The Nitehawk Shorts Festival MIDNITE screening features shorts most appropriately viewed after the clock strikes twelve.

The OPENING NITE screening at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival highlights eight independent New York filmmakers.

The MUSIC DRIVEN section of the Nitehawk Shorts Festival celebrates music and film with a screening of new music videos and documentaries.

The ART SEEN section of the Nitehawk Shorts Festival explores the relationship between art and film in the cinema. 

Nitehawk spends one nite only with THE GREASY STRANGLER!

The Los Angeles-set tale follows Ronnie, a man who runs a Disco Walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also signals the appearance of an oily, slimy inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent, soon dubbed ‘The Greasy Strangler.’

It’s a Dickensian holiday with Nitehawk and NY Distilling’s FILM FEAST presentation of SCROOGED. Ugly sweater wearing is greatly encouraged!

Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol has seen numerous adaptations but none are as darkly strange as the Bill Murray helmed Scrooged. As Frank Moss, he plays a television station executive known as much for his callousness and cruelty as for his money-making programming. This Christmas he’s in for a real life lesson. On the eve (Christmas Eve) of hosting a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol, Moss is visited by three ghosts who, well, you know the story…

As always, our Film Feasts serve each dish at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

MENU

Drink – Brown Bag Scofflaw
Ragtime Rye, Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth, housemade grenadine, fresh lime, orange oil 

THE GOLF BALL 
goat cheese croquette, beet emulsion, pistachios
Drink Pairing – Eyeball Highball – NY Distilling Perry’s Tot, dry persimmon soda

Happy Holidays!

For one weekend only, Nitehawk presents brunch screenings of FIRST GIRL I LOVED, a poignant coming-of-age tale that captures all the anxiety, bravery, and heartbreak of first love.

Winner of the Best of NEXT Audience Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

On assignment for her high-school yearbook, social-misfit Anne (Dylan Gelula) charmingly hits it off with the beautiful star of the softball team, Sasha (Brianna Hildebrand). But when Anne tells her best friend Clifton (Mateo Arias) about her new crush, he reveals a hidden jealousy that threatens more than just the girls’ budding romance.

Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

Based on the short story The Greatest Gift, Frank Capra’s annual holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life has a somewhat bleak undertone that morphs into a celebration of being alive during the most wonderful time of the year. After businessman George Bailey wishes that he’s never been born, an angel is sent down to Earth to make George’s wish come true. It’s only until then that George can realize how many lives he’s changed and impacted and how different the world would be if he had never been there.

Nitehawk opens the vault of horror with a film that puts a little spirit into the holidays, the Amicus anthology TALES FROM THE CRYPT.

A 35mm presentation.

Tales From the Crypt adapts five stories from the EC archives (though, only two are actually Tales from the Crypt titles), all told through the frame of the Crypt Keeper telling five unfortunate souls their inevitable, grizzly fates. Hailing from all sorts of wretched walks of life (and, notably, all from privileged lifestyles), the film’s stars—including Joan Collins, Ian Hendry, Robin Phillips, Richard Greene and Nigel Patrick—have run-ins with a variety of ghoulies who teach them all harsh life lessons by brutally murdering them. And while the creepiest Santa imagery you’ll ever see is in the first segment, “And All Through the House”, there’s an Xmas spirit of redemption in all of them.

Read our blog post about TALES FROM THE CRYPT by clicking here!
Part of Nitehawk’s December NITEHAWK HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR series!

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad, Martin Mull

Workaholic Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wants to make things up to his son, Jamie (Jake Lloyd), and wife, Liz (Rita Wilson). He promises to get Jamie the hottest toy of the season, Turbo-Man — even though it’s Christmas Eve and the toy is practically sold out. As Langston hunts down the elusive gift, he runs into mailman Myron (Sinbad), another father on the same quest. With the clock winding down, Langston’s moral code is tested as he starts to learn the real meaning of Christmas.