The Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, opens Oscar weekend at Nitehawk!

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

Nitehawk and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) present a special screening of BLUE VINYL: THE WORLD’S FIRST TOXIC COMEDY!

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present the Brooklyn Premiere of CREATIVE CONTROL with Magnolia Pictures. Q&A with writer/director Benjamin Dickinson and cast!

The setting is New York, 5 minutes in the future. The glorious technological advances and communication devices of the near future meant to increase connectivity and alleviate boredom are only increasing the anxiety level of the insecure New Yorkers who’ve inherited them. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising executive developing a high-profile marketing campaign, featuring musician/comedian Reggie Watts, for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Feeling stuck in his relationship with yoga teacher Juliette, he envies the charmed life of his best friend, fashion photographer Wim and his entrancing girlfriend Sophie  – so he uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her. Unwittingly, fantasy and reality begin to blur. As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, the friends are forced to deal with the impending collision between their public, private and imaginary lives. 

Local Color is in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival.

This baseball season, Nitehawk Cinema and BK Hot Dog Company play ball with our MAJOR LEAGUE FILM FEAST!

A former exotic dancer decides to move towards warmer climates after inheriting the Cleveland Indians when her old, rich husband passes away on their honeymoon. The only problem is that her lease won’t let her out unless there’s poor attendance to the baseball games so she concocts a brilliant plan to make the already losing team even worse so that she can move to Miami. But of course her plan turns sour when the supposed losers she brought on start on a winning streak! Major League is a good misfit-to-glory baseball story with a whole lot laughed along the way. When these three oddballs try to play hardball, the result is totally screwball!

As always with our Film Feasts, each dish will be served at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

RACHEL “CROSS HIM OFF” PHELPS
pepperoni dog, mozzarella, puff pastry, parmesan, arrabiata sauce
Drink pairing – The Cuyahoga – ?ubrówka Bison Grass Vodka, sparkling cider

PEDRO “EL CONQUISTADOR” CERRANO
pork dog, melted gruyere, dijon, ham & pickle relish, toasted ciabatta
Drink Pairing – Jobu’s Rum – serrano pepper infused Havana Club Rum, fresh lime, fresh grapefruit, Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur

JAKE “LEAGUE MINIMUM” TAYLOR
gyro dog, tzatziki, shredded romaine, diced tomatoes, warm pita
Drink Pairing – Beer Will Be Fine – Hoppin’ Frog Brewery (Akron, OH), Hoppin’ to Heaven IPA

LOU “MUD HEN” BROWN
Buffalo chicken dog, bleu cheese dressing, carrot & celery slaw, Martin’s potato roll
Drink Pairing – ‘Clubber’ Clu Haywood – Bronx Brewery Rye Pale Ale

WILD THING
caramel corn, mixed nuts, soft serve ice cream, brownie bites
Drink Pairing – I Think I Love You – Wild Turkey Bourbon, ancho chile liqueur, house-made hot cocoa, vanilla bean marshmallow

Spend some time with THE HATEFUL 8 in the place no one visits without a damn good reason!

Six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle. Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers

Controversial upon its release and now a cult favorite, Ginger Snaps is uses the monthly werewolf turn and cravings to be analogous with the strange horror of becoming a woman. Fifteen-year-old Brigitte Fitzgerald and her nearly-sixteen-year-old sister Ginger are both best friends and outcasts. Obsessed with dying and bound by a childhood pact to stay together forever, they loathe their mind-numbing existence in the suburbs of Bailey Downs. One night the two girls are heading through the woods when Ginger is savagely attacked by a wild creature and while her wounds heal, something about her is not quite right.

No werewolf program is complete without the ultimate Universal horror classic, THE WOLF MAN.

Although a smattering of werewolf movies preceded it, including 1935’s The Werewolf of London, it’s Lon Chaney’s iconic role for Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man that defined the werewolf in cinema. He plays Larry Talbot, a man visiting Wales to attend his brother’s funeral. While in town, he purchases a silver cane which he uses to kill a wolf who attacks him on the walk home one night. Turns out that it was actually a man, a gypsy’s son who was a werewolf, and now Larry is one too. And so ensues the internal struggle of man versus monster!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

A Los Angeles news anchor uncovers a colony of shapeshifting werewolves in Joe Dante’s THE HOWLING.

After news anchor Karen Dee assists in the plot to capture the man who’s been stalking her, a rather traumatizing endeavor, she is sent to a secluded countryside resort to treat her amnesia. Unfortunately this place, called “The Colony,” houses a pack of shapeshifting werewolves who are hell bent on turning Karen, her husband, and her friend into one of them. Along with another werewolf movie released the same year, An American Werewolf in London, Joe Dante’s The Howling features a graphic transformation scene, albeit much sexier, but the creatures were designed to lend a much more nonhuman aspect. Fun fact, it’s also the film that lead Dante to direct another bunch of unruly monsters…Gremlins!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

Find out how wild high school can be when you’re a TEEN WOLF!

Teen Wolf is everyone’s fun favorite teenage werewolf flick! The typical high school identity crisis is compounded for Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) when his father reveals to him that being a werewolf runs in the family. Trying to turn his difference into a positive, Scott uses it to dazzle on his school basketball team and to win the heart of a young lady. But managing teenage hormones can be difficult and, as high school complications come his way, Scott wonders if his half-human/half-werewolf pedigree makes others see him as a monster or a hero. See how being special has its issues!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

A backpacking trip through England gets hairy in John Landis’ AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.

With amazing special effects and slight comedic undertone, An American Werewolf in London is a perfect John Landis movie that nearly defies genre. It very quickly begins with a wolf attack on two American college friends, David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), who are backpacking through the UK. Jack dies while David wakes up alive in a London hospital with some mysterious marks. Haunted by those who have been killed by the werewolf and by some strange new nocturnal activities, David realizes that he is now the werewolf and the only way to end the cycle, is to end his life. Beware the Moors!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.