Starring: Gael García Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps
Visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly… reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Chloë Sevigny is a wealthy New Yorker reevaluating the meaning of her life in Woody Allen’s MELINDA AND MELINDA.
A 35mm presentation.
Traversing his classic theme, Woody Allen intertwines two alternating stories of comedy and tragedy in Melinda and Melinda. The parallel stories are introduced in the film’s opening scene in which four sophisticated New Yorkers enjoy a dinner out on a rainy night. An anecdote provokes a discussion between writers Max and Sy about the dual nature of human drama, symbolized by the comedy/tragedy mask of theater. Ultimately a comic tale unfolds, pitted against a more dramatic version of itself-both centered around a somewhat enigmatic woman named Melinda. Chloe Sevigny’s character is part of the tragic storyline where a neurotic Melinda comes to stay with her and makes her reevaluate her own life.
Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: CHLOË SEVIGNY.
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Nitehawk has teamed up with Nom Wah Nolita & Lagunitas to make the John Carpenter classic BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA even tastier with our special FILM FEAST presentation.
Kurt Russell stars as the wisecracking truck driver Jack Burton in John Carpenter’s ever-classic, Big Trouble in Little China. As an all-American truck driver, Burton enters into a whole different world when he picks up his pal’s Wang Chi’s fiancee from the airport. Bubbling up from the depths of Chinatown is the evil and body-less Lo Pan who must marry a girl with emerald green eyes in order to regain his form…and guess who has green eyes? Thus commences an epic mystical underworld battle between good and evil complete with some of the best lines lines in film…When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”
As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!
MENU
FIRST COURSE
Chinatown Dumplings – steamed chicken and shrimp siu mai | soy vinegar dipping sauce
Small Beginnings – Lagunitas IPA
SECOND COURSE
Pork Chop Lost In An Alley – Fried Pork Chop Sandwich – Taiwanese-style fried pork chop | pickled daikon | sweetened kewpie mayo | potato roll
Henry Swanson’s My Name, And Excitement’s My Game – Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale
THIRD COURSE
Lo Mein of Upside Down Sinner – Fiery Dank Shank Lo Mein – soy braised beef shank | chinese broccoli | pickled kohlrabi | fried shallots | scallion and cilantro
Elevator Hot Box – Lagunitas Waldo Triple IPA
FOURTH COURSE
Huge Buzz veggie broth w/ coconut ginger froth; vegan based broth | coconut ginger froth | scallion and cilantro
Time for a Little Medicine – Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Wheat Ale
FIFTH COURSE
Green Eyes – Matcha Lotus Sesame Balls – fried matcha sesame balls | sweetened lotus paste filling
Things Go Sour For Lo Pan – Lagunitas Aunt Sally Sour Ale
Nitehawk presents a special one night screening of Asghar Farhadi’s Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, THE SALESMAN.
We stand in solidarity with Asghar Farhadi, who has chosen not to attend the Academy Awards ceremony this year due to Trump’s travel ban for those from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen). As part, Nitehawk will be donating a portion of each ticket sold to the ACLU. Read Farhadi’s statement here.
About The Salesman: After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. However, once relocated, a sudden eruption of violence linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life, creating a simmering tension between husband and wife.
Go big or go extinct! Prepare yourself for Guillermo Del Toro’s dazzling smash fest PACIFIC RIM.
When a massive earthquake cracks open the seafloor, gigantic monsters called Kaiju come crawling from the depths and lay waste to cities and armies across the globe. On the brink of destruction, humanity joins forces and creates the Jaeger Corps, an international army of massive nuclear-powered robots controlled by two psychically linked pilots to take the fight to the Kaiju. Cocky with their technical marvels, mankind begins treating Kaiju fighting like a global sport – until, suddenly, a new breed of larger, even more dangerous Kaiju, start ripping through Jaegers like wet paper dolls. Teetering on the brink of defeat, the last remaining Jaeger pilots rally for one last strike at the source of the Kaiju: the swirling vortex on the ocean floor.
Pacific Rim is as close to live-action anime you can get — gloriously melodramatic, gigantic in scope and spectacularly designed. Aussie star Charlie Hunnam’s American accent may be pretty terrible, but the film’s diverse cast and global stakes are an early example of Hollywood’s pivot towards international dollars in the 21st century.
