosting Drag Race)
Wendy Mays (host of “Pet Cinematary” podcast)
Tanya Smith (co-host of “Read It And Weep” podcast)
Kate Wilkinson (writer, Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy; WigWurq.tumblr.com)
Kseniya Yarosh (co-host, Bonnie & Maude podcast)
Nitehawk’s COUNTRY BRUNCHIN’ goes Spaghetti Western with the Sergio Leone epic, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. The screening features a live pre-show serenade by ARTHUR VINT & ASSOCIATES.
In The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) depicts three gunslingers competing to find fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold. Arguably the most stylish and influential film of the western genre, it is the third and final installment in Leone’s Dollars Trilogy (following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). Clint Eastwood returns as the “Man With No Name,” this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000 and letting no one, not even warring factions in the American Civil War, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold, hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it.
Come watch The Big Game 2016 on the Big Screen at Nitehawk as the DENVER BRONCOS and the CAROLINA PANTHERS teams battle it out for football’s biggest title!
You may have a large screen television but nothing beats seeing The Big Game on Nitehawk’s big theater screen with table-side service. Buying our $30 food and beverage voucher saves you a seat to watch the game with friends, family, and football fan strangers. We’ll be serving up our Housemade Hot Wings and will be featuring drink specials from the region of each team:
Panthers – Catdaddy Spiced Carolina Moonshine – $7
Broncos – Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale 12oz can – $6
To cap it all off, the Puppy Bowl with its saucy Halftime Kitten Show plays in the lobby. Go team!
Please note there will be a 20% service fee added to all food and beverage checks for this event.
The theatrical release of the Academy Award Nominated Short films has been met by enthusiastic audiences for ten years. This year, Nitehawk is pleased to present the 2016 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films in the Live Action and Animation categories!
The OSCAR® Nominated Short Films: LIVE ACTION are:
Ave Maria, Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Five nuns living in the West Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of Israeli settlers breaks down outside the convent. Unable to use the telephone due to Sabbath restrictions, the family needs help from the nuns, but the sisters’ vow of silence requires them to work with their visitors to find an unorthodox solution.
Day One, Henry Hughes
On the heels of a painful divorce, an Afghan-American woman joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan. On her first mission, she accompanies troops pursuing a bomb-maker, and must bridge the gender and culture gap to help the man’s pregnant wife when she goes into labor.
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut), Patrick Vollrath
Michael, a divorced father devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks her up for their usual weekend together. At first it feels like a normal visit, but Lea soon realizes that something is different, and so begins a fateful journey.
Shok, Jamie Donoughue
In Kosovo in 1998, two young boys are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear. Soon, the choices they make threaten not only their friendship, but their families and their lives.
Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary, Serena Armitage and Shan Christopher Ogilvie
For a lonely typographer, an online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated. Now, however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about himself.
The theatrical release of the Academy Award Nominated Short films has been met by enthusiastic audiences for ten years. This year, Nitehawk is pleased to present the 2016 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films in the Live Action and Animation categories!
The OSCAR® Nominated Short Films: ANIMATION are:
Bear Story
Producers: Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Every day, a melancholy old bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to his street corner. For a coin, passersby can look into the peephole of his invention, which tells the story of a circus bear who longs to escape and return to the family from which he was taken.
Prologue
Producers: Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
2,400 years ago, four warriors — two Spartan and two Athenian — battle to the death in an intense struggle witnessed by a little girl, who then runs to her grandmother for comfort.
Sanjay’s Super Team
Producers: Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
Young Sanjay, a first-generation Indian-American, is obsessed with television, cartoons and his superhero action figures. He is reluctant to spend time in daily prayers with his devout Hindu father, but a flight of imagination helps him develop a new perspective that he and his father can both embrace.
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
Producer: Konstantin Bronzit
Two best friends have dreamed since childhood of becoming cosmonauts, and together they endure the rigors of training and public scrutiny, and make the sacrifices necessary to achieve their shared goal.
World of Tomorrow
Producer: Don Hertzfeldt
A little girl named Emily is taken on a fantastical tour of her distant future by a surprising visitor who reveals unnerving secrets about humanity’s fate.
MUSIC DRIVEN looks at 25 years of punk politics in action with the documentary, POSITIVE FORCE: MORE THAN A WITNESS. Q&A with director Robin Bell, musicians Sohrab Habibion & Johnny Temple, and photographer Glen E. Friedman.
Punk activist collective Positive Force DC emerged in 1985, rising from the creative, politically-charged ferment of DC punk’s Revolution Summer. Born in a dynamic local scene sparked by Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and Rites of Spring, a handful of young activists also drew inspiration from UK anarcho-punks Crass and the original “Positive Force” band Seven Seconds to become one of the most long-lasting and influential exponents of punk politics.
This feature-length film by Robin Bell skillfully mixes rare archival footage (including electrifying live performances from Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Nation of Ulysses, Anti-Flag, and more) with new interviews of key PF activists including co-founder Mark Andersen (co-author of Dance of Days) and Jenny Toomey (Simple Machines, Tsunami) as well as supporters such as Ian MacKaye, Jello Biafra, Dave Grohl, Ted Leo, Riot Grrrl co-founders Allison Wolfe and Kathleen Hanna, and many more. Covering a span of 30 years, More Than a Witness documents PF’s Reagan-era origins, the creation of its communal house, FBI harassment, and the rise of a vibrant underground that burst into the mainstream amid controversy over both the means and the ends of the movement.
