Shot entirely on iPhone 5s, TANGERINE follows a working girl tears through Hollywood searching for the pimp who broke her heart.

It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

In SLOW WEST, a young boy traverses across the 19th-century American frontier searching for the love of his life.

Jay is a lovelorn 17-year-old Scottish aristocrat who travels to the American West at the close of the nineteenth century to track down his former lover. Confronted with the harsh realities of the frontier, he falls in with a rough and mysterious traveler named Silas (Michael Fassbender), who soon discovers that the focus of Jay’s affection has a price on her head. Together, the two navigate a vast, untamed wilderness while attempting to stay one step ahead of a bloodthirsty posse and colorful bounty hunter. Their search leads to a bloody confrontation where Jay’s romanticism is the first of many casualties. — Sundance Institute

Nitehawk’s teaming up with Allagash Brewing Company for a WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Film Feast, a night of high times, hard bodies and soft rock.

For our Wet Hot American Summer Film Feast, we have put together an unlikely team of misfits and we’ve been training like crazy all summer. Yeah, it’s a motley crew that you’d think would never be able to pull off a single dinner. We had a kooky training period where it seemed like, well, it seemed like nothing was going to go right — but guys! We’ve made it! So I say, when those anonymously evil brewers from Allagash get here, we give it our best shot, and we try to come from behind at the last minute with a weird trick dish that we made up and we win the game! Uh, Movie! What do you say?! No? Well, how about this…

The fridge humpers from the Nitehawk mess hall hooked up with Allagash Brewing Company for a multi-course beer dinner paired with scenes from David Wain’s cult comedy. Allagash owner and founder Rob Tod will be here to introduce and talk about the selection of specialty Allagash brews. So get that mustache into shape, put on your best shorty-shorts and crop tops and for God’s sake, take a shower. You’re covered in dirt.

Menu

Bonfire Drink: Allagash White with watermelon cubes

“WHAT’S YOUR GLITCH GENE?”
seared polenta cake, fois gras terrine, pistachio, blueberry gastrique
Bonfire Drink: Allagash Golden Brett

WATERVILLE, MAINE
Maine lobster roll, celery, tabasco, Old Bay potato gaufrette
Beer Pairing: Allagash Double Saison

IS THERE ANY MORE CORN?
smoked pork tenderloin, baked northern beans, peach and grain mustard vinaigrette
Beer Pairing: Allagash Farm to Face

“HIS NAME WAS UGG AND WALKED ON ALL FOURS!”
‘smores on graham cracker, marshmallow, rum chocolate sauce
Beer Pairing: Allagash Odyssey

Menu items subject to change, no substitutions.

From Olivier Assayas, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA is an exhilarating, behind-the-scenes look at art, acting and aging.

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant (Kristen Stewart) to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet (Chloë Grace Moretz) with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.

Jeff Goldblum has a small but pivotal role as the attacker that changes Charles Bronson’s life in the find ‘em and kill ‘em classic DEATH WISH.

When his wife and daughter are assaulted in their own home by a bunch of thugs (including a jughead hat wearing Jeff Goldblum), architect Paul Kersey goes on a revenge fueled killing spree that extends way beyond a personal vendetta…he wants to clean up the streets of New York! Kersey’s transformation from a mild mannered citizen to an inconsolable vigilante may be far fetched but, and this is due to Charles Bronson, this glorification of justifiable violence is a satisfying ride. Armed with a borrowed pistol, his efforts to punish the city’s criminals is appreciated by the community but we’re left to sympathize with the fact that this task has no end in sight.

Death Wish is the first of two Michael Winner films to barely feature Jeff Goldblum (as “Freak #1”); the other in our series is The Sentinel.

Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: JEFF GOLDBLUM (BARELY GOLDBLUM & FULL GOLDBLUM) brunches and midnites throughout May and June!

