Complimentary cocktails and small bites are available in our downstairs bar beginning at 8:30pm. Guests can then take the cocktails up to the theaters when seating begins!
Come see how New Yorkers rediscovered their Manhattans at the premiere screening of the documentary Spirit Guides: The Return of Craft Bartending in New York at Nitehawk.
The event at Nitehawk includes a pre-screening reception and guest bartenders (members of the cast) who will be mixing up signature cocktails for guests before and during the screening. There will also be a Q&A with the director and members of the cast like Q&A panelist: Julie Reiner (Clover Club, Flatiron Lounge), Jim Meehan (PDT), Jesse White (Director of Spirit Guides), as well as an after-party with cocktails (by more guest bartenders!) with small bites.
Shot at some of the most exclusive bars in New York, Spirit Guides: The Return of Craft Bartending features commentary from the industry’s most respected bartenders including Dale DeGroff, Julie Reiner, Audrey Saunders, Jim Meehan, and Brian Miller. Experience how a small group of bartenders rediscovered the lost history of classic cocktails, and how a new generation of bartenders is using this history to define the role of bartending today.
Guest Bartenders:
Meaghan Dorman (Raines Law Room and Lantern’s Keep)
Rob Krueger (Employees Only, Extra Fancy)
Eryn Reece (Death + Co., Mayahuel)
Jim Kearns (Prime Meats)
Joaquin Simo (Pouring Ribbons)
Lynnette Marrero (co-founder Speed Rack)
This is but one of the many tempting and titillating events of the 2013 Manhattan Cocktail Classic, taking place May 17 to May 21 in and around New York City. For a complete list of all the fabulous parties, pairings, seminars, and soirées taking place, and to snag tickets, go to www.manhattancocktailclassic.com.
Nitehawk Cinema and Noisey present MUSIC DRIVEN, a new monthly music-centric film series. The debut screening is A Skin Too Few: the Days of Nick Drake featuring an introduction by Joe Boyd, the legendary American record producer who discovered Nick Drake.
A Skin Too Few: the Days of Nick Drake is a mostly chronological study of the life of musician Nick Drake (1948 – 1974) as told through the his family and friends. Eleven recordings featuring his quiet folk style are the film’s soundtrack as we see where he lived and died at the young age of 26.
Joe Boyd, Nick Drake’s discoverer and producer introduces a rare US screening of the film acclaimed as the best ever made about the mysterious figure of Nick Drake, A Skin Too Few. Boyd will also provide a sneak preview of his forthcoming tribute album “Way To Blue” (which features Lisa Hannigan, Green Gartside, Teddy Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan, Danny Thompson and many others.) He will also discuss his work with Nick Drake and read from the Drake chapters in “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s.” A special guest will sing a Nick Drake song and there will be a short Q&A between Joe Boyd and Noisey Editor, Ben Shapiro.
Fake psychics, a family inheritance, forced adoption, faked deaths, jewelry, automobiles, twists, turns, blondes, suspense, and of course…murder.
While somewhat light-hearted, Family Plot is still a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock so revealing too much of the plot defeats the whole purpose of experiencing it in the cinema. Still, we will say that Karen Black stars as Fran, part of a kidnapping and jewelry heist duo, who winds up involved in a plot to receive a family inheritance initiated by a faux-psychic/con-artist. As Hitchcock does so well, characters and plots intertwine, providing revealing clues to the audience while the people on-screen still solve the mystery and get the money. Plus, Karen Black personifies the ultimate Hitchcock woman by wearing a blond wig.
Part of The Works: Karen Black retrospective series.
God, the Devil, and a man’s mortal soul. F.W. Murnau’s silent film Faust will be feature an original live score by Gersh/Reed.
Faust is a hauntingly beautiful piece of early silent cinema as only F.W. Murnau could create. Mephisto is a demon who bets an Archangel that if he can corrupt the soul of a righteous man then the Devil will have dominion over Earth. Target: the old alchemist Faust. So, Mephisto sends a deadly plague into Faust’s town who, when he is unable to stop the spread of death, burns many books, including a bible. Needless to say, trickery is involved, souls are sold, and hearts are stolen at an Easter church service but the question is…who actually wins the wager?
Notably, this is F.W. Murnau’s last German film before his relocated to Hollywood.
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.
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
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.
Starring: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towlers
When we meet Henry (Michael Rooker) he has left carnage in his wake – piles of bodies in all forms, though often female. Landing in Chicago, he moves in with ex-prison buddy Otis (Tom Towles), whose sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) is also seeking shelter, escaping her abusive husband. Otis easily follows the violence that Henry unleashes, with Becky catching only the charming side of Henry.
Decades after its release, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer remains a shocker, grimy and matter-of-fact in its depiction of a psychopath who kills just as easily as he might eat a meal. The film also introduced the world to Michael Rooker, an intense presence who embodies Henry with a simmering rage.
Come watch The Big Game 2013 on the Big Screen at Nitehawk as the Baltimore Ravens battle the San Francisco 49ers 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 $25 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 House Made Hot Wings and will be featuring beer specials from the region of each team. To cap it all off, the Puppy Bowl with its saucy Halftime Kitten Show plays in the lobby.
Go team!
Starring: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Written and directed by visionary Leos Carax, Holy Motors is a startlingly unique meld of monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, and anime. Spend a few hours with Monsieur Oscar in the city of lights as he transforms into multiple characters – assassin, beggar, family man – on a series of mysterious appointments. Accompanied only by his blond driver Celine, he is in pursuit of the beautiful gesture, the mysterious driving force, the women and the ghosts of past lives.
