Nitehawk Cinema proudly presents our 5th Annual ULTRA MEGA OSCARS with NYLON Magazine on February 28th!

What could be more glamorous than watching all the drama, tears, and glory of Hollywood’s biggest night on the big screen with tableside food and beverage? Who will win? Who will be outraged? Our celebration of all things movies from the previous year includes fun games and, of course, tableside food and beverage during the event. Plus, each guest will receive a swag bag courtesy of NYLON Magazine!

See our menu below for the select food and drink specials inspired by the nominees. Our $30 food and beverage voucher saves your seat, so you won’t miss a second of all the glitz and glamor!

BRIDGE OF SPIES
Best Picture / Best Supporting Actor / Best Original Score / Best Production Design / Best Sound Mixing / Best Original Screenplay

Spielburger ($13) – house special blended beef, muenster, barrel aged sauerkraut, secret Russian dressing, brioche, house cut fries or salad
The Standing Man ($11) – Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey, Carpano Dry, Maraschino Liqueur, Ramazzotti Amaro, orange bitters, Angostura Bitters

SPOTLIGHT
Best Picture / Best Director / Best Supporting Actor / Best Supporting Actress / Best Original Screenplay / Best Film Editing /

Fenway Park ($10) – beef hot dog, Boston baked beans, diced onions, house cut fries or salad
Irish Catholic Coffee ($10) – Jameson Irish Whiskey, coffee syrup, Averna, dry vermouth, Angostura Bitters

CAROL
Best Actress / Best Supporting Actress / Best Cinematography / Best Costume Design / Best Original Score / Best Adapted Screenplay

Perpetual Sunrise ($11) – Bulldog Gin, Dolin Rouge Vermouth, Fernet Branca, Green Chartreuse

JOY
Best Actress

HUGGABLE HANGERS ($13) – marinated hanger steak, pico de gallo, chipotle mayo, white corn tortillas, lime

Please note that there will be a 20% service fee added to all food and beverage checks for this event.

Nitehawk Naughties’ spends the night in a castle with Jean Rollin’s erotically blood-thirsty film, FASCINATION. Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland!

THE CULT: FASCINATION (Un film de JEAN ROLLIN)

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 (and 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 (aka Les Frisson des Vampires) is tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two seductive women (Eva and Elizabeth) who just happen to be part of an aristocratic vampire cult. Without a doubt, Fascination is one of Rollin’s dreamy and seductive best.

Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.

Nitehawk Naughties goes on the trip of a lifetime to Bangkok with EMMANUELLE. 

Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland! Plus, The Strand will be on hand to sell a curated selection of erotic before the screening!

THE PORN: EMMANUELLE (Un film de Just Jaeckin)

This debut film by photographer Just Jaeckin, Emmanuelle explicitly details the sexual awakening of a young model (Sylvia Kristel) that unfolds when she travels to meet her French diplomat husband in Bangkok. With an intent to cure Emmanuelle (and presumably society too) of the predilection to associate sex with love, the film explores a very open relationship she has with her husband, Jean, and her new friend, Marie-Anne, as each introduces new lovers, both men and women, into the equation in increasingly intense measures. This soft-core porn is fairly faithful to the novel Emmanuelle on which it’s based and it rides the wave of the rise of hardcore pornography and erotic films like Last Tango in Paris that were popular amongst mainstream audiences in the early 1970s. It’s the spawn of numerous sequels but none seem to match the Je ne sais quoi of the original.

Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.

Starring: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret-Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle

We love you so much, we could eat you. In Claire Denis’ carnal cannibal film Trouble Every Day, American couple Dr. Shane Brown and June go to Paris under the ruse of a honeymoon. In reality, Dr. Brown is really on the hunt for a neuroscientist and his wife, Coré, a woman he was once obsessed with and who suffer from the same malady (read: cannibalism). Coré is imprisoned in her house to prevent eating sprees but chance encounter with the outside world violently penetrates her realm. This unfortunate turn of events triggers an event so cataclysmic that it just might lead to Shane’s chance for a normal life. Love, desire, and hunger. Sexual cannibalism is complicated.

Nitehawk Nasties has a reservation waiting for you at the exclusive BLOOD DINER (a 35mm presentation).

Service is a real killer for the ladies who get into the Namtut Brothers’ wildy popular restaurant. This black comedy horror, with a distinct 1980s B-movie flavor, is a loose sequel to Herschell Gordon Lewis’s infamous cannibal “classic” Blood Feast (1967) and, if you’re a cannibal film connoisseur, you’ll note the similarities. After resurrecting their serial-killer uncle from the grave, restauranteurs Michael and George Tutman takes orders from his head, housed in a mason jar, to bring back the Ancient Lumerian goddess, Sheetar. To achieve that, they have to collect various body parts from immoral women and find a virgin for the goddess to eat. But with two mismatched detectives on the case, will the blood buffet might be a bust. Bone-appetite!

Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Nasties I EAT CANNIBALS program.

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present a screening of CHRISTMAS, AGAIN. Q&A with director Charles Poekel!

Christmas, Again screens at Nitehawk leading up to the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards for which director Charles Poekel is nominated for the prestigious John Cassavetes Award.

For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. Devoid of any holiday spirit, he struggles to stay awake during the long, chilly nights in his trailer, while the daytime traffic keeps him from getting any real rest. As he slowly spirals into despair, he comes to the aid of a mysterious young woman in the park. Her warming presence, matched with some colorful customers, help rescue him from self-destruction.

Local Color is in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival.

ART SEEN presents brunch screenings of TROUBLEMAKERS, the documentary that unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. 

Troublemakers features a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest. Today these works remain impressive not only for the sheer audacity of their makers but also for their out-sized ambitions to break free from traditional norms. The film casts these artists in a heroic light, which is exactly how they saw themselves. Iconoclasts who changed the landscape of art forever, these revolutionary, antagonistic creatives risked their careers on radical artistic change and experimentation, and took on the establishment to produce art on their own terms. The film includes rare footage and interviews which unveil the enigmatic lives and careers of storied artists Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria (The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer (Double Negative); a headstrong troika that established the genre. As the film makes clear, in making works that can never be possessed as an object in a gallery, these troublemakers stand in marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today.

Using original footage produced with helicopters and rare re-mastered vintage footage from the period, Crump’s cinematic journey takes viewers on a thrill ride through the most significant land art sites in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, an immersive and physically transportive experience that movie goers will not forget.

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR presents a one nite screening of the doc about basketball player, Lloyd Daniels (aka Swee Pea). Q&A with director Benjamin May.

Nicknamed for the son of the legendary cartoon character Popeye, Lloyd Daniels was one of the top college basketball recruits of the late 1980s, playing at five high schools and Mt. San Antonio Junior College before the University of Nevada Las Vegas won a massive recruiting battle to have him join the Runin Rebels and legendary coach Jerry Tarkanian. Before he was able to play a single game at UNLV, he was arrested for cocaine possession, ending his time at UNLV before it began. Later shot three times in the chest at age 21 over an argument about an $8 dollar bag of cocaine, the man christened as the best  high school player to come out of New York since Kareem Abdul Jabbar as well as the heir apparent to Magic Johnson was thought by many to have had a career end before it started, when in reality his story was just beginning.

Nitehawk’s ART SEEN presents a special Live Sound Cinema event: AN EVENING OF EXPANDED CINEMA WITH DRIPPY EYE PROJECTIONS, THE JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW, and music by Worthless.

Stemming from the unique history of the Joshua Light Show that began in the 1970s, this interactive live psychedelic light show features a mix of analog and digital projections (a “psychedelic  slipstream”) along with a live musical performance. The visuals and audio operate in an evolving conversation throughout and each performance is a unique experience suited to the space in which its acted out.

Drippy Eye Projections: Drippy Eye Projections is the psychedelic brainchild of Curtis Godino and Chaz Lord, who have been working together since 2010. With their interactive light shows focusing on live, analog projection, the duo have quickly garnered a reputation for innovation, working with Austin Psych Fest, The New Museum, and a collaborative installation at Kickstarter with Joshua Light Show (with whom Godino moonlights with). All projections and light shows are modulated live, meaning no two shows are exactly alike. Each show evolves with the space, as Drippy Eye works closely with developing individualized shows everywhere from music venues to art exhibits. By adding their own touch of color, Drippy Eye shines a light on the beauty already in nature, and are pushing forward the abstract medium in a hands-on way.

The Joshua Light Show: Today, the structure of the Joshua Light Show differs little from the original of almost 45 years ago. At the time, it was Janis Joplin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix and The Grateful Dead for example, whose jams were driven by the psychedelic slipstream of so-called “liquid lights” – projections of permutating colored oils that conjured magical morphing shapes. White’s appointment as light show resident at concerts in New York’s legendary Fillmore East was followed by engagements in Woodstock, Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. In early 2000, the renaissance of the legendary light show finally began, launched this time in the art world. White has worked on exhibitions for the Tate Liverpool, the Centre Pompidou, the Whitney Museum, MOCA and other venues. He also began to team up with other artists, to add more complexity to the show and further develop the basic analog ideas using digital techniques.

Worthless: There are perhaps few bands in existence with a moniker that carries as much of a misnomer as does Worthless, a band whose every release chips away at the validity of their name. Worthless is a constantly evolving musical project that explores as much as they possibly can.