Ride along with two New York cops as they tail heroin suspects in Nitehawk and Four Horsemen’s special Film Feast presentation of THE FRENCH CONNECTION.
A tale of crime, cops, and New York is best served with a glass of wine and french inspired cuisine. Based on a true story, William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning thriller The French Connection follows two New York City detectives Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) as they attempt to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover “The French Connection.” But when one of the criminals tried to kill Doyle, he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city limits.
As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!
MENU
DEAD MAN’S BAGUETTE
sheep’s milk ricotta, black mission figs, jambon de Bayonne, grilled baguette
Wine pairing – Sparkling wine with 1/4oz pastis drizzled on top
FRESH OYSTER
Beau Soleil oysters, “Marseilles” mignonette, fleur de sel
Wine pairing – Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence Beatines Rosé 2015
FOUR STAR LUNCH
cote de boeuf, pomme puree, French onion “soup”, gruyere gratinee
Wine pairing – Chateau Saint Anne Bandol Rouge 2011
DIGESTIF
Armagnac-Tenareze 1988
1970 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
vanilla cupcake, surprise Ferrero Rocher, Nutella buttercream, “heroin” sugar baggie
Wine pairing – Vignioble Alain Ignace Muscat Beaumes de Venise Coeur des Vignes 2014
Menu items subject to change, no substitutions.
Patsy darling, it’s ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
Appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. But when they accidentally push Kate Moss into the river Thames at an uber fashionable launch party, Eddy and Patsy become entangled in a media storm surrounding the supermodel’s untimely demise and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
September 8, THE DEUCE backflips to the New Amsterdam on November 16, 1979 for a screening of THE 7 BROTHERS MEET DRACULA, the Hammer Studios / Shaw Brothers co-production, starring Peter Cushing!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Fernet-Branca cocktails featured at the after-party, and music by Maestro Jeff! Presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
THE DEUCE Bozos welcome back guest curator TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK , as we get down-and-dirty with the ultra-rare Spanish shocker SEX & VIOLENCE, a notorious bit of nastiness that should’ve been titled LAST YACHTON THE LEFT!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Fernet-Branca cocktails featured at the after-party, and music by Maestro Jeff! Presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
While vacationing in the Mediterranean, unhappily married perfume magnate Charles (Xabier Elorriaga) and his beautiful wife Andrea (Marina Langner) let two sadistic creeps board their yacht for a party and spend the rest of the film getting the screws put to them until…D’oh! We almost gave away the surprise ending!
Filmed as ENSALADA BAUDELAIRE in the Catalan language by award-winning photographer Leopoldo Pomés, this sadistic slice of Eurosleaze first hit the U.S. in 1979 as ANDREA and sucker-punched audiences and critics expecting another boring EMMANUELLE imitation (Guess they missed those giant manacles on the posters and newspaper ads, huh?)…
When it finally reached the New York City area in October 1983 under its more familiar title, a sub-distributor too embarrassed to put its name on the ads opened it in a half dozen mainstream theaters in a half-assed attempt to attract an arthouse kink audience that no longer existed. A week later it was on the Deuce where it belonged, playing the Selwyn on a double bill with THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN (Yes, that Australian thriller about the fashion model being terrorized by a stalker who drives a Mr. Whippy ice cream truck!). If you look around online you can probably find a copy in Catalan with no English subtitles, but we’ll be showing the extremely rare English-dubbed version that appalled drive-in and grindhouse audiences across the U.S. for four straight years! Don’t miss it!
THE DEUCE invites you once again to Nitehawk Cinema – for our 35th screening …on 35mm!!
For July, it’s a VERY special “Evening with Jonathan Demme” featuring a long-form discussion with the legendary filmmaker that will be followed by a screening of his debut feature CAGED HEAT – which opened at the Harris on October 23, 1974, on a double bill with WOMEN IN CAGES!!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Fernet-Branca cocktails featured at the after-party, and music by Maestro Jeff! Presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Join THE DEUCE on October 13 for ALICE, SWEET ALICE, which opened at the Lyric Theatre on April 3, 1981 as HOLY TERROR – on a double bill with TALES FROM THE CRYPT II (Dynamite re-release of VAULT OF HORROR)!!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Fernet-Branca cocktails featured at the after-party, and music by Maestro Jeff! Presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Steven Soderbergh, Singani 63, and Nitehawk present a very special evening of film, HAYWIRE, and inspired cocktails.
Director Steven Soderbergh will be in conversation with Aaron Goldfarb (novelist and contributor to Esquire and The Daily Beast) following the screening.
Featuring an inspired Singani cocktail menu:
- Essential Element – Singani 63, demerara sugar, Angostura bitters, orange peel
- Government Issue – Singani 63, Dolin Blanc, Campari, Pur Blood Orange Liqueur, fresh grapefruit
- Last Word On The Rocks – Singani 63, Green Chartreuse, Luxardo Maraschino, fresh lime, tiki bitters
Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is a highly trained operative for a government security contractor. Her missions take her to the world’s most dangerous areas. After Mallory successfully frees a hostage journalist, she’s betrayed and left for dead by someone in her own agency. Knowing her survival depends on learning the truth behind the double-cross, Mallory uses her black-ops training to set a trap. But when things go awry, Mallory knows she’ll die unless she can turn the tables on her adversary.
The legendary Singani 63: National Spirit of Bolivia, imported by devotee filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, has a history dating back 500 years but has never made it stateside until now. Singani is made exclusively from the Muscat of Alexandria grapes. Coming from vineyards that average 6,000 feet in elevation, picked at optimal ripeness, the spirit is meticulously distilled to preserve the intense aromatic notes and a remarkably smooth finish. Salut!
Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a screening of DARJEELING LIMITED celebrating the publication of The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads (Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson). Introduction by Matt Zoller Seitz!
Books: Abrams Books will giveaway a few copies of the book during the screening and will sell all of the books in The Wes Anderson Collection in our lobby.
Booze: Inspired cocktail is in the works!
Estranged brothers Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) reunite for a train trip across India. The siblings have not spoken in over a year, ever since their father passed away. Francis is recovering from a motorcycle accident, Peter cannot cope with his wife’s pregnancy, and Jack cannot get over his ex-lover. The brothers fall into old patterns of behavior as Francis reveals the real reason for the reunion: to visit their mother in a Himalayan convent.
Nitehawk’s presents midnite screening of Ben Wheatley’s dystopic vision of the J.G. Ballard novel, HIGH-RISE.
Based on J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel, High-Rise shows Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte, his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder, a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen; and Mr. Royal, the enigmatic architect who designed the building. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
Watch Nitehawk’s HIGH-RISE Q&A with Ben Wheatley on our blog!
The beauty and beauty-obsessed in Los Angeles construct Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film, THE NEON DEMON.
Q&A with director Nicolas Winding Refn following the 9:30pm screening on Friday, June 24.
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. “One morning I woke and realized I was both surrounded and dominated by women. Strangely, a sudden urge was planted in me to make a horror film about vicious beauty. After making DRIVE and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of THE NEON DEMON.” Nicolas Winding Refn, November 2014
