Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy.
Michael Winterbottom’s largely improvised 2010 film, The Trip, took comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon—or semifictionalized versions thereof—on a restaurant tour around northern England. In this witty and incisive follow-up, Winterbottom reunites the pair for a new culinary road trip, retracing the steps of the Romantic poets’ grand tour of Italy and indulging in some sparkling banter and impersonation-offs. Rewhetting our palates from the earlier film, the characters enjoy mouthwatering meals in gorgeous settings from Liguria to Capri while riffing on subjects as varied as Batman’s vocal register, the artistic merits of “Jagged Little Pill,” and, of course, the virtue of sequels.
Winterbottom trains his camera to capture the idyllic Italian landscape and the gastronomic treasures being prepared and consumed while keeping the film centered on the crackling chemistry between the two leads. The Trip to Italy effortlessly melds the brilliant comic interplay between Coogan and Brydon into quieter moments of self-reflection, letting audiences into their insightful ruminations on the nuances of friendship and the juggling of family and career. The result is a biting portrait of modern-day masculinity.
Get into the Halloween spirit with Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presentation of the silent horror classic VAMPYR with a live score performed by BLACK LODGE.
With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result—concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris—is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares. – Criterion
Providing the live score to Metropolis is Black Lodge, a collective of musicians led by guitarist/composer Geoff Gersh, who re-score films then perform live to them.
Also part of our upcoming October FINAL GIRL series that looks at the central role of women in horror film.
Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
Nitehawk Cinema & Tribeca Film Institute Summer Documentary Series present a film about magical deception, AN HONEST LIAR.
Q&A following the screening with Director/Producer Justin Weinstein, moderated by Cara Cusumano (Programmer, Tribeca Film Festival). Introduction by John Woods (Cinema Director/Bookings, Nitehawk Cinema).
For the last half-century, James “The Amazing” Randi has entertained millions of people around the world with his remarkable feats of magic, escape and trickery. Schooled in the techniques of deception, Randi saw his beloved magician’s tricks being used by faith healers, fortune-tellers, and psychics — not for entertainment, but to steal money from innocent people and destroy lives. Enraged by this, he dedicated his life to exposing those frauds, and would do so with the wit and style of the great showman that he is.
AN HONEST LIAR is a film about deception, told through Randi’s life and acts using never-before-seen historical footage and many of the original people involved. The film also follows Randi and his partner through this latest dramatic – and potentially devastating – twist in their lives. With appearances by Adam Savage, Penn & Teller, Bill Nye, Alice Cooper and others, AN HONEST LIAR is an exciting and thought-provoking film: part detective-story, part biography, and a bit of a magic act itself.
An Honest Liar screens as part of a new initiative by Tribeca Film Institute and Nitehawk Cinema that presents a curated series of documentaries from the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. More information can be found here.
Nitehawk Cinema & Tribeca Film Institute Summer Documentary Series present the unique story of an art forger in ART AND CRAFT.
Q&A following the screening with Directors Jennifer Grausman and Sam Cullman along with Co-director Mark Becker, moderated by Caryn Coleman (Senior Film Programmer, Nitehawk Cinema). Introduction by Cara Cusumano (Programmer, Tribeca Film Festival).
Mark Landis has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods that includes 15th Century Icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney. And while the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market, Landis isn’t in it for money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, a grieving executor of a family member’s will, and most recently as a Jesuit priest, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list of institutions across the United States. But after duping Matthew Leininger, a tenacious registrar who ultimately discovers the decades-long ruse and sets out to expose his philanthropic escapades to the art world, Landis must confront his own legacy and a chorus of museum professionals clamoring for him to stop.
Art and Craft screens as part of a new initiative by Tribeca Film Institute and Nitehawk Cinema that presents a curated series of documentaries from the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. More information can be found here.
A doctor fights against his town’s alien invasion in the 1956 science-fiction classic, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
The population of a small town is being taken over by emotionless alien doubles and Dr. Miles Bennell knows it. But these dopplegangers are sophisticated enough to answer all questions asked by the curious doctor. So he, along with Becky Driscoll, becomes determined to seek out the cause of this bizarre phenomenon even at the risk of seeming insane. As sci-fi does best, Invasion of the Body Snatchers comments on the era of its time by being a warning against communism or as a metaphor for totalitarian structures.
