Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a very special screening of HIGH-RISE with the director Ben Wheatley!

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.

On Demand, Amazon Video and on iTunes April 28. In theatres May 13.

Celebrate Administrative Assistant’s Day here at Nitehawk with our favorite WORKING GIRL!

Mike Nichols’ witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle stars Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill, an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss (Sigourney Weaver) Breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker (Harrison Ford) that will either take her straight to the top – or finish her off for good.

Have a DAZED AND CONFUSED FILM FEAST with your buds Nitehawk and Lagunitas that you’ll never forget (if only you could remember).

Anniversary Note: Nitehawk’s FILM FEASTS was first served in October 2012 with a screening of Apocalypse Now with Sixpoint Brewery. Dazed and Confused marks the fourth time we’ve collaborated with Lagunitas Brewing Company.

It’s the last day of school in the summer of ’76, and the kids of Lee High school are busting loose. Like most high school kids, they’re a cliquey bunch – there’s the jocks, the burnouts, the geeks, the mean girls, the freshmen, the gearheads – but if there’s one thing that unifies the lot of them, it’s the need for some good ol’ worthwhile visceral experience. As the long Texas night settles in, the kids bounce from a busted house party, to a pool hall, to a field-kegger for the ages all while debating life’s immortal questions: Who am I? When will I get out of this podunk town? Where’s the beer?

As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

MENU

WAKE ‘N’ BAKE
breakfast Sausage, sunny side up egg, tickler cheddar, baked puff pastry
Beer pairing – Lagunitas IPA

FRESHMAN PIGGIES
pigs in a blanket, ketchup, yellow mustard
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Sucks

LOW RIDER JOINT
Texas style taquito, braised chicken, cotija cheese, dill weed, smoked tomato salsa
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Little Sumptin’

TOP NOTCH BURGER
pickled jalapeños, queso, baby arugula, Martin’s Roll, “soggy” salt and vinegar fries
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Ultra-Mega-Mondo-Red Ale

PARTY AT THE MOONTOWER
oatmeal and chocolate Moon”Tower” Pie
Beer pairing – Lagunitas Censored

Menu items subject to change, no substitutions.

Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy

Edgar Wright’s dark-romantic-comedy Shaun of the Dead is a lively contemporary contribution to the zombie genre with its comment on society’s preoccupation with being, well, preoccupied. Two thirty-something losers, Shaun and Ed, don’t notice the signs that a zombie outbreak has hit London until one (their roommate) walks into the living room. For the first time in their lives, the slackers take some initiative by rescuing friends and family while Shaun also tries to prove to his estranged girlfriend he has more than just a desire to sit at the pub all day. A trope of zombie films is that the living dead and the living return to the places most familiar so you know where this ends…with a pint!

Starring: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine

In 2027 women have inexplicably become infertile and the world is in a steady, chaotic decline. Set in London, Children of Men shows the grittiness and violence that emerges from society knowing there isn’t a future. In this realistic imagining of the world’s end, all hope seems to be lost. But, eighteen years since the last baby was born, a disillusioned bureaucrat becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover to escort a young pregnant woman out of England as quickly as possible. In a thrilling race against time, he will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for…new life.

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson

An experiment in anger unleashes a deadly rage on London after an infected chimpanzee escapes its medical lab. 28 day later, a bike messenger named Jim wakes up from a coma alone in a hospital and enters a deserted post-apocalyptic England. He meets a group of survivors and joins them in the perilous search of a safe place to live while also trying to adjust to how the world has drastically changed. 28 Days Later ushered in a zombie film into the twentieth century and even though Danny Boyle states that the film is not about zombies, the film’s allegorical narrative comments on society, trust, and the tenuous balance between order and chaos as much as the work of George A. Romero.

London turns into a wasteland of objects after the bomb in Richard Lester’s THE BED SITTING ROOM. Presented in 35mm!

Richard Lester’s surrealist farce The Bed Sitting Room is unlike any other post-apocalyptic film you’ll ever experience. Showing a landscape of a post-nuclear UK, the film focuses on the remaining few people surviving strangely in London after the shortest war in history. Resorting to the old ways – riding the Tube, making BBC broadcasts, producing electricity, maintaining the monarch – looks more like a foreign future rather than a familiar past. And in their ever-changing world there becomes one unexpected more shift…some of them start turning into objects and animals! A mixture of Buñuel and Monty Python, The Bed Sitting Room is sincerely as funny and strange as the end of the world can get.

Part of Nitehawk’s May THE WASTE LAND brunch and midnite series.

Cross over the border into the wasteland of Scotland where a viral outbreak ushers in the dark age of DOOMSDAY.

In 2008 a viral outbreak called the Reaper Virus hit Scotland so badly that the country was quarantined off from neighboring England. Twenty-five years later, Eden Sinclair, who was one of the last to escape as a little girl, leads a team back into the hot zone to find the counteragent because the virus has re-emerged in London. Wandering through the wasteland of a once familiar Scotland, they discover that contamination is the least of the worries. Glasgow is now home to a clan of feral survivors whom Eden and her team battle to survive. A little Mad Max, a little 28 Days Later, Doomsday goes in some surprisingly violent, gory, and humorous directions as it deals with class structures, border control, and human nature.

Part of Nitehawk’s May THE WASTE LAND brunch and midnite series.

Nitehawk honors the life of Phife Dawg with special midnite screenings of Michael Rapaport’s documentary BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST.

Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as A TRIBE CALLED QUEST have kept a generation hungry for more of their groundbreaking music since their much publicized breakup in 1998. Acclaimed actor Michael Rapaport documents the inner workings and behind the scenes drama that follows the band to this day, and explores what’s next for what many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap in his feature directorial debut, BEATS RHYMES & LIFE: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest.

A BIGGER SPLASH is a sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock and roll, under the Mediterranean sun.

In A Bigger Splash, rock legend Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry (Ralph Fiennes) unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson)and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him an A-bomb blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue.