Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present a CATFIGHT, a brutally hilarious story of two bitter rivals whose grudge match spans a lifetime.
Q&A with writer-director Onur Tukel.
Two former college friends, who now find themselves in very different walks of life, meet up at a fancy cocktail party: Veronica (Sandra Oh) has become the entitled, wine-loving wife of a rich businessman, while Ashley (Anne Heche), along with her lover Lisa (Alicia Silverstone), struggles to make ends meet as an artist. As the two women reconnect, long-buried hostilities, jealousy, and anger explode into a vicious, bloody fight that leaves both of them battered and bruised – and ready for more.
Nitehawk presents a special one night screening of Asghar Farhadi’s Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, THE SALESMAN.
We stand in solidarity with Asghar Farhadi, who has chosen not to attend the Academy Awards ceremony this year due to Trump’s travel ban for those from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen). As part, Nitehawk will be donating a portion of each ticket sold to the ACLU. Read Farhadi’s statement here.
About The Salesman: After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. However, once relocated, a sudden eruption of violence linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life, creating a simmering tension between husband and wife.
Nitehawk presents a special screening of the documentary on graffiti, politics and lifestyle, STYLE WARS 2.
Q&A with Co-Producer of Style Wars, Henry Chalfant, Artist from Style Wars 2, Devi, and Co-Director of Style Wars 2, Amos.
Style Wars is a legendary documentary, filmed in 1983, which helped the graffiti movement from New York to spread around the world. 30 years later, Veli and Amos, two Style Wars fans from Europe, trip through today’s graffiti and street art scene. The journey takes them from Europe to New York and ends in the Middle East. Style Wars 2 features encounters with graffiti artists and presents different artistic views. Along the way, Veli and Amos also happen to attend boxing fights in New York and visit hair dressers in the West Bank. Even though the movie’s main focus is on graffiti, it also raises topics like art, politics and lifestyle.
Nitehawk’s COUNTRY BRUNCHIN’ goes to a Florida prison with an egg-eating rebel in COOL HAND LUKE. The screening features a live pre-show serenade by SASHA PAPERNIK’S GLASS CARNIVAL!
We all need a little non-conformity these days. Based on Donn Pearce’s 1965 novel, the film version of Cool Hand Luke stars a ruggedly handsome Paul Newman as a Luke Jackson, a prisoner who challenges the system in a Florida jail. Like is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he’s arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. Throughout his institutional tenure, he rages against authority, repeatedly escapes prison, and becomes the bad figure who the guards must make an example of to the other inmates. The screening celebrates fifty years of the film that was a “touchstone of an era.”
Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, is the feature debut of Cybill Sheperd, includes the songs of Hank Williams, and is one of the best movies in the 1970s. Based on Larry McMurtry’s semi-autobiographical novel and set in the early 1950s, Sonny Crawford is coming of age in the desolate town of Anarene, Texas. Sonny’s closest friends are his high school buddy Duane Jackson and his surrogate father Sam the Lion, whose tough-minded integrity stands in contrast to everyone around him. Eager to experiment with sex, Sony begins an affair with his coach’s wife. However, his understanding of the world is thrown into question when Sam the Lion suddenly dies, and his relationship with the coach’s wife proves emotionally complicated.
Save a village in Mexico with Nitehawk’s Country Brunchin’ screening of country classic, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. The screening features a live pre-show serenade by Tatters and Rags.
Seven gunfighters (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughnn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter) are hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits and their leader. With time running out before the annual raid arrives, the heroic seven must prepare the villagers for battle and help them find the courage to take back their town or die trying. The Magnificent Seven is an Americanized western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai that features spectacular gun battles, epic-sized heroes and an all-star cast.
It creeps, and leaps and glides and slides across the floor… *pop* Beware of THE BLOB!
In his debut role as a leading man, a 28-going-on-40 Steve McQueen stars as a teenager trying to make it on Lover’s Lane with his girlfriend (Aneta Corsaut) when a shooting star ruins everything and unleashes a man eating blob on their small Pennsylvania town. After they witness the alien amoeba attack an old man, the two run to the cops who write them off as teenage pranksters, giving the Blob more than enough time to make its way into town and eat a movie theater full of screaming teenagers. Trapped in a nearby diner, Steve hatches a plan to save the town from the Blob… but will it work?
Part of Nitehawk’s March LARGE AND IN CHARGE screening series.
Go big or go extinct! Prepare yourself for Guillermo Del Toro’s dazzling smash fest PACIFIC RIM.
When a massive earthquake cracks open the seafloor, gigantic monsters called Kaiju come crawling from the depths and lay waste to cities and armies across the globe. On the brink of destruction, humanity joins forces and creates the Jaeger Corps, an international army of massive nuclear-powered robots controlled by two psychically linked pilots to take the fight to the Kaiju. Cocky with their technical marvels, mankind begins treating Kaiju fighting like a global sport – until, suddenly, a new breed of larger, even more dangerous Kaiju, start ripping through Jaegers like wet paper dolls. Teetering on the brink of defeat, the last remaining Jaeger pilots rally for one last strike at the source of the Kaiju: the swirling vortex on the ocean floor.
Pacific Rim is as close to live-action anime you can get — gloriously melodramatic, gigantic in scope and spectacularly designed. Aussie star Charlie Hunnam’s American accent may be pretty terrible, but the film’s diverse cast and global stakes are an early example of Hollywood’s pivot towards international dollars in the 21st century.
Part of Nitehawk’s March LARGE AND IN CHARGE screening series.
The most exciting original motion picture event of all time: KING KONG.
In Dino De Laurentiis’s mega-hyped 1976 Kong remake, a team of mustache twirling oil reps (Led by slimeball extraordinaire Charles Grodin) heads off to an unexplored island in the Indian Ocean on the hunt for a massive wellspring of untapped oil. What they discover goes beyond their imagination: Kong, the King of Skull Island and the Eighth Wonder of the World. Unaccustomed to guests, the natives kidnap Dwan (Jessica Lange), an actress whom the crew rescued from a life raft, and offer her as sacrifice to Kong. While crew photographer & paleontologist Jack (Jeff Bridges) leads a rescue mission, the oil gang, with dollar signs in their eyes, plots to steal away the ape. After all, imagine the dough that a giant ape can rake in on Broadway — what could possibly go wrong?
Part of Nitehawk’s March LARGE AND IN CHARGE screening series.
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, Christopher McDonald, James Gammon
Brad Bird’s classic tale of a child who befriends something scary that the government wants to kill. Taking place at the height of Cold War hostilities, Hogarth, a nine-year-old Mainer hopped up on comic books & cornball sci-fi, investigates a meteor that crashed into a nearby forest. Eager to find an invader from Mars, or at least a space rock, Hogarth discovers a massive iron robot with no memory of its purpose or its origin — naturally, they become fast friends. Trouble arises, though, when a paranoid government agent rides into town determined to find and destroy the Giant.
