This August THE DEUCE turns up the dog-days-of-Summer heat when we take you to the The Harris Theatre for the high-tension thrill-ride – the acme of NYC actioners: NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER! Co-Presented by DEUCE-buddy and Times Square-centric archivist – Chris Poggiali from TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK!

Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Ex-cop James Brolin goes ballistic and blows his top when a bonkers bozo from the bombed-out Bronx boondocks brazenly (and mistakenly) kidnaps his daughter… on her birthday! His blood a-boil – he’ll bust up every borough to get her back… Floozies and Fro-Yo… ex wives and ex cons… furious cab drivers and demented detectives… joggers and… jugglers?? He’ll tear it all apart! Just look at that poster – he’s tearing it apart!!!

Aka ‘New York Killer’ aka ‘Countdown In Manhattan’ aka ‘New York Connection’ aka ‘Pursued’ – NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER by any name is a bounty of bombastic fun – and a telling take on the politics of the City in its strapped-for-cash troubled times…

Part of Nitehawk’s THE DEUCE Signature Series.

The cat’s out of the bag! This September, THE DEUCE adds salt to the end-of-Summer wound with Sam Peckinpah’s searingly pessimistic 1974 epic of down-Mexico-way madness: BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA! Still playing at the Times Square Theatre circa 1980!

Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Warren Oates’ acme acting achievement as ex-pat bar rat, Bennie, in his one last go-for-broke grab at the Golden Goose: by nabbing the much sought-after and fought-over million dollar worth titular prize! Both a road trip to redemption and a Shakespearean dead-end spiral to damnation – boozy, bleary-eyed, beautiful and morally blurry… with bikers, banditos, bad attitude G-Men…and more fun than a barrelfull of bullets! Dirty, dusty and lusty, a ballad of desperation and the depraved depths to which man will sink just to get ahead… or Aaaaaa head! Tienes muchas moscas!

Part of Nitehawk’s THE DEUCE Signature Series.

A killer’s on the loose at Nitehawk Cinema and he’s serving up a multi-course dinner of fresh meat from The Meat Hook for a special Film Feast presentation of FRIDAY THE 13TH.

Things don’t go so well for the reopening of Camp Crystal Lake as the new counsellors are stalked and slashed…but by whom? As the site for a young boy’s drowning many years earlier, someone or something is none-too-pleased that a new batch of sexually crazed young adults who will be the caretakers of young children. Stemming from tropes established in Italian giallo films like anonymous killer-point-of-view stabs and punishment for sexual activities, Friday the 13th produces one of the most iconic “Final Girls” in horror (Alice Hardy) and has enduringly made teenage activities a frightening cautionary tale.

For our October Film Feast, Nitehawk is teaming up with some folks with blood on their hands, the butchers at The Meat Hook, for a five course meal that’s been stabbed, sliced, and seared like a misbehaving camp counselor.

MENU

“Frank’s Delicatessen Pork Roll Sandwich”
blood pork roll sandwich
Drink pairing: Milk and Honey On The Other Side – milk washed rye whiskey and fresh lemon, orange blossom honey syrup

“Snake Three Ways”
The Meat Hook’s The Cougar, Long Dong Bud, and Lamb Gyro sausages
Drink pairing: Snake Bite and Black – Braven Black Pale Ale, dry English cider, Creme de Mure

“Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”
bacon wrapped Thai shrimp, Devils on horseback, bacon rillette on crostini, The Meat Hook lamb bacon, tomato & bacon lettuce wrap, bacon jam on brioche
Drink pairing: Bloody Bacon – bacon infused Absolut Vodka, smoked house bloody mary mix

“Blackout”
butcher’s cut, roasted mushrooms, potato puree
Drink pairing: Blackout Punch – Bulldog Gin, basil and plum shrub, oleo saccharum, soda water

“Crystal Lake Granita”
coconut water and lime granita
Drink pairing: Water of Death – Death’s Door White Whiskey, Pear Eau de Vie, Lemon Juice, Blanc de Blanc

Click here for more information on The Meat Hook’s new sandwich shop in Brooklyn!

Menu items subject to change, no substitutions.

Nitehawk Cinema’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival’s series on New York filmmakers continues with a special screening of APPLESAUCE. Q&A after the screening with writer/director Onur Tukel!

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?

Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to call in and share their stories.  And tonight, Ron Welz (writer/director Onur Tukel) is ready to share his.  But soon after he confesses on the air, Ron finds a severed foot in his laundry… then a cut off finger in his mail… then worse.  His life begins to unravel and his marriage begins to fall apart.  Someone is tormenting him.  Is it his insolent high school student?  Is it his best friend?  His wife?  In a city like New York, there are eight million suspects and each one could have a bone to pick with someone like Ron. 

Take dark comedy, mix it with noir, add a dash of horror and stir in some melodrama, and you have the recipe for one of the most original and unusual movies of the year.

Part of Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR monthly series with the Tribeca Film Festival that features independent New York filmmakers.

As part of Nitehawk’s September series SHE MADE IT, ART SEEN presents brunch screenings of Miranda July’s directorial debut, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW.

Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s seven-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen- year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls— practicing for their future of romance and marriage.

In July’s modern world, the mundane is transcendent and everyday people become radiant characters who speak their innermost thoughts, act on secret impulses, and experience truthful human moments that at times approach the surreal. They seek together-ness through tortured routes and find redemption in small moments that connect them to someone else on earth.  

Part of Nitehawk’s September SHE MADE IT brunch, midnite, and special event series.

ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze.

Nitehawk’s COUNTRY BRUNCHIN’ presents GAS FOOD LODGING as part of our special “SHE MADE IT” series. A 35mm presentation with a live pre-show serenade by LI’L MO!

Allison Anders’s Gas Food Lodging picks up in a dusty New Mexico town populated by a few waitresses, gravediggers and bored teenagers. Sisters Shade and Trudi cope with the boredom in different ways: Trudi rebels against just about everything, while Shade escapes into fantasies at the movies – but both of them share a desire to get out of dodge. But even in a single stoplight town, both young women are able to find love and heartbreak by the barrel load.

Part of Nitehawk’s September SHE MADE IT brunch, midnite, and special event series.

CHEECH AND CHONG’S NEXT MOVIE: just what we all need… a really good hit. A 35mm presentation.

Jobless and penniless is the standard state of being for fully-baked L.A. duo Cheech and Chong. In Next Movie, they try their best to get back on a payroll of some kind: they write a couple of songs, they steal some gas, they even apply for unemployment; but when all that goes up in smoke, the two of them go back to doing what they do best: hustle suckers, chase skirt, and smoke grass. Who needs work anyway? Responsibility is a heavy responsibility, man.

Bigger and weirder than their first feature, Next Movie sets the dank dyad up with a host of L.A. oddballs, including Cheech’s identical cousin Red, a couple of toked out space aliens and Pee-Wee Herman himself.

Part of Nitehawk’s August WAKE AND BAKE brunch series.

Starring: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Sasha Jenson, Rory Cochrane, Milla Jovovich, Marissa Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Parker Posey

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?

Starring: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tommy “Tiny” Lister, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford

After Craig gets unceremoniously dumped from his job, he and his boy Smokey ease the pain with a little herbal therapy. The two spend the rest of that unremarkable Friday kicking it on the porch, dealing with a murderer’s row of the neighborhood’s weirdos, girls and wannabe hoods. All that changes when Smokey’s supplier rolls up demanding $200 for the weed they smoked. The two spend the rest of the day scrapping together cash by any means necessary, even if it means taking down the neighborhood tough, Deebo.

Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a special preview screening of the new film TEN THOUSAND SAINTS. Introduction by author Eleanor Henderson with directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini! Henderson will sign copies of the book following the screening in Nitehawk’s Lo-Res!

Adapted from the 2011 novel by Eleanor Henderson, Ten Thousand Saints is a coming-of-age story about three messed up teenagers in late 1980s New York City — Jude (Asa Butterfield), new to the city from Vermont, “straight-edge” musician Johnny (Emile Hirsch), and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld) — who break away from their equally messed up parents to form their own surrogate family.  

Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval — against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots — this film is a nostalgia trip to a bygone era of New York City. The official theatrical release of Ten Thousand Saints is August 14, 2015.

BOOZE AND BOOKS now offers a ticket price that includes a copy of the book, just select the option when purchasing and present your ticket to pick up in our lobby the night of the screening! Also, don’t miss the after-party in Nitehawk’s Lo-Res bar where you can get your book signed by Eleanor Henderson and an inspired Ten Thousand Saints cocktail!

Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s BOOZE AND BOOKS signature series.