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The Muppets

Starring: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper

Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, is on vacation in Los Angeles with his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and Gary’s girlfriend, Mary (Amy Adams). They discover that greedy Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) plans to raze Muppet Studios and drill for oil on the spot. Desperate to save the Muppets’ former stomping grounds, the three friends join forces with Kermit to reunite Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the rest of the gang to hold a telethon to raise the $10 million they need to save the studio .

Ice Age

Starring: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black, Cedric The Entertainer, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader

Twenty-thousand years ago, Earth is a wondrous, prehistoric world filled with great danger, not the least of which is the beginning of the Ice Age. To avoid a really bad frostbite, the planet’s majestic creatures – and a few small, slothful ones – begin migrating south . The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, known as Scrat.

Monk in Pieces

Meredith Monk – composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist – is one of the great artistic pioneers of our time, yet her profound cultural influence is largely unrecognized. With Monk’s music at its center, and featuring interviews with Björk and David Byrne, Monk in Pieces is a mosaic that mirrors the structure of Monk’s own work, and illuminates her wildly original vocabulary of sound and imagery.

As a female artist in the male-dominated downtown arts scene of the 1960s and ‘70s, Monk had to fight for recognition and resources. Early reviews in the New York Times were vicious and sexist: “A disgrace to the name of dancing,” wrote one critic,, and “so earnestly strange in a talented little-girl way,” wrote another. Yet as her celebrated contemporary, Philip Glass, says, “she, among all of us, was – and still is – the uniquely gifted one.”

In the film’s final chapters, Monk faces mortality. We see her warily entrust her masterpiece, ATLAS, to director Yuval Sharon and singer Joanna Lynn-Jacobs for a new production at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. For 60 years, Monk has directed and performed in all of her music theater works; now she must learn to let go. What will happen to such singular work after she is gone?

9 to 5

Starring: Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman

F2L Network, a community effort working to end the incarceration of Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color who are queer, trans, and Two-Spirit in NY. To make an additional $10 donation to F2L Network, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

We’ve all had our share of bad bosses and this is what makes it so much fun to watch three of our favorite women – Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin – get revenge on their sexist and egotistical boss! 9 to 5 may be famous for its theme song, but it’s the brilliant combination of humor mixed with tackling real gender issues that makes it a classic. Watch these ladies get stoned, fantasize about killing their boss, and then actually eek out a plan to make him pay (S&M outfit anyone)?

While you may remember 9 to 5 as that funny harmless comedy from the 1980s, it’s actually bitingly devious which, of course, always makes for the very best time! Plus did we mention… Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin?!

How the book giveaway works: Purchase your tickets in advance (at least two days before the showtime), and you will be entered into a random lottery drawing. If your name is drawn, we will email you to notify you that you can pick up your book before the screening.

A Few Good Men

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak

Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a military lawyer defending two U.S. Marines charged with killing a fellow Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Although Kaffee is known for seeking plea bargains, a fellow lawyer, Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore), convinces him that the accused marines were most likely carrying out an order from a commanding officer. Kaffee takes a risk by calling Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) to the stand in an effort to uncover the conspiracy.

Hank’s Saloon

For over 100 years, Hank’s Saloon existed, under various names and owners, as a beloved local Brooklyn dive bar.

In 2018, after nearly a decade of speculation and financial uncertainty, the rickety little building on the corner of Third Avenue and Atlantic announced that they would finally be closing their doors for good.

This feature documentary follows Hank’s—along with its colorful staff and rotating cast of oddball patrons—through its stressful and celebratory final months. It also takes a deep-dive into the fascinating history of the building, from its roots as a working-class Irish bar, through its various roles as Prohibition-era speakeasy, Indigenous ironworker hangout, and safe haven in an era of danger and decay, up to its final state as a quintessential “old man bar” turned legendary indie music venue, all pitted against the backdrop of a rapidly changing New York.

