Steven Soderbergh, Singani 63, and Nitehawk present a very special evening of film, HAYWIRE, and inspired cocktails.

Director Steven Soderbergh will be in conversation with Aaron Goldfarb (novelist and contributor to Esquire and The Daily Beast) following the screening.

Featuring an inspired Singani cocktail menu:

• Essential Element – Singani 63, demerara sugar, Angostura bitters, orange peel
• Government Issue – Singani 63, Dolin Blanc, Campari, Pur Blood Orange Liqueur, fresh grapefruit
• Last Word On The Rocks – Singani 63, Green Chartreuse, Luxardo Maraschino, fresh lime, tiki bitters

Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is a highly trained operative for a government security contractor. Her missions take her to the world’s most dangerous areas. After Mallory successfully frees a hostage journalist, she’s betrayed and left for dead by someone in her own agency. Knowing her survival depends on learning the truth behind the double-cross, Mallory uses her black-ops training to set a trap. But when things go awry, Mallory knows she’ll die unless she can turn the tables on her adversary.

The legendary Singani 63: National Spirit of Bolivia, imported by devotee filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, has a history dating back 500 years but has never made it stateside until now. Singani is made exclusively from the Muscat of Alexandria grapes. Coming from vineyards that average 6,000 feet in elevation, picked at optimal ripeness, the spirit is meticulously distilled to preserve the intense aromatic notes and a remarkably smooth finish. Salut!

Nitehawk’s ART SEEN welcomes writer/director Li Lu as she brings her debut feature THERE IS A NEW WORLD SOMEWHERE for a New York City premiere. 

Supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Out of the Binders, and Film Fatales .

Come experience an award winning film that critics call “indie, off-the-beaten path, and mesmerizing” and “cinema, by and about women, that strives to capture a new look on the American South.” Q&A with writer/director Li Lu.

There is a New World Somewhere is a coming of age story about self-revelation and the solitary struggle of an artistic soul. An unsuccessful artist, Sylvia escapes New York City and problems of mind and money to attend her friend’s wedding in her Texas hometown. In Austin, Sylvia meets Esteban, an electrifying stranger. Instantly, they are enamored with each other. He proposes a road trip back to New York and dares her to leave town with him. Eager for a careless adventure, Sylvia is forced to trust her heart, even if it leads her down dark and mysterious paths. It is the debut feature film by writer/director Li Lu.

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.

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Morfydd Clark, Stephen Fry

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.