Starring: Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth, Jonathan Hyde, David Alan Grier
When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn’t realize its unimaginable powers, until he is magically transported before the startled eyes of his friend, Sarah, into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game’s spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan (Robin Williams) reunites with Sarah (Hunt)and together with Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) tries to outwit the game’s powerful forces in this imaginative adventure that combines breathtaking special effects with an enchanting mixture of comedy, magic and thrills.
Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a screening of DARJEELING LIMITED celebrating the publication of The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads (Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson). Introduction by Matt Zoller Seitz!
Books: Abrams Books will giveaway a few copies of the book during the screening and will sell all of the books in The Wes Anderson Collection in our lobby.
Booze: Inspired cocktail is in the works!
Estranged brothers Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) reunite for a train trip across India. The siblings have not spoken in over a year, ever since their father passed away. Francis is recovering from a motorcycle accident, Peter cannot cope with his wife’s pregnancy, and Jack cannot get over his ex-lover. The brothers fall into old patterns of behavior as Francis reveals the real reason for the reunion: to visit their mother in a Himalayan convent.
ARTIE LANGE joins us for a special 35mm screening of the great revenge-for-hire film DIRTY WORK.
Artie Lange will be in conversation with Mike Sacks following the screening.
I ain’t apologizing for anything, especially if it’s a joke. – Artie Lange
Directed by Bob Saget, co-written and starring Norm MacDonald, Dirty Work is the funniest buddy comedy about two losers opening a highly successful business specializing in revenge. Two friends, Sam and Mitch, need to find $50,000 to pay for Sam’s dad’s heart surgery fast! When they’re fired for getting revenge on their abusive theater-owner boss, they have a great money-making idea: a revenge-for-hire business. The friends are soon successful but not all their clients are good customers. When real estate developer Travis Cole tricks them into vandalizing a building that isn’t his, Sam and Mitch concoct their best revenge plan yet.
Part of Nitehawk’s summer program COMEDIANS IN FILM.
Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph
An important example of innovative and daring filmmaking, Eraserhead remains brilliant to some, indecipherable to others, and always, it seems, provocative. – Senses of Cinema
David Lynch’s Eraserhead is a dream of dark and troubling things telling of a man named Henry, who lives surrounded by an industrial otherworld, who is thrust into a horrific nightmare when his wife gives birth to a deformed baby. The product of an earlier fling, Henry did the right thing by marrying Mary X but their lizard-like newborn won’t stop wailing and other disturbing figures, like the disfigured woman who lives inside the radiator, inhabit his new apartment and further complicate this already bizarre life. Lynch’s visionary debut feature was trashed by critics, but soon became a smash on the midnight movie circuit. It’s one not to miss.
Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents Philippe Garrel early and most incendiary films, LE REVELATEUR, with a live score by harpist Mary Lattimore and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Zeigler.
The performance is in celebration of the duo’s new limited LP release on Thrill Jockey featuring music inspired by the film.
For those who favor the hallucinatory and the abstract, start revving your psychedelic engines for a dose of French master Philippe Garrel’s potent, shimmering physicality. Tragically unknown in the U.S. despite a significant global following, Garrel has charted an unlikely course from avant-garde provocateur to festival favorite in a revelatory four-decade career. Le Révélateur — made during Garrel’s youthful “Zanzibar Collective” period spent on the Paris ‘68 frontlines — “is a fractured and elliptical, but instinctive, elemental, and haunting rumination on the process of awakening, maturation, psychological trauma, and transformation of childhood memory” (Strictly Film School)
Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler weave an elaborate web of picturesque synth-scapes for Le Révélateur that will be featured on new album released by Thrill Jockey this July. The duo debuted the score live at the renowned Marfa Ballroom and have since performed to sold-out audiences at the Getty Museum and Cinefamily in Los Angeles, Constellation Chicago, and at the International House in the duo’s hometown of Philadelphia. Le Révélateur was recorded by Zeigler (War on Drugs, Kurt Vile) at his studio, Uniform Recording.
A lady never reveals her tactics in Whit Stillman’s LOVE & FRIENDSHIP.
