Starring: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger
Supposed true story about George and Kathleen Lutz whose dream house turns into a nightmare. James Brolin and Margot Kidder are the unsuspecting new tenants of a house whose previous occupants had been murdered in their sleep. The Lutzes and their children are menaced by the lingering evil in this frightening ghost story.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children–Chas, Richie, and Margot–they were a family of geniuses and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have had a preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman grant of fifty thousand dollars in the ninth grade. Richie was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father’s fault. The tale follows the family’s sudden and unexpected reunion one recent winter.
Starring: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Billie Lourd, Skyler Gisondo
The story follows Dever and Feldstein’s characters, two academic superstars and best friends who, on the eve of their high school graduation, suddenly realize that they should have worked less and played more. Determined never to fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, John Leguizamo, Bridget Moynahan, Thomas Sadoski, Ruby Rose, Lance Reddick
John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2 screen the same weekend that John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum opens in a special preview of our upcoming July series KEANU: THE WORKS.
In this next chapter following the 2014 hit, legendary hitman John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen
John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2 screen the same weekend that John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum opens in a special preview of our upcoming July series KEANU: THE WORKS.
With the untimely death of his beloved wife still bitter in his mouth, John Wick, the expert former assassin, receives one final gift from her–a precious keepsake to help John find a new meaning in life now that she is gone. But when the arrogant Russian mob prince, Iosef Tarasov, and his men pay Wick a rather unwelcome visit to rob him of his prized 1969 Mustang and his wife’s present, the legendary hitman will be forced to unearth his meticulously concealed identity. Blind with revenge, John will immediately unleash a carefully orchestrated maelstrom of destruction against the sophisticated kingpin, Viggo Tarasov, and his family, who are fully aware of his lethal capacity. Now, only blood can quench the boogeyman’s thirst for retribution.
Starring: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Gemma Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh
Rocketman is an epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years.
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Cathy Moriarty, Bud Cort, Eddie Cibrian, RuPaul
Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn’t that crazy about him. So she’s stunned when her parents decide she’s gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation. While there, Megan meets a rebellious and unashamed teen lesbian, Graham (Clea DuVall). Though Megan still feels confused, she starts to have feelings for Graham.
Starring: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman
Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he’ll latch on to some rich dowager. New York, however, is not as hospitable as he imagined, and Joe soon finds himself living in an abandoned building with a Dickensian layabout named Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). The two form a rough alliance, and together they kick-start Joe’s hustling career just as Ratso’s health begins to deteriorate.
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson
Kick off Pride with The Future of Film is Female and a special screening of Lisa Cholodenko’s lesbian heartbreak classic HIGH ART. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Lisa Cholodenko’s feature film debut centers of the lives of Syd (Radha Mitchell), a twentysomething professional living with her boyfriend, and downstairs neighbors Lucy (Ally Sheedy), an adrift photographer and Greta (Patricia Clarkson), a former Rainer Werner Fassbender superstar whose life now revolves around heroin. Syd and Greta’s relationship is transformative for them both, and Cholodenko’s tender filmmaking offers heartwrenching, heady intimacy. Winner of the 1998 Sundance screenwriting award.
Nitehawk Cinema partners up with NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ Film & Media Arts Organization, to present a special brunch 35mm screening of rarely seen iconic film from 2000. The screening includes an introduction by Nick McCarthy (Director of Programming, NewFest) and each audience member will receive a complimentary copy of the book, PRIDE: Fifty Years of Parades and Protests, and buttons courtesy Abrams Books.
$15 voucher saves your seat and comes with a free book!
About the film: Celebrated for its candid and realistic depiction of African-American gay men, the groundbreaking Punks premiered at Sundance in 2000 and won awards on the film festival circuit before becoming mostly undistributed and unavailable to see anywhere. Focusing on four friends navigating the dating world to find their mythical Mr. Rights, this vivacious debut film from writer-director Patrik-Ian Polk is an outrageously spirited ensemble comedy with verve and wit. Unprecedented in the way it captures black gay life and romance, Punks also explores universal aspects of friendship in dynamic and surprising ways.
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ Film and Media Arts Organization, is dedicated to bringing together filmmakers and audiences to build a community that passionately supports queer cinema and storytelling. NewFest give voice and visibility to all facets of the LGBTQ experience by presenting year-round screenings and events that include New York’s annual LGBTQ Film Festival every October, which began in 1988.
