Spend some time with an eccentric family in our children-friendly Halloween screening of THE ADDAMS FAMILY!
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re all together ooky, The Addams Family!
The classic television show of the macabre and wealthy Addams Family gets the big screen treatment in this fun-for-the-whole-family film! Usually mixed up in some sort of dark shenanigans, Gomez, Morticia and the kiddies Wednesday and Pugsley are being fooled that their long-lost Uncle Fester has returned. It’s really a crooked accountant and loan shark using the loan shark’s son to steal their money! Fortunately the Addams Family is far too clever, and strange, to let that happen.
Part of Nitehawk’s kid-friendly Halloween screenings in October.
Nitehawk Cinema presents a special screening of Bennett Miller’s documentary THE CRUISE as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s NYFF Opening Acts series.
Q&A following the screening with director Bennett Miller and Eugene Hernandez, Deputy Director of the Film Society.
Whether you’re an auteurist, a completist, or simply an enthusiast, NYFF Opening Acts takes you deep into the back catalogs of today’s foremost talents to whet your appetite with a sampling of past triumph from these luminaries. So before you see Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher (also director of Moneyball and Capote) at the 52nd New York Film Festival, (September 26–October 12), watch his compelling documentary The Cruise. His 1998 film chronicles the humorously irreverent and painful reflections of Timothy “Speed” Levitch, an eccentric New York City tour bus guide with an archive of beautifully distorted information about the city.
For more information on the series and the New York Film Festival visit Filmlinc.com!
It’s Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World. Party time, Excellent!
What started out as one of Saturday Night Live’s best sketches turned into one of the wackiest and irreverent pop-culture comedy of the 1990s. Penelope’s Spheeris’ film takes our two metal-head buddies, Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey), from their local public access television show to the big time. But with larger-budgets, sleazy executives, and hot rocker girlfriends come bigger problems. Will the two save their show, their friendship AND the girl?!
Part of Nitehawk’s EXCELLENT brunches.
Twenty years ago, two very dumb friends set out on a cross-country adventure together in the Farrelly Brothers’ DUMB AND DUMBER.
Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are well-meaning but super dimwitted friends who travel from their home of Rhode Island across the country to Aspen, Colorado so that they can return a briefcase full of money to its owner. Of course there’s a bigger controversy surrounding the briefcase and its beautiful owner May and the two dumb friends find themselves being pursued by a group of criminals. If only they were smart enough to realize it…
Part of Nitehawk’s 1994 September series.
Nitehawk presents a one weekend only screening of NORTHERN LIGHT. Q&A with filmmakers Nick Bentgen and Lisa Kjerulff and Icarus Films’ Livia Bloom after the Saturday screening!
Set against the backdrop of a town’s annual snowmobile race, Northern Light explores the working class experience in a series of captivating personal stories of recession-era America. The lives of three families change profoundly in the north woods of Michigan, where winters are unforgiving, jobs are hard to come by, and the line between living life and simply surviving is razor-thin. This cinematic, observational documentary explores the American working class experience through character-based storytelling. As racers and their families pin their hopes to a 500 mile-long test of endurance, small triumphs and giant sacrifices are made along the way. Dysfunction and hardship permeate the cold, but this harsh setting is simultaneously the site of community and familial intimacy. Filmed over the course of several years spent with the film’s protagonists, Northern Light is a fresh and vital contribution to the tradition of contemporary American cinéma vérité.
Let Nitehawk be the wind beneath your wings with our special Mother’s Day 35mm presentation of BEACHES!
Did you ever know that you’re my hero? Two young girls from very different backgrounds meet one summer and then embark on a lifelong friendship. Classic sobber Beaches shows the ups-and-downs of CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and Hillary Whitney Essex (Barbara Hersey); ranging from show business success, romantic entanglements, children, and illness. Truly the loves of each others lives, the film shows how these two women deal with each other’s differences to become family. We dare you not to cry!
A frustrated war correspondent finds himself on an unexpected journey after assuming the identity of a deceased arms dealer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s THE PASSENGER. A 35mm presentation!
British/American television journalist David Locke (Jack Nicholson) runs into trouble with making his documentary on post-colonial Africa after being unable to find the rebel fighters involved in Chad’s civil war. Returning to his hotel one day, he finds his new friend Robertson has passed away. Tired of his work and personal life, Locke steals Robertson’s identity for a fresh start but only to find that he was a gunrunner for the rebels. Joining up with architecture student (Maria Schneider), Locke can’t shake his journalistic tendencies as he follows appointment dates in leads from the dead man’s diary. In classic Antonioni’s style, The Passenger shows a lonely despondent figure making his/her way through an expansive landscape in search of the truth.
Part of the Journalists in Film series by VICE News and Nitehawk Cinema.
In THE ABYSS, a diving team’s investigation of a crashed nuclear submarine brings the discovery of an aquatic alien species to the surface. A 35mm presentation!
Winner of the 1990 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (rightfully so as the special effects are gorgeously engrossing), James Cameron’s The Abyss is a gripping, claustrophobic thriller. It begins with a mysterious nuclear submarine crash that brings in a crew of Navy Seals to uncover what caused the accident. Turns out, it was an alien craft deep beneath the sea. So they enter into the abyss (a extremely deep water canyon) encountering not only a formidable new species but the increasingly erratic actions of each other.
Part Nitehawk’s ILM brunch program.
Starting from scratch never tasted so good.
Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what’s next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen — and zest for life and love.
How do you remake a film that never existed? Our June ART SEEN screening is Jamie Shovlin’s ROUGH CUT. Includes an introduction by the director in London via Skype. Also screening is a new version of Darren Banks’ short film, INTERIORS.
Rough Cut, the debut feature from artist Jamie Shovlin, explores the re-making of an exploitation film that never was. At its dark heart is Hiker Meat, an archetypal 1970s slasher movie imagined by Shovlin, complete with hitchhiking heroine, charismatic commune leader and a group of teens who disappear one by one. This tantalising film-within-a-film serves to both deconstruct and pay affectionate homage to the often-maligned exploitation style.
Having created a full screenplay, score and cut-and-paste prototype for Hiker Meat, Shovlin filmed key sections and a full trailer in an intense shoot in the Lake District in summer 2013. Rough Cut contrasts these re-made sequences with on-set footage and insights into the development of Hiker Meat’s script, soundtrack and design, to create a compelling mash-up of self-referencing processes, behind-the-scenes viewpoints and time-honoured slasher tropes.
Rough Cut is a co-commission between Cornerhouse Artist Film and TIFF: Toronto International Film Festival.
ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