Einsturzende Neubauten: Liebeslieder

“Destruction was, for us, never destruction in the sense of an act of violence. It was always about making room.” – Blixa Bargeld

Pre-screening DJ in Lo-Res from 7-9

An essential text for anyone with a love for the avant-garde. The explosive soundscapes of industrial music titans Einstürzende Neubauten first shook Berlin, then the whole world to its core in the Eighties. In LIEBESLIEDER, co-directors Klaus Maeck and Johanna Schenkel wield a fractured feast of killer Neubauten performances from Euro television: ones that highlight the group’s cinematic presence, wild handmade instruments and totally unique style. If you’re at all curious about industrial or noise music in general, this sweaty documentary is unmissable. If you’re already a Neubauten fan, this humanizing portrait of their first decade will give you a fresh take on the band.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Starring: Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise

Music starts at 7p, the movie at 7:30p!

The Chicken Ranch is as clean, moral, and wholesome as a whorehouse can get but that’s still not good enough for a meddling TV preacher man in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a musical-comedy starring two of our favorites: Dolly Parton as Miss Mona Stangley and Burt Reynolds as Lanville County Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd. These friends-with-benefits must fight to let the good times roll at the popular Chicken Ranch when television personality Melvin P. Thorpe goes on a consumer watchdog rampage to expose the illegal activities. Come watch the Chicken Ranchers since, dance, and sleep their way to continued success and into your hearts on the big screen!

How the book giveaway works: Purchase your tickets in advance (at least two days before the showtime), and you will be entered into a random lottery drawing. If your name is drawn, we will email you to notify you that you can pick up your book before the screening.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, Paul Langton, and Orangey – as Butch the cat (uncredited!)

Kick off February with The Deuce and the 1957 sci-fi masterpiece THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN… at our very first “Sunday Brunch” screening at Nitehawk Prospect Park!! A glorious 35mm print on the even more glorious, giant screen of Theater 1! AND: we’re thrilled to welcome our special guest-curator, Foster Hirsch, writer of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties! Stay after the flick to meet Foster and purchase a signed copy in Trees Lounge, with the Maestro Jeff spinning ’50s rock and roll…!

An aimless afternoon afloat turns atrocious when sunbaked Robert ‘Scott’ Carey (Grant Williams), aboard his brother’s yacht, heads straight into an ominous nuclear mist… Six months later, Scott begins downsizing a few belt notches, baffling his doctors and petrifying his wife Louise (Randy Stuart). Soon Scott is a national curiosity, residing in the family dollhouse, watching the now preposterously out-sized world continue to turn “without” him… and after a harrowing battle with their pet cat “Butch,” Scott plummets into the cellar, a literal underworld of catastrophic, tyrannical terror – and a test of Scott’s intellect and will to survive.

In the words of film historian, professor, and prolific author Foster Hirsch, from his Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties!: “Atomic beasts tend to be oversized, but in THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, horror is located in the opposite direction, as an unstoppable movement towards invisibility … On his own in the basement, [Scott] becomes a heroic survivor, growing smaller as his spirit expands … The unfaltering direction by underrated Jack Arnold, the pitch-perfect performances of nonstars Grant Williams and Randy Stuart as Mr. and Mrs. America–if there is a more accurate depiction of an everyday 1950s couple, I don’t know of it–and Richard Matheson’s multileveled screenplay transform a film with an exploitation title into a penetrating and poetic portrait of America at midcentury.”

Originally opening in February of 1957, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN shocked audiences of all ages at Times Square’s Globe Theatre – now the Lunt-Fontanne – and The Deuce will shock YOU!! At Nitehawk Prospect Park!!

Live Sound Cinema: A Night of Surrealism

Join us as for a journey through the dreamscape as The Flushing Remonstrance bring three seminal surrealist films to life with all-new live scores.

Un Chien Andalou (“An Andalusian Dog”) is Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s 1929 groundbreaking depiction of fetish, religion, and obsessive sexuality that forever changed the aesthetics of film.

Man Ray’s Le Retour à la Raison (“The Return to Reason”) (1923) pioneered abstract expressionism in film with its scenes of Paris by night, shapes, geometry, and the female form.

Jean Cocteau’s 1932 Le Sang d’un Poete (“The Blood of a Poet”) creates a haunting and mesmerizing collage of allegory and symbolism, indelible dream imagery, and abstract effects that explore poetry, artistic creation, haunted memory, death, and rebirth.