Love & Friendship is an adaptation of young Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan, believed to have been written in the mid 1790s but revised up to a fair copy prepared in 1805 and finally published by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, in 1871.
Set in the 1790s, earlier than most Austen tales, the film concerns beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon who has come to Churchill, the estate of her in-laws, to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst ensconced there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and for her daughter, Frederica.
Nitehawk’s LITTLE BOOKWORMS series presents the magical musical fable of THE LITTLE PRINCE.
The Little Prince was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1943.
The beloved classic children’s book, The Little Prince, has seen several film adaptations but none are quite as special as this one from 1974. Starring Richard Kiley as the pilot stranded in the desert with a little prince from another planet, the dance stylings of Bob Fosse as the snake, and the greatness of Gene Wilder as the fox, the magic of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella comes to beautiful life. The two discuss the prince’s adventures in planet hopping but it’s his time on Earth, with the pilot, the fox, and the snake that he learns the secrets of the importance of life. A favorite for kids of all ages.
Part of Nitehawk’s ongoing LITTLE BOOKWORMS series that shows classic film adaptations of classic children’s books.
COMEDIANS IN FILM takes a look at the king of comedy, Don Rickles, in John Landis’ documentary MR. WARMTH: THE DON RICKLES PROJECT.
Every night when I go out on stage, there’s always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I’m always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I’m not going to offend! – Don Rickles
Renowned director John Landis offers up a portrait of legendary comedian Don Rickles (in an Emmy-winning role) by blending clips of Rickles’s appearances at the Dean Martin celebrity roasts and on “The Tonight Show” with footage from his stand-up routine and interviews. A slew of celebrities — including Martin Scorsese, Christopher Guest, Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman, Sidney Poitier and Clint Eastwood — offer their insights on the man known as “Mr. Warmth.”
Part of Nitehawk’s summer program COMEDIANS IN FILM.
Comedian Kevin Maher presents a two-hour video variety show all about death.
Anniversary Note: Kevin first Geeked Out at Nitehawk in October 2014 with zombies!
Comedian Kevin Maher celebrates his one-year anniversary at Nitehawk Cinema with an evening dedicated to dying. This two-hour video-variety show features guests sharing memories of the scenes that most disturbed them. Plus murder motifs, death-as-a-character, Hollywood’s love affair with the dying girl, and a collection of unforgettable “dummy deaths” (ranging from haunting to hilarious.) Featuring clips from 80s action movies to romantic dramadies, cult horror and dark comedies.
With special guests:
Doug Bost & Adam Bernstein (from the “Grown Ass Men” podcast)
Travis Alexandra Boatright (award-winning costume designer)
Caroline Fulford (host, “Loose Canon” podcast)
Matt Glasson (editor, filmmaker)
Al Kievsky (Man of Mystery)
Kseniya Yarosh (“I Love Bad Movies” zine, “Bonnie & Maude” podcast)
As part of Nitehawk’s 5th anniversary celebration, LIVE SOUND CINEMA is proud to present Sergei Eisenstein’s BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with an original live score performed by MORRICONE YOUTH.
Anniversary Note: Morricone Youth first performed at Nitehawk for a LIVE SOUND CINEMA screening of Jean Rollin’s Fascination in June 2012. Battleship Potempkin marks their 15th performance here.
Sergio Eisenstein’s Battleship Potempkin, centered by revolutionary rhythmic editing, is now considered one of the greatest films ever made. After the success of Strike, he was commissioned by the Soviet Government to make a film commemorating the 1905 Odessa uprising and so he focused on the loyal crew of the battleship Potemkin. The film shows the sailors stage a violent mutiny seizing control of the ship to raise the red flag of revolution as they are fed up with the deplorable conditions and extreme cruelties of their officer. This, in turn, sparks a citizens’ revolt under the boot heels of the Czarist Cossack regime. When the ruthless White Russian cavalry arrive to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, one of the most famous and quoted film sequences in cinema history is born.
Morricone Youth is a New York City band formed in 1999 dedicated to performing and recording old film and television soundtrack and library production music.
NOTE: This will be an experimental soundtrack featuring a new original score. The original soundtrack or audio will not be played.
