Spoons, Toons & Booze Gets Banned
Secret Formula presents…Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoon Episodes Not Allowed on TV!
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.
Here at Secret Formula, when someone tells us not to do something we just have to do it. So we’ve put together a collection of cartoons from the 1930’s through the 1990’s that were never allowed to be shown on TV, or aren’t allowed to be shown ever again, because they’re too violent, racist, filthy, seizure inducing, devil worshiping or just downright offensive. The censors can’t keep us down and we’ll be showing them all on the big screen just for you! Come and enjoy…
– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!
– A special menu of cartoon episodes banned from TV!
– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.
– A White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs.
– 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 prizes from Nitehawk Cinema.
This January, slink into the Selwyn circa 1982 as THE DEUCE presents CAT PEOPLE, Paul Schrader’s sexed-up reboot of the 1942 Jacques Tourneur/Val Lewton classic!
Plus: Selwyn Theatre history, prizes, surprises, drink special at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by ‘The Deuce Boys’: Jeff, Andy, and Joe! Raffle Prizes (a limited edition poster and New Blu-ray collectors edition) provided by Scream Factory.
Taxi-driving, bull-raging Paul Schrader, fresh off his 1980 smash American Gigolo, directs this adaptation by Alan Ormsby, co-writer of Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (with Bob Clark). Set to the stirring synth-sounds of a Giorgio Moroder (with David Bowie!) score, Schrader’s homage/update/distillation dials up the steam and smouldering passions that burn bright through the New Orleans bayou night…
A murderous black leopard is on the prowl… soon captured by hunky zoologist John Heard – but he wants to neck with the new naive gift shop-girl, Nastassja Kinski’s ice queen Irena. A repressed love affair ensues… but when kinky bro Malcolm McDowell returns, he ruins all the fun by divulging the family secrets of their incestually cursed legacy… “Every time it happens… you tell yourself it’s love. But it isn’t. It’s blood… And death!“
Starring: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero
What could possibly be more frightening than having the ultimate child-friendly figure, Santa Claus, turn out to be a maniacal killer? Tales from the Crypt did it back in the early 1970s and the vivid image of a deranged Saint Nic has never left our collective conscience. Silent Night, Deadly Night brings Christmas horror home and down the chimney when an adult-age Billy puts on a Santa costume at his new job and starts hacking people to bits. He’s unable to escape his performing his cruel actions but, then again, witnessing your parents’ murder and then suffering abuse at the hands of a frustrated nun doesn’t bode well for normal adult behavior. Silent Night, Deadly Night is a certain kind of holiday classic – it slays.
On the occasion of the release of Spike Lee’s Old Boy, Nitehawk is honoring Park Chan-wook’s original for two midnite showings in 35mm!
Park Chan-wook’s South Korean mystery/thriller/revenge film Oldboy follows Oh Dae-Su, a business man kidnapped on the night of his young daughter’s birthday. Imprisoned for fifteen years without knowing why, he is finally inexplicably released only to discover he has five days to find his captor. Finding himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence, his own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls for an attractive sushi chef. Loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name, Oldboy is the second installment of Chan-wook’s The Vengeance Trilogy and is a film Roger Ebert claimed was a, “powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare.”
Nitehawk’s February Art Seen is a special 35mm screening of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Bluebeard that includes an introduction by Noah Isenberg in celebration of his new critical biography, Edgar G. Ulmer: a Filmmaker at the Margins. Will also include frieze video: John Akomfrah: On essays, identities and Stuart Hall playing before the film.
Every time I painted her, I had to kill her again – Gaston Morrell
Edgar G. Ulmer’s Bluebeard puts the darkness of artistic failure on murderous display. As one of the very first serial killer movies, it gleans from the notorious tales of Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard but remains, to this day, wholly unique. This rarely shown Ulmer film features John Carradine (in one of his only leading roles) as an artist who cannot resist killing every woman whose portrait he paints. With its devious art dealers, kind hearted women, and an artist all-too-familier with his limitations, Bluebeard is a beautiful noir representation of the perpetual entanglement of love, talent, obsession, and death. It also includes the most incredible puppetry presentation of Faust that, if you haven’t seen the film, will delight you.
About the frieze video John Akomfrah: On essays, identities and Stuart Hall: The award-winning filmmaker discusses the origins of the Black Audio Film collective, his recent project exploring the life and times of cultural theorist Stuart Hall and the ‘pariah space’ of the film essay on television and in the art gallery.
Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
ART SEEN is in partnership with
Featuring Absolut Vodka Cocktails.
Starring: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Sonja Smits
Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control and living televisions: the effect that technology has on our brains never been on such gross display as it is by the king of body horror, David Cronenberg, in Videodrome. Centering around the discovery of an underground program called “Videodrome” by television executive Max Renn (James Woods) for his sex-oriented network, the film chronicles his continuous obsession of finding the program’s origin. Hallucinatory and full of gore, Cronenberg viscerally displays what happens when our addictive relationship to technology shifts from online and into reality.
In the Coen Brothers’ debut feature film we learn than no matter how rich or how jealous a man is, killing his wife is never simple.
Blood Simple is a dark and suspenseful thriller that begins when Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) hires a private investigator Vissar (M. Emmet Walsh) to spy on his young cheating wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her lover Ray (John Getz). From this point, the film involves plot twists and turns, murders and mistaken deaths, misunderstanding and deceit as the characters play, and prey, upon each other. Shot in such a way that plays upon the audience’s voyeurism and assumptions, Blood Simple continues to remain fresh and innovative – a must see on the big screen.
Part of Nitehawk’s COEN BROTHERS BEFORE FARGO January series.
A highly stylized gangster genre film as can only be imagined by Joel and Ethan Coen.
Set in an urban city during the Prohibition-era 1930s in American, Miller’s Crossing centers around two rival gangs who are out to control the town’s lucrative illegal activities. As you can imagine, there’s a dame and the snitch, the laconic anti-hero and, despite numerous faults, the loveable mob leader. Miller’s Crossing is full of black humor and intense violence, producing some of the most visually stunning and entertaining film sequences in cinema. Watch as this paradoxical tale both warns and embraces the criminal underworld in such beautiful display.
Part of Nitehawk’s COEN BROTHERS BEFORE FARGO January series.
Part of our month long celebration of the Coen Brothers, Nitehawk’s January Country Brunchin’ presentation is No Country for Old Men featuring a live pre-show performance by Tatters & Rags.
Heralded as an instant classic upon release, Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men puts a very dark twist on the western genre’s “good guys versus bad guys” motif. Set in rural Texas, welder/hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds two dead drug runners and absconds with their two million dollars. Cue psychopath serial killer Anton Chigurh (played brilliantly by Javier Bardem) who deadpan kills everyone in his path to get back his money. And while this story provides the violently tense backdrop, it’s the laconic and older sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) who, overwhelmed at the impossibility of rectifying these crimes in the new landscape around him, is the film title’s referent. Let’s just say no one wins the coin toss in this scenario.
Tatters & Rags have been playing since 2008, at times being a drone post-punk folk band, other times being a sweaty, whiskey-fueled electric honky-tonk band. Fans of the band state that their eclecticism is part of their charm, and it’s always accompanied by a frenetic energy that makes them one of the most exciting live bands in New York City.
