Starring: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
It may not be the best known of children’s musicals but this musical fantasy film but the only feature written by Dr. Seuss is quite extraordinary. Filled with surreal landscapes and tongue-twisting rhymes, you’ll recognize the signature visual and narrative style for which Dr. Seuss is famous. The film features Young Bart Collins, lulled to sleep by the monotony of his piano lessons, dreams of a castle ruled by his piano teacher, the eccentric Dr. Teriwilliker. Dr. T is determined to prove that his “Happy Fingers Method” of teaching piano is the best method in the world. Having banished all other musical instruments to the dungeon, Dr. T lures 500 reluctant little boys to perform in a colossal concert on the grandest grand piano ever built. In his effort to escape, Bart comes in contact with some of the strangest characters imaginable – Siamese twins on roller skates, a human drum and the most memorable villain since the Grinch.
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Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmare, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, David Rudman
Broadway bound, the Muppets take Manhattan by storm in this magical musical about breaking into show business! Fresh out of college, Kermit, Fozzie and the entire cast of Kermit’s musical “Manhattan Melodies” head for the Big Apple with plans to turn their small play into a big hit! All they need now is someone to produce their show! But when no one in town will even meet with them, it’s up to Kermit to believe hard enough for all of his friends that the show WILL go on! Family entertainment has never been more fun than this comedy marking Frank Oz’s solo directorial debut.
CATFIGHT is a brutally hilarious story of two bitter rivals whose grudge match spans a lifetime.
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.
A cyborg policewoman attempts to bring down a nefarious computer hacker in the new GHOST IN THE SHELL.
The Major (Scarlett Johansson) is a special ops, one-of-a-kind, human-cyborg hybrid who leads an elite task force known as Section 9. Devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, she faces an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotics’ advancements in cyber technology.
Terrence Malick’s SONG TO SONG. A song to live to. A song to love to. A song to break up to.
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples – struggling songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Michael Fassbender) and the waitress whom he ensnares (Natalie Portman) – chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
Kristen Stewart stars as a young American personal shopper in Paris in Olivier Assayas’ supernatural thriller, PERSONAL SHOPPER.
Olivier Assayas, the internationally-acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium. Grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Paris home, determined to make contact with him.
Along with 90 cinemas across the United States, Nitehawk is screening 1984 as part of a National Event Day. A portion of ticket sales proceeds will be donated to the New York Civil Liberties Union. Big Brother is watching.
Featuring giveaways courtesy of The Strand.
Part of Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS series
Books: 1984 is the second film adaptation of the classic, and increasingly relevant, George Orwell novel.
Booze: a doublethink cocktail is in the works!
1984 features a future where absolute conformity in action, word, thought and loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. Here the world is divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments. Winston, a worker, starts an illegal love affair with Julia, and becomes the target of a brainwashing campaign to force him to conform. Michael Radford’s film captures the bleakness, anxiety and internal conflict that’s so vividly described by Orwell’s words. It creates an eerie insight into contemporary life where facts, reality and compassion are being challenged by those in power.
ABOUT THIS SCREENING: On April 4, 2017, over 90 art house movie theatres across the country in 81 cities and in 35 states, plus one in Canada, will be participating collectively in a NATIONAL EVENT DAY screening of the 80’s movie “1984” starring John Hurt, who sadly died last month. This date was chosen because it’s the day George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith begins rebelling against his oppressive government by keeping a forbidden diary. These theaters owners also strongly believe in supporting the National Endowment for the Arts and see any attempt to scuttle that program as an attack on free speech and creative expression through entertainment. This event provides a chance for communities around the country to show their unity and have their voices heard.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, you can make a donation to OutSmartNYC, a collective of industry staff, patrons, educators, and activists organizing to prevent and end sexual violence in bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. Choose the “Reserved + $10 Donation” ticket option. Nitehawk will be matching all donations.
George Miller’s stunning Mad Max: Fury Road is a rare film that places the importance of its female protagonist on greater ground than the male lead. And that it does this without questioning gender roles makes it a revolutionary feminist film of the 21st century. Set in a post-apocalyptic Australia, Furiosa (played by Charlize Theron) rebels against a tyrannical ruler by liberating a group of female prisoners and takes them in search for her woman-ruled homeland. It is a time of severe desperation for all but her fearless strength helps change their world. Simply put, Furiosa is the most important female character represented in film since Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley (Alien).
A friend with weed is a friend indeed at Nitehawk with our LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD screening for St. Patrick’s Day.
When aspiring hip-hop performers Butch (Red Grant), Postmaster P. (A.T. Montgomery) and Stray Bullet (Rashaan Nall) cross record producer Mack Daddy (Ice-T), their grudge against him leads to their own peril. After they break into Mack Daddy’s home and swipe an ancient medallion from a grotesque statue, the evil Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) is freed from his magical prison. Soon the sinister little man is on the trail of Butch, Postmaster P. and Stray Bullet, along with Mack Daddy himself.
**NEW SCREENING ADDED ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19. DON’T MISS OUT – CLICK THE DROP MENU ON THE LEFT TO BUY TICKETS!**
Nitehawk has teamed up with Nom Wah Nolita & Lagunitas to make the John Carpenter classic BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA even tastier with our special FILM FEAST presentation.
Kurt Russell stars as the wisecracking truck driver Jack Burton in John Carpenter’s ever-classic, Big Trouble in Little China. As an all-American truck driver, Burton enters into a whole different world when he picks up his pal’s Wang Chi’s fiancee from the airport. Bubbling up from the depths of Chinatown is the evil and body-less Lo Pan who must marry a girl with emerald green eyes in order to regain his form…and guess who has green eyes? Thus commences an epic mystical underworld battle between good and evil complete with some of the best lines lines in film…When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”
As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!
MENU
FIRST COURSE
Chinatown Dumplings – steamed chicken and shrimp siu mai | soy vinegar dipping sauce
Small Beginnings – Lagunitas IPA
SECOND COURSE
Pork Chop Lost In An Alley – Fried Pork Chop Sandwich – Taiwanese-style fried pork chop | pickled daikon | sweetened kewpie mayo | potato roll
Henry Swanson’s My Name, And Excitement’s My Game – Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale
THIRD COURSE
Lo Mein of Upside Down Sinner – Fiery Dank Shank Lo Mein – soy braised beef shank | chinese broccoli | pickled kohlrabi | fried shallots | scallion and cilantro
Elevator Hot Box – Lagunitas Waldo Triple IPA
FOURTH COURSE
Huge Buzz veggie broth w/ coconut ginger froth; vegan based broth | coconut ginger froth | scallion and cilantro
Time for a Little Medicine – Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Wheat Ale
FIFTH COURSE
Green Eyes – Matcha Lotus Sesame Balls – fried matcha sesame balls | sweetened lotus paste filling
Things Go Sour For Lo Pan – Lagunitas Aunt Sally Sour Ale
