Nitehawk and Blood Sweat and Cheers throw out the first pitch of the PLAY BALL 2 series with BASEketball! Includes $1 beer specials in the downstairs bar after the screening!
Two losers in Milwaukee (Coop and Remer) become professional athletes after inventing a new sport that plays the game of basketball through the rules of baseball. Genius! But with every success story comes the cautionary tale of big business trying to take advantage. Directed by David Zucker from The Naked Gun and written by/starring South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker, you can expect all the best dirty jokes, one-liners, and balls-out humor.
As the first pitch of the BASEketball April baseball brunch series, Play Ball 2, this fun screening event includes drink specials in the after-party and baseball-themed giveaways!
In honor of Harold Ramis, Nitehawk presents one of our favorite films…STRIPES!
Wallowing in dead-end jobs and failed relationships, John Winger (Bill Murray) convinces his pal Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) into joining the army…you know, for kicks. And while they find themselves under the nose of impatient Sergeant Hulke and a platoon of misfits, they all band together and start doing pretty well. It’s not until the two friends fall for two pretty MPs, steal a military vehicle, and accidentally wind up in Soviet Territory that things start to get real…funny. Amazingly made with full cooperation with the U.S. Army, for our money, Stripes is one of the best comedies in cinema!
THE DEUCE storms the New Amsterdam for Rene Daalder’s MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, drink special at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Not what its title implies at all, Massacre at Central High (aka Blackboard Massacre) is neither a slasher spooker nor gory gross-out, but a powerful commentary on post-Vietnam, 1970s American unrest. First time director – and protégée of Russ Meyer – Rene Daalder’s unfairly neglected political allegory is now more relevant than ever.
Derrel Maury’s transfer student David gets in with the ‘in’ crowd, but learns fast that their iron fist threatens the entire student body. Soon David liberates then rallies the school’s underclass – who become an oppressive force themselves, armies of social outcasts – while David plots his revenge fantasy of revolutionary mass murder. Years ahead of the more popular Heathers (on which Central’s influence is more than palpable), Daalder’s debut foreshadows the vigilante angst of Columbine and the early-21st Century’s lost generation of mid-teen marauders.
Starring: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
Written by Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma is at his stylish gangster thriller best in the classic drug cartel film about the high and low times of Tony Montana, Scarface. In the 1980s Montana entered the United States with a flood of Cuban immigrants sent by Fidel Castro to be reunited with relatives. Obsessed with the American Dream and the notion of making it, Montana and his friend Manny slowly work their way up in Miami. Starting with small-time jobs they eventually get in with drug kingpin Frank Lopez but greed and lust prove that all good things can’t last forever. Success may come and go but one thing is for sure, you’ll remember him as… Scarface.
Starring: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham, Grace Zabriskie, William S. Burroughs
In his breakthrough film, Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy follows four drug addicted friends as they travel across the Pacific Northwest in 1971 robbing drugstores in order to fuel their habits. When the inevitable tragedy hits the group (overdose), the superstitious Bob (Matt Dillon) makes a real effort to go straight in order to avoid death or jail. But his wife’s (the stunning Kelly Lynch) and an ex-priest’s (drug hero William Burroughs) determination to continue to get high makes the living the clean life difficult. Good luck can’t run on forever and no matter how good of a con artist you are, you always pay the price.
Choose Life. A young man tries to escape the allure of drugs and drug addiction in Danny Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING.
Nearly twenty years after its release, Trainspotting hasn’t lost any of the film magic that Danny Boyle created on the big screen when he adapted Irvine Welsh’s novel about heroin addicted youth in Edinburgh, Scotland. Audiences go on a perfectly paced ride, fueled with highs and lows, following a group of lost young adults trying to escape the mundane in the mid-1990s. Welsh’s brilliant cast of characters come to life (our favorite – Sick Boy) as the story centers around Renton (played to perfection by a young and skinny Ewan McGregor) and his attempts to clean up his life. And while some of Trainspotting scenes are shocking, others are shockingly beautiful; showing the glory and inevitable downfall associated with drug addiction.
Part of Nitehawk’s midnite JUST SAY YES program.
Nitehawk presents a special One Nite Only screening of the new horror documentary KILLER LEGENDS in celebration of its upcoming March 16 premiere on the Chiller Network. Includes a Q&A with filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills moderated by Fangoria’s Sam Zimmerman!
Killer Legends is a hair-raising film that focuses on four timeless urban legends that continue to haunt the psyche of the American public. This horror documentary follows filmmakers Joshua Zeman (Cropsey) and Rachel Mills as they investigate the true crimes that may have spawned these urban legends, while exploring how these myths evolved and why we continue to believe. The documentary probes the following legends: The Candyman, The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs, The Hookman, and The Killer Clown.
Killer Legends is produced by Gulp Pictures and Storyville Entertainment in association with Gigantic Pictures. Killer Legends premieres Sunday, March 16th at 8pm ET on the Chiller Network.
In A LATE QUARTET, members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert, quite possibly their last, only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy. Inspired by and structured around Beethoven’s Opus 131 String Quartet in C-sharp minor, A Late Quartet pays homage to chamber music and the cultural world of New York.
Interwoven with known classical music, Angelo Badalamenti’s score to A Late Quartet. He says, “My goal was to write a classical-leaning score with a beautiful sadness that would work alongside the existing music in a seamless way.”
Part of Nitehawks series THE WORKS – ANGELO BADALMENTI.
FINAL WEEKS: playing at Nitehawk until March 27! Director Steve McQueen conveys the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup.
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE is based on an incredible true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender), as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) will forever alter his life.
In ENEMY, a man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.
Adam Bell is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing as both Adam and Anthony, provoking empathy as well as disapproval while embodying two distinct personas.
