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The Big Cheese

The Big Cheese follows a scrappy team of eccentric cheesemongers in the world of competitive cheesemongering as they battle personal struggles and cultural clashes while training to become world champion cheesemongers. With reputations, redemption, and a historic victory on the line, can they finally prove America belongs on the world’s biggest cheese stage? Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskowitz is attempting to change that by coaching a team of American cheesemongers to victory at the Mondial du Fromage, the “Olympics of Cheese,” in France. Team USA has never won.

With the purchase of each ticket, you also receive:
Mister Moo’s udderly insane box of delicious cheese treats and a 30 minute class on how to taste cheese like a professional before the film screening. Each box includes:

1655 Le Gruyere AOP – SWITZERLAND – Raw Cow – 12 Months: This profile of Gruyere is selected from the best producer in Switzerland boasting a dense and slightly crystalline texture, aromas of tropical fruit and warm milk and finish with savory flavors of bone broth and caramelized onions. Paired with Toffee.

Wrangeback – SWEDEN – RAW COW – Made at a manor that dates back to the year 1225, this Tomme style is endowed with a remarkably smooth and unctuous texture while delivering a flavors cultured butter, mushroom bouillon and fermented grass. Paired with bread and butter pickles.

OG Kristal – BELGIUM – PASTEURIZED COW –  A unique aged Belgian gouda recipe, this cheese gets its name from the characteristic crystalline yet smooth texture. Made with milk from a single dairy, this profile has a dominant butterscotch character balanced by a fruity undertone similar to boozy cherries. Paired with dried purple mulberries.

Shadow Blossom – GERMANY – RAW COW – Born out of a collaboration with Michelin star restaurant Schattbuch in Bavaria, this cheese is encrusted with a special blend of 5 peppercorns to provide floral, citrus notes to cut through the brown butter and raw hazelnut flavors of the cheese. Paired with coppa.

AND Nitehawk will offer curated beverage pairings for purchase along with the normal Nitehawk menu.

The Drama

Starring: Zendaya, Robert Pattinson

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.

Cannibal Mukbang

Starring: April Consalo, Nate Wise, Clay Von Carlowitz

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with The FOFIF and a story of gore and romance, CANNIBAL MUKBANG. Joining us will be director Aimee Kuge for an extended introduction and merch giveaway. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female (a non-profit org), select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen

Shy and looking for love, Mark quickly becomes smitten with the outgoing and mysterious Ash, who somehow, much to his surprise, reciprocates the attraction. But as his feelings for her intensify, so does his unexpected submersion into Ash’s biggest love: the wild world of mukbanging. And with it, lots of bloodshed.

Delving into a fascinating subculture while never losing focus on her characters, first-timer Aimee Kuge delivers a raucous and bold horror-comedy seeped in romance and gore. – Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

The Secret Agent

Starring: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Candido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. Winner of Best Director and Best Actor in Cannes.

NoBudge Live #49

NoBudge is happy to present a program of nine short films from a group of emerging indie filmmakers mostly based in New York. The lineup explores a range of styles and tones, presenting narrative dramas alongside a taste of comedy, music video, and experimental cinema. Eight of the films are NYC or Brooklyn premieres and filmmakers will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A and Afterparty.

NoBudge is an online platform spotlighting the best in low-budget indie filmmaking. “One of the best places to sample what’s happening in low-budget cinema worldwide,” says Glenn Kenny of The New York Times. Its mission is to provide a supportive home for emerging indie filmmakers working with limited resources and without major industry connections, and to be a trusted discovery platform.

