The feature documentary SOUR GRAPES, co-directed by Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas, pops the cork on a the world’s greatest wine fraud.

Q&A with director and Cara Cusumano (Director of Programming, Tribeca Film Festival) to also include a special wine tasting presentation.

With youthful charisma and pockets full of cash, Rudy Kurniawan earns the reputation of a wine savant, ingratiating himself with some of high society’s most fervent connoisseurs. His Gatsbyesque path collides with US billionaire Bill Koch, and Laurent Ponsot, a Burgundian winemaker, resulting in a humorous and suspenseful investigation into one of the most ingenious cons of our time. 

Part of Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR series, in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival.

In partnership with UNAIDS, Nitehawk Cinema presents a special screening of DALLAS BUYERS CLUB in recognition of World AIDS Day.

Featuring a post-screening Q&A with Jeremiah Johnson, HIV Prevention Research & Policy Coordinator for Treatment Action Group.

Best Picture Academy Award nominee, Dallas Buyers Club, centers on a son of Texas, Ron Woodroof, an electrician and rodeo cowboy. In 1985, he is well into an unexamined existence with a devil-may-care lifestyle. Suddenly, Ron is blindsided by being diagnosed as H.I.V.-positive and given 30 days to live. Yet he will not, and does not, accept a death sentence. His crash course of research reveals a lack of approved treatments and medications in the U.S., so Ron crosses the border into Mexico. With a growing community of friends and clients, Ron fights for dignity, education, and acceptance. In the years following his diagnosis, the embattled Lone Star loner lives life to the fullest like never before.

The MATINEE TWO section at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival features eight short films that deal with the power of relationships (of all sorts).

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.