Starring: Robert Englund, Johnny Depp, Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley

Wes Craven taps into our worst Freudian nightmare in A Nightmare on Elm Street by presenting a spectral murderer; a child molester killed by a lynch mob of parents who has re-entered reality by stalking their children’s unconsciousness. It’s a very visceral depiction of the most terrifying invasion attack on someone at their most vulnerable: sleeping. By becoming the high school students nightmares, Freddy symbolizes the significance of dreams and of memory as well as the thin line between reality and unreality, consequence and power. Long before Freddy’s humor become a joke in subsequent sequels, his iconic sweater, burnt face, and knives for fingers have become emblematic of a figure we would only want to encounter in the cinema, never in our dreams.

Starring: Laura Dern, Justiun Theroux, Grace Zabriskie, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton, William H. Macy, Karolina Gruszka

NEWLY REMASTERED PICTURE AND SOUNDTRACK FOR INLAND EMPIRE SUPERVISED BY DAVID LYNCH

David Lynch’s modern surrealist opus INLAND EMPIRE unfolds when an actress loses her grasp on reality as her personality begins to conflate with that of her character.

Time collapses, moves forwards and backwards in David Lynch’s Inland Empire as an actress (Nikki, played by Laura Dern) navigates the fragmentation of her existence that occurs when she delves deeper into the filming of a Polish gypsy folktale. Shot on a handheld Sony PD150 digital video recorder, Lynch’s follow up to Mulholland Drive was shot over the course of two and a half years without a formalized script and is, perhaps, the culmination of the profound lure the master of modern surrealist film has on audiences: unconventional and disorientating storytelling expressed through tantalizingly abstract imagery and bizarre symbolism. Inland Empire is an impossible film to write about or to summarize, it is only to be experienced.

ART SEEN presents the surrealist post-apocalyptic comedy THE BED SITTING ROOM with artist films by Aida Ruilova, Aldo Tambellini, and Elizabeth Price. And we’ll be having a pre-party with Brightest Young Things and complimentary Absinthe cocktails for ticket holders!

Richard Lester’s surrealist farce The Bed Sitting Room is unlike any other 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 as the end of the world can get.

Screening before The Bed Sitting Room:
Aida Ruilova holds various objects of the late Carlo Mollino (the legendary cult figure who was an architect, designer, race car driver, and photographer) in her two short films, 7 Things Carlo Mollino (2006). Once possessions, these things now function as artifacts of what remains of this enigmatic figure as housed in his home-come-museum in Turin.

Part of Aldo Tambellini’s Black Films series (1965-67), Black Trip 2 is a non-photographic film; a mixture of found imagery, sound, and artistic manipulation of film negatives. As Tambellini states it’s an, “internal probing of the violence and mystery of the American psyche seen through the eye of a black man and the Russian revolution.”

Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price’s User Group Disco features the fictional architectural building the Hall of Sculptures in which objects are presented as contemplations of consumerism, role as artifacts, the archive. They draw upon philosophical and historical materialism, surrealism and institutional critique to try and understand what objects are, and what they do.

Part of Nitehawk’s upcoming SUMMER OF SURREALISM program.
ART SEEN is in partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.

The screening is an encore presentation of the Keep Moving: Objects and Architecture in the Apocalypse at Toronto’s Power Plant Gallery.

Nitehawk Cinema and Greenport Harbor Brewing Company Present…
FILM FEAST: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.

The iconic Snake Plissken must save the President from an imprisoned, futuristic Manhattan in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.

Fight your way through a futuristic Manhattan with Nitehawk and Greenport Harbor Brewing Company’s Film Feast presentation of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. As always, the screening includes delicious beverage and food menu pairings related to the film. The best part? You’ll be served each course during the specific moments that inspired the film so you can experience edible sensations while watching all of the action unfold on-screen!

Call him “Snake.” The future is 1997 and the island of Manhattan is now a maximum security prison. Unfortunately it’s also the location where convicts took down the President of the United States’ plane. So the government sends in the “not dead” eye-patch wearing bank-robbing Snake Plissken to go in to retrieve the president and his cargo. But this mission isn’t exactly on Snake’s terms and, given the violent nature of how things run now in New York, it certainly isn’t going to be easy. Escape from New York is the quintessential dystopic view of American society’s future mixed in with that Kurt Russell charm and John Carpenter score.  