Another Miracle
Director Travis Wood in person.
Not so long ago, a band named “Maurice” came upon the knowledge that a “Maurice Avenue” exists in Queens, New York.
(4 min)

Munchiez
New York Premiere
Director Sascha Lourdes Agenor in person.
A dancer and her former teacher grapple with the lasting effects of a shared trauma that distorts their relationships with food.
(15 min)

Tank Top
New York Premiere
Directors Clara Nevins and Harper Oreck in person.
Amelia’s bullied at school. Mara’s supposed to show her it gets better with age. Instead, she runs into the girl who made her life hell at thirteen.
(10 min)

4pm Bullinger Square
New York Premiere
A woman returning home to Switzerland bumps into a familiar face in a town square.
(10 min)

A Jet Black Future
New York Premiere
Director Joel Watson in person.
Afro-pocalyptic proclamations and calls for Black unity preserved in this time capsule feel evergreen, positioning Umar Olufunke as an oracle, a messianic figure, and a hero lost to time.
(6 min)

All Beauty Queens Have Broken Bones
Brooklyn Premiere
Director Max Tullio in person.
Marlo believes God has told her to win the Miss Teen Indiana Pageant—but to do so, needs to break her legs to get the pity vote.
(8 min)

Terry’s Calendar
New York Premiere
Director Christopher Connor in person.
A lonely, internet addicted neurotic orders a gimmicky calendar from TikTok hoping that it’ll inspire him to take charge of his life.
(17 min)

I Would Never Fuck You
Brooklyn Premiere
Directors Alanna Murray and Mika Lungulov-Klotz in person.
Ira prepares to confront her complicated crush by practicing with miniature figurines in a bar diorama.
(16 min)

Goodnight
Brooklyn Premiere
Director Isabel Pask in person.
A hospice nurse revisits the comfort and fear of childhood when she hires a babysitter to take care of her for the night.
(14 min)

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Juno Temple

A man claiming to be from the future takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world.

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Starring: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Frank Oz, Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee

It has been three years since the Clone Wars began. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) rescue Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) from General Grievous, the commander of the droid armies, but Grievous escapes. Suspicions are raised within the Jedi Council concerning Chancellor Palpatine, with whom Anakin has formed a bond. Asked to spy on the chancellor, and full of bitterness toward the Jedi Council, Anakin embraces the Dark Side.

Make-Out with Violence

Starring: Eric Lehning, Cody De Vos, Leah High, Brett Miller, Tia Shearer, Jordan Lehning, Josh Duensing

Make-Out with Violence is a genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. Set against the backdrop of a summer of cicadas and swimming pools, the film blends elements of up-beat teenage melodrama with the strange gravity of classic coming-of-age stories.

It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the unexplained disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy’s mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the undead Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life.

As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.

Blithe Spirit

Starring: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford

Skeptical novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) invites self-proclaimed medium Madame Arcati (Margaret Rutherford) to his home for a séance, hoping to gather material for a new book. When the hapless psychic accidentally summons the spirit of Condomine’s late wife, Elvira (Kay Hammond), his home and life are quickly turned into a shambles as his wife’s ghost torments both himself and his new bride, Ruth (Constance Cummings). David Lean directed this adaptation of Noel Coward’s hit play.

Ghost

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg

The 1990s kicked off with one of the decade’s most surprising—and enduring—hits. What began as a modest romantic fantasy, directed by the unlikely choice of Airplane! mastermind Jerry Zucker and starring hunky heartthrob Patrick Swayze, rising lead Demi Moore, and trailblazing comic force Whoopi Goldberg, became the ultimate “sleeper weeper.” Against all expectations, Ghost floated its way to box-office domination and Academy Award glory.

Swayze plays Sam Wheat, a banker deeply in love with artist Molly Jensen (Moore), until his life is cut short by betrayal. Murdered over a crooked business deal, Sam finds himself stuck between worlds—watching helplessly as danger still stalks the woman he loves. His only hope? Reluctantly teaming up with Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg), a psychic medium who suddenly discovers her powers are very real. What follows is a genre-blending marvel: part romance, part supernatural thriller, part New York City chase movie, and fully committed to big feelings.

Released at exactly the right cultural moment, Ghost struck a perfect balance between sincerity and spectacle—powered by aching performances, Goldberg’s scene-stealing (and Oscar-winning) turn, Maurice Jarre’s tear-soaked score, along with soon-to-be wedding song staple, “Unchained Melody,” and one pottery wheel that permanently altered pop culture. A high-water mark of Hollywood melodrama, Ghost remains proof that love stories—with a bit of paranormal help and sizzling leads—are Tinseltown gold.