Following up on our February presentation of The Rape of Europa, Art Seen presents an unmissable look at one of the art world’s most fascinating controversies in THE ART OF THE STEAL. Playing before the feature is frieze video: Audience Appreciation.
Don Argott’ gripping documentary The Art of the Steal chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation (a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion). In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. More than 50 years after Barnes’ death, a powerful group of moneyed interests went to court for control of the with the intention to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way was a group of Barnes’ former students and his will, which contains strict instructions stating the Foundation should always be an educational institution, and that the paintings may never be removed. While we now know what ultimately happened, witness the still relevant battle between artistic intentions and cultural tourism.
In partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents Fritz Lang’s science-fiction masterpiece Metropolis with a live score by Black Lodge.
Fritz Lang’s silent German Expressionist Science-Fiction masterpiece Metropolis is back at Nitehawk! In a towering dystopic city of the future, society is divided into two classes: one of planners and management, who live high above the Earth in skyscrapers; and one of workers, who live and toil underground, slaves to the whistle of Metropolis’s ten-hour clock. When the wealthy son of the city’s planners falls in love with the underground leader Maria, an attempt is made to overcome the vast divide between the two. Brigitte Helm plays double roles here as the prophet Maria and the “false” Maria, a robot who is sent to destroy the revolution. Note: we will be showing the 2010 restoration version that includes 25 extra minutes not seen since the film’s Berlin debut in 1927!
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.
Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
Nitehawk presents two screenings of RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH: VOL 1 with a Q&A with Director Lloyd Kaufman and cast!
Welcome to Tromaville High School where, unfortunately, the glee club has mutated into a vicious gang of Cretins. Chrissy and Lauren, two innocent lesbian lovers, must fight not only the Cretins, mutants and monsters but also the evil Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate. Can they and Kevin the Wonder Duck save Tromaville High School and the world?
Directed by Lloyd Kaufman, Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Volume 1 is a hilarious and thoughtful sci-fi “Event Film” with themes ripped straight from today’s headlines: the contamination and degradation of the world’s food supply, rampant bullying, and LGBTQ love triumphing over prejudice and violence. The film, a revisiting of Troma’s 1986 Class of Nuke ‘Em High is in the same vein as other classics such as Class of 1984, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, and Carrie, but seen through the unique vision of Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team.
Nitehawk and Noisey present BREADCRUMB TRAIL, a new documentary on the band Slint, for the March MUSIC DRIVEN.
TWO SCREENINGS! MARCH 17 SCREENING includes Q&A with director Lance Bangs, David Pajo, and David Grubbs! Extra screening on MARCH 18 with giveaways (no guests)!
Feature length documentary about the band Slint and the Louisville music culture they emerged from. Throughout the 1980s, a group of friends in Louisville, Kentucky grew up forming bands, breaking up, and reforming in different configurations. They were playing hardcore shows at ages 10-12, touring with Samhain as 14 year olds, recording for Homestead as Squirelbait at age 15, then formed Slint in their late teens and recorded the classic album Spiderland before they were 21. They broke up before the album’s release, giving no interviews and vanishing into their own shadows. Two decades passed as filmmaker Lance Bangs assembled unseen footage of the teenagers writing and arranging Spiderland as well as the first on camera interviews with the band members and their contemporaries trying to decipher what they had been through. Featuring Slint, Steve Albini, Ian Mackaye, David Grubbs, David Yow, James Murphy and archival material from Will Oldham.
Part of Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN series. In partnership with Noisey. Sponsored by Absolut.
Starring: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Michael Smiley, Ryan Pope, Sara Dee
England during the Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O’Neil and Cutler. O’Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
For One Nite Only, Nitehawk hosts the annual TITMOUSE 5-SECOND ANIMATION NIGHT! Introduction by Titmouse founder Chris Prynoski.
Animation studio Titmouse Inc. produces such programs as Disney XD’s “Motorcity” and “Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja,” and Adult Swim’s “The Venture Bros.,” “Superjail,” “China, IL,” “Metalocalypse” and “Black Dynamite.” They recently collaborated on the video game depicted in HER.
5-Second Day is an annual tradition that gives Titmouse animators the chance to bring to life whatever strange/beautiful/disturbing/funny ideas they’ve had all year as a short-format cartoon. Tonight the studio opens up the screening of these masterpieces to friends, neighbors and fans, along with a selection of rarities from the studio’s vaults.
For One Nite Only, Nitehawk presents HOW TO BE A MAN with Gavin McInnes (Actor, Co-Writer), Chadd Harbold (Director, Co-Writer) and Bryan Gaynor (Co-Writer) in person for a post-screening Q&A.
A real genius self-diagnoses cancer, and then films a series of instruction videos to leave for his unborn son.
After finding a lump in his man-boob and fearing certain death, Mark (Gavin McInnes), a former comedian, hires the services of Bryan (Liam Aiken), a young, impressionable cameraman, to document important video lessons for Mark’s unborn son. With the help of Bryan, Mark gives his own comical, and often crude interpretation of what it truly means to be a man—like how to fight a bully, how to drink, and how to pick up women. When he almost loses everything important to him, Mark realizes that he is the one with the most to learn.
THE DEUCE takes you to the Liberty Theatre circa 1986, for COMBAT SHOCK, Buddy Giovinazzo’s harrowing debut masterwork for shlockfactory production studio Troma.
Plus: Liberty Theatre lore, prizes and surprises, drink special at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by Jeff, Andy, and Joe! Includes a Q & A by Special Makeup Effects Artist Ed Varuolo!
“Your not looking for a job, you’re waiting for the world to end…” says Veronica Stork’s Cathy Dunlan to Vietnam vet husband Frankie (played by Rick Giovinazzo) who’s PTSD makes Taxi Driver‘s Travis Bickle look like Mickey Mouse. Fifteen years after the war, broken Frankie lives in poverty with his wife and Agent Orange-mutated infant child (played by a $140 puppet), amongst junkies, criminals, and child prostitutes. He’s at his wit’s end to find work until his brutal, uncompromising final act of mercy.
Considered by studio head (and Executive Producer) Lloyd Kaufman to be one of Troma’s true masterpieces, Director Buddy Giovinazzo’s (brother of Rick) debut feature is a terrifying, heartbreaking depiction of Reagan-era urban blight and modern day shell-shocked misery. War is Hell, but so is Staten Island, in the movie about which Videohound said, “you won’t find a more depressing film outside an art-house cinema.”
FINAL WEEKS: playing at Nitehawk until March 27! The Best Foreign Language Film Academy winner, THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA BRANDE BELLEZZ) screens at Nitehawk.
Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
A beautiful mix of visuals shot in 16mm, Super 8 and video melds with sync and non-sync soundtracks by the legendary Washington D.C. band Fugazi in the stunning documentary, Instrument. Wholly original, you wouldn’t expect Fugazi to do anything traditional and their documentary is no exception. Covering a ten year period, from 1987-1997, Instrument provides access to stage shows, rehearsals, recording sessions and interviews with fans (and some who aren’t). It extends beyond a portrait of a band and bleeds into a specific time period in music that is so close to many hearts. Named after one of the songs on their 1993 album In On the Kill Taker, the documentary also spawned one of the best soundtracks in history.