MENU ($65)

NO ESCAPE OYSTERS
Kumamoto and Otter Cove oysters, lemon, asian mignionette
Drink Pairing: Greenport Summer Ale

THE TWIN TOWER DOGS
Smoked all beef dog, pineapple relish, garlic lemon sauce, potato roll
Drink Pairing: Greenport Harbor Pale Ale

DUKE’S DEEP DISH
House made marinara, roasted wild mushrooms, italian sausage, mozzarella
Drink Pairing: Greenport Cuvaison (brewed with Merlot grapes)

OX BAKER’S FINISHER 
Peanut butter cheesecake, chocolate ganache, pretzel crust
Drink Pairing: Greenport Black Duck Porter

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SecretFormula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze After Dark

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Prime-Time, Late Night & Adult Cartoons!

Anniversary Note: Nitehawk first welcomed the SecretFormula crew for Spoons, Toons & Booze for brunch in January 2012.

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all-you-can-eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.

For June, Spoons, Toons & Booze is sneaking around after bedtime to watch the cartoons our parents wouldn’t let us watch! In addition to our normal menu ofSaturday morning (and weekday afternoon) cartoon series, we’re adding a special menu of prime time and late night cartoons from the 1970?s through present day that are all aimed at an adult and teen audience. Sarcastic high schoolers? Doughnut-loving putzes? Heavy metal-loving social delinquents? We’ve got ’em all.

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– A special menu of after dark episodes from cartoon prime-time & late night not normally shown at our brunch shows!

– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolatey cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.

– White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and the “The Complete Breakfast” with Cinnamon Toast Crunch-infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream and iced coffee!

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl!

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from SecretFormula and Nitehawk Cinema.

Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle

Meet Bonnie and Clyde, two young lovers who just happen to be criminals in a roving gang that will kill anyone who gets in their way! Based on the true life story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker’s violent bank robbing spree in the early 1930’s, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde is a more romanticized account of the string of robberies and subsequent newspaper headlines following these two archetypal lovers to their bitter end. With its trendsetting fashions, dangerously gorgeous stars and ample mix of sex and violence, the film is regarded as one of the first in the New Hollywood era and an enduring classic.

MOOD INDIGO is Michel Gondry’s love story about a woman suffering from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

The surreal and poetic tale of Colin, an idealistic and inventive young man and Chloé, a young woman who seems like the physical embodiment of the eponymous Duke Ellington tune. Their idyllic marriage is turned on its head when Chloé falls sick with a water lily growing in her lung. To pay for her medical bills in this fantasy version of Paris, Colin must go out to work in a series of increasingly absurd jobs, while around them, their apartment disintegrates and their friends, including the talented Nicolas, and Chick – a huge fan of the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre – go to pieces.

Richard Linklater’s acclaimed film BOYHOOD!

Filmed over twelve years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Eli Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason’s parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, Boyhood charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay’s Yellow to Arcade Fire’s Deep Blue. Boyhood is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. 

Part of Nitehawk’s SUMMER OF SURREALISM program, LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s HOLY MOUNTAIN with a live score by REEL ORCHESTRETTE.

Embodying the sex, drugs, spiritual awakenings and societal unrest of the late 1960s/early 1970S, Jodorowsky’s Mexican-American film Holy Mountain (La Montaña Sagrada) is a suitably bizarre and exquisitely designed trip. The quasi narrative tells of a Christ-like vagrant and six of the world’s most powerful individuals (each representing a planet in the Solar system) for a spiritual pilgrimage through a perverse and unfriendly land. The mission is to find the Holy Mountain and immortality. The film’s symbolic figures and gestures – ranging from birds flying out of bullet holes to reptiles re-enacting the Mexican conquest – make this surreal film one that existed completely outside of traditional filmmaking of the time.

Reel Orchestrette (Bradford Reed & Geoff Gersh) is dedicated to the art of live musical accompaniment to silent films. Reed & Gersh have been collaborating together for almost 20 years, they formed Reel Orchestrette in 2012. 

Part of Nitehawk’s upcoming SUMMER OF SURREALISM program. Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.