Starring: Cristina Raines, Ava Gardner, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Sylvia Miles, Beverly D’Angelo, Jeff Goldblum

Are you one of the legion? New York is the backdrop to many a satanic story but none, save Rosemary’s Baby, are as creepy as The Sentinel. Alison Parker is a model who, deciding to spend some time alone before making a commitment to her sketchy boyfriend, discovers that the troubling issues of her past are coming to haunt her. Long story short (filled with demonic delusions), her suicidal past has made her the next perfect candidate to guard the gateway to hell. Based on the chilling novel by Jeffrey Konvitz, this film shows how transparent the boundaries between hell and the living is…in Brooklyn!

With its incredible cast featuring Burgess Meredith, Chris Sarandon, and even Ava Gardner, you may miss our dear Jeff Goldblum in The Sentinel but he’s there in the photo shoot gone wrong and party scenes!

Jeff Goldblum self-experimentation goes awry in David Cronenberg’s version of THE FLY! A 35mm presentation!

If there was ever a film re-make to tackle for David Cronenberg, The Fly would be it. The story of an eccentric scientist who, after successfully teleporting a living creature, decides to try the experiment on himself to devastating results is ripe for the old Cronenberg body horror treatment. Nearly thirty years after the original, the fear of overreaching one’s scientific reach is made even more terrifying. In this updated version we have a single Dr. Seth Brundle (Goldblum) luring a journalistic (Earth Girls Are Easy co-star Geena Davis) into the lab for a story of a lifetime but, as we know, that damn fly had to get in the way. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The Fly is the film where we really start to know Goldblum for Goldblum or, as we like to say, when he started to go “Full Goldblum.” This screening also kicks off a small David Cronenberg midnites series in June!

Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: JEFF GOLDBLUM (BARELY GOLDBLUM & FULL GOLDBLUM) brunches and midnites throughout May and June!

In KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, a jaded Japanese woman ventures to North Dakota to find the lost case of cash from Fargo.

In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Pacific Rim) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated Office Lady whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape of a popular film she’s mistaken for a documentary, fixating on a scene where a suitcase of stolen cash is buried in the desolate, frozen landscape of North Dakota. Believing this treasure to be real, she leaves behind Tokyo and her beloved rabbit Bunzo to recover it – and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies.

Elizabeth Taylor stars as a madwoman in search of death in our special one nite 35mm screening of THE DRIVER’S SEAT – selected and introduced by BRUCE LABRUCE!

Mental instability, sexual deviance, and a whole lot of smeared makeup: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi’s low budget arty film The Driver’s Seat (aka Identikit and Psychotic) shows Elizabeth Taylor giving a whole new meaning to a woman on the edge. Her completely mad character “Lise” travels to Rome in search of men for sex and then for…stabbing her with a knife. Based on the novella by Muriel Spark, this film is an overlooked affair complete with deranged performances, police investigators and even Andy Warhol as a British lord(!). It is without a doubt one in the Liz Taylor cannon of madness to know.

Bruce LaBruce says, “The Driver’s Seat, bathed in a magical golden light, represents one of my favourite pieces of cinematography. Beyond that, the film seems totally prescient and relevant today, with its numerous cataclysmic terrorist events, and Taylor’s complaints of violation at the airport security check. It’s also one of the most complex feminist statements of the seventies, serving as a kind of allegory for a woman in search of her ultimate orgasm.” (Read his whole statement on The Driver’s Seat here).

The Art Seen screening of The Driver’s Seat is held in conjunction with the Bruce LaBruce film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (April 23–May 2, 2015). 

The unwanted will have their day. 

A seemingly harmless measure that aims to make dog-breeding more disciplined in Hungary kicks off a series of extraordinary events. Favoring pedigree and purebred dogs, the new regulation places a severe tax on those who own mixed breeds — so owners begin to dump their mongrels and shelters quickly become overcrowded.

This new set of laws has real consequences, especially for 13-year-old Lili (Zsófia Psotta), who’s already a pawn in her parent’s bitter divorce. Lili can’t understand why her dog, Hagen, is now somehow less than other dogs, nor can she comprehend why her father (Sándor Zsóstár) won’t simply pay the tax on her beloved companion. Instead, her father, in a fit of rage, abandons Hagen on the streets.