Part of Nitehawk’s March LARGE AND IN CHARGE screening series.
Kong is back and ready for action (of the sexy kind)!
A 35mm Presentation. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive
Remember how at the end of the 70’s King Kong, Kong falls off of the top of the World Trade Center after getting lit up by Army helicopters? Turns out he’s okay – just in a coma, and the dude needs a new ticker something quick plus a blood transfusion to boot. Fortunately for Kong, an adventurer happens upon another giant ape deep in the forest – this one a female – which gives Dr. Linda Hamilton the blood that she needs to perform giant monkey open heart surgery. Good news is, the surgery is a success and Kong goes back to his old self; bad news is, our man catches wind of the captured female and raises Hell to get at her.
Spectacularly silly and surprisingly rife with carnage, King Kong Lives is the giant ape love story you didn’t know you needed in your life.
Part of Nitehawk’s March LARGE AND IN CHARGE screening series.
Hoop Dreams director Steve James tackles traumatic brain injuries as public health crisis in HEAD GAMES.
Christopher Nowinski was the first WWE professional wrestler to be a Harvard graduate — they made a big deal out of it, even calling him Harvard Chris when in the ring. After a brief career in the squared circle, Nowinski retired from the WWE when he began suffering with post-concussion syndrome. In the years since leaving WWE, Nowinski self-published Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis, chronicling his own struggles with concussions as well as those by other prominent professional athletes.
The book caught the attention of Hoop Dreams director Steve James, who expanded Nowinski’s research in his own feature length documentary. Cutting across a wide range of contact sports – both professional and amateur, male and female – James highlights the pressure that athletes feel to power through injury, the devastating effect of repeated trauma on developing brains, and the long term physical cost of chronic traumatic brain injury.
Part of Nitehawk’s February A FOOTBALL PROGRAM brunch series.
You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now under FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
Odessa, Texas, like countless American towns, is a tense, economically downtrodden, racially divided community — difficult to escape from and paralyzing to live within. The town copes by washing out their woes under the bright lights of the High School football stadium, where the Permian High School Panthers run roughshod over more well heeled competition. Leading the Panthers’ charge to state is coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), whose job and family’s well-being relies on his talented, but troubled team making the playoffs. He’s got an inconsistent quarterback, a star player on the disabled list, and a full-back whose alcoholic father lives through his son’s successes and failures.
Part of Nitehawk’s February A FOOTBALL PROGRAM brunch series.
Potter’s fifth year at Hogwarts School sees a defense against evil in the David Yates’ directed HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX.
J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” was published in 2003.
The Devil’s got a name and it’s Lord Voldemort! The Dark Lord has returned to the flesh and has begun rallying troops. Trouble is, none of the bureaucrats at the Ministry of Magic believe young Harry Potter about Voldemort’s return. To quell the growing dissent from Hogwarts, the Ministry puts the putrid, pink Dolores Umbridge at the helm of the school, who cracks down on students and faculty and outlaws all lessons on Defense Against the Dark Arts. With his host of mentors imprisoned or in hiding, it’s up to Harry to form a secret society to fight against the growing threat of Voldemort and learn a few new tricks under Umbridge’s upturned nose. Stupefy!
Part of Nitehawk’s Booze & Books HARRY POTTER 20 brunch series.
Harry Potter finds himself in dangerous tournament in the Mike Newell directed HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE.
J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was published in 2000.
Dark clouds gather as Harry Potter enters his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Though his lightning shaped scar burns with the growing presence of the Dark Lord, Harry has more immediate concerns – his name has been drawn from the Goblet of Fire, a legendary artifact that chooses the contestants in the centennial Tri-Wizard Tournament. Along with three senior wizards, Harry must face three dangerous trials for the glory of his school – and maybe, just maybe, to catch the eye of Ravenclaw seeker Cho Chang. Hormones are pumping and danger is afoot, the Tri-Wizard Tournament is on! Avada Kedavra!
Part of Nitehawk’s Booze & Books HARRY POTTER 20 brunch series.