Part of Nitehawk’s A REASONABLE LENGTH August brunch series.
Stolen identity and blackmail abound in Edgar G. Ulmer’s quintessential noir classic, DETOUR.
A fast-talker loner club performer, a mysterious death, and a black-mailing dame…you can’t get more film noir than that. The best of genre, “King of the B’s” director Edgar G. Ulmer takes us cross country from New York to Los Angeles along with nightclub pianist as Al Roberts hitchhikes to visit his girlfriend. But after the driver he’s with suddenly dies, Roberts takes on his identity in order to avoid suspicion with the police. From that point, he only plunges deeper trouble with the law and the ladies.
Part of Nitehawk’s A REASONABLE LENGTH August brunch series.
ART SEEN celebrates the Alec Guinness centennial with THE HORSE’S MOUTH! Screening beforehand is frieze video: Cocteau in Soho.
Based on Joyce Cary’s classic novel and written for the screen by Alec Guinness, The Horse’s Mouth brilliantly shows the struggle of artistic creation and how artistic integrity is often mixed with insanity. British painter Gulley Jimson is hell bent on doing things his own way, often to the detriment of his well being and relationships. Frustratingly, most of his artistic visions seem unfulfilled in his paintings until one day he discovers the public wall in which his work can be realized. Criterion says that Guinness “transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures” as he portrays the scruffy, grumpy and lovable Gulley. A comedic and sincere must see!
ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
Roger Corman shows that the art world can be a scary place in Nitehawk’s ART SEEN 35mm presentation of A BUCKET A BLOOD.
Life is an obscure hobo bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.
A Bucket of Blood is a hilarious poke at the ridiculousness of the art world as only Roger Corman can deliver. Walter Paisley (“That Guy” Dick Miller) is a frustrated and untalented artist working as a waiter in an artist-filled beatnik cafe. One day, after accidentally stabbing his neighbor’s cat, he discovers a way to become a successful sculptor…cover his kills in clay! Through a series of bumbling mishaps and then intentional murders, dear Walter realizes that he must do anything in his power to keep the admiration and the girl he’s desired for so long. A true art-comedy-horror film, A Bucket of Blood shows that inside every artist is, indeed, a mad man!
ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau
Travel across the country with New York advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill who finds himself on a wild chase filled with murder and intrigue as a crime syndicate mistakenly believes he has the secret microfilm. Add in a sexy blond double (or triple) agent and a stunning score by Bernard Herrmann and you have the makings of classic Hitchcock, his ultimate caper film of mistaken identity starring Cary Grant.
At long last, THE DEUCE takes you to the 42nd Street palace of sword-and-sandal rejects and chop-socky imports: the Empire Theater! This month, guest curator DAN HALSTED (of Portland’s Hollywood Theatre) sends over his very own print (the only one in existence!) of Joseph Kuo’s classic THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING, aka NINJA CHECKMATE!
Plus: The famous ‘DEUCE Raffle’ and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
The original ‘Ghostface Killah’is on the loose!! A vicious villain with an unstoppable five element technique, Ghostface is killing off all his old rivals. Meanwhile, a young student studying kung fu is taken under the wing of an old chess master. The basics of chess prove to be the same as the basics of fighting, and eventually our heroes must fight Ghostface Killer, who verbally insults his opponents as he annihilates them. A true classic (and obvious favorite of the Wu Tang Clan), directed by Joseph Kuo, Chess Boxing will be presented on the only known 35mm print!
Joseph Kuo directed dozens of low-budget kung fu films in his native Taiwan, with minimal sets and bad wigs off-set by creative plots and exceptional fight choreography. In the 1970’s and early-80’s, Kuo crafted a number of bone-shattering martial arts classics, including Seven Grandmasters, The 18 Bronzemen, Born Invincible and his masterpiece, The Mystery of Chess Boxing.
Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.
