Double-dating proves to be more than just sex in BOOTY CALL.
Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on their lives. – Jamie Foxx
He’s now an Academy Award Winner but between Ray and In Living Color, Jamie Foxx starred in the outrageous 1990s comedy about the sexes, Booty Call! More of a date night from hell than a traditional booty call, the film centers around two newish lovebirds Rushton and Nikki. After weeks of dating, the two are starting to fall in love and on the one night Rushton is preparing to seal the deal, she insists on a double date. Sexually frustrated, he invites his rude, sex-obsessed boy Bunz to tag along to keep her friend Lysty busy. It ends up being a hilarious disaster of a date complete with a madcap search for condoms.
Part of Nitehawk’s summer program COMEDIANS IN FILM (Late Nite).
An elegant New York socialite comes undone in San Francisco after her life falls to pieces.
This show is not about laughter. It’s about comedy. You don’t have to laugh to enjoy it. – Andrew Dice Clay
Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that’s offensive to another person you just caused a discussion. You just forced them to have to think. – Louis CK
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine shows the dire consequences that can result when people avert their eyes from reality and the truth they don’t want to see. When Jasmine’s (brilliantly played by Cate Blanchett) marriage falls apart, she moves into her estranged sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull her life, and her mind, back together. And while what is happening to her echoes the real-life Bernie Madoff scandal, the real problem for Jasmine is that she’s the unwitting instrument of her own downfall. One of Allen’s best.
Part of Nitehawk’s summer program COMEDIANS IN FILM (The Serious Comedian).
Three Detroit auto-workers push back against a corrupt union in the fiery BLUE COLLAR.
Richard Pryor has a role that makes use of the wit and fury that distinguish his straight comedy routines.”- Vincent Canby, N.Y. Times
Caught between management mistreatment and union exploitation, a trio of Detroit auto-workers run out of hope that their hard work will reap any sort of reward. Disillusioned and buried in debt, the three concoct a robbery plot that yields a light amount of cash but a wealth of dirt on their union. Under pressure from corrupt union toughs, their co-workers and federal investigators their friendship begins ripping at the seams. While it’s an uncharacteristically dramatic role for Pryor, his performance captures the darker moments of his act that express the frustration and gravity that comes from working through the struggle.
Part of Nitehawk’s summer program COMEDIANS IN FILM (Stand Up/Stand Up Companion).
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Bronson Pinchot, Paul Reiser
When two California toughs kill his childhood friend, Detroit detective Axel Foley ducks out of town on “vacation” to Beverly Hills to sniff out the conspiracy behind his buddy’s death. His unauthorized investigation leaves local PD heated, and puts him on the radar of a shady art dealer who doesn’t appreciate Foley snooping around. Originally intended for Sylvester Stallone of all people – producers gave Murphy the roll after Stallone’s blood-guts-and-explosions spin on the material racked up too large a bill. Good thing beacuse Beverly Hills Cop made Murphy a crossover sensation, and is the perfect vehicle for the comic’s quick wit, fast delivery and cocksure swagger.
Join Nitehawk and The Workers Unite Film Festival for a special screening of the Academy Award nominated documentary feature, CARTEL LAND.
Featuring a Q&A with film editor and co-producer Bradley Ross, Assistant Editor on location Andre Arias, Rolling Stone writer Damon Tabor (author of the article “Border of Madness”), and Antonio Tizapa (father of Jorge Antonio Tizapa, one of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico). In partnership with the Workers Unite Film Festival.
Cartel Land is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels. In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as “El Doctor,” leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona’s Altar Valley – a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley – Tim “Nailer” Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border. The cartels each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed. Cartel Land is a chilling, visceral meditation on the breakdown of order and the blurry line between good and evil.
The Workers Unite Film Festival is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity every May in NYC. Now in its fifth year, the Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and social justice.
Starring: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper
The nude, strangled body of a teenaged girl lies on the edge of the river. Her murderer is her boyfriend, Daniel Roebuck. All the kids in Roebuck’s dismal, dead-end town know who committed the murder. Trouble is, no one bothers to turn Roebuck in; some of the teens don’t know how to react to the crime, while others, strung out on drugs and booze, just don’t give a damn. A study of contemporary alienation, River’s Edge was based on a real-life incident that occurred in Milpitas, California, in 1981. That same year, Neal Jimenez wrote his screenplay for River’s Edge, but was not able to finance the project until 1987. Except for Dennis Hopper, cast as a holdover from the sixties who hobbles about on one leg and makes love to a blow-up doll, the cast was largely comprised of unknowns, many of whom would definitely be heard from in the future.
Horror Boobs and Nitehawk present midnite screenings of AMERICA’S DEADLIEST HOME VIDEO.
The story of Doug (Danny Bonaduce), a home video enthusiast who hits the road with his video camera after catching his wife having an affair. While making a video journal of his travels, he inadvertently records the Clint Dryer gang – three felons on the lam – pushing their getaway car over a cliff. The gang abducts him and forces him to videotape their crime spree as they rob and murder their way from town to town. The gang’s leader, Clint (Mick Wynhoff), becomes more daring and sadistic for the camera, and a dangerous relationship forms between his girlfriend, Gloria (Melora Walters) and Doug. Seen entirely through the eyes of Doug’s video camera, America’s Deadliest Home Video draws the viewer into a dark world of violence and terror.
Starring: Paul Reubens, E.G. Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Tony Bill, Cassandra Peterson
Part of our recipe book series NITEHAWK CINEMA PRESENTS. Show your ticket at the bar after the movie to buy a copy of the book for only $20!
Pee-wee Herman has lost his only love, his red bicycle, and heads out on the biggest adventure this side of the Alamo to get it back. Along the way, he meets the most amazing people (from Francophile Simone to a tequila-loving motorcycle gang) but ultimately discovers what he likes most is right at home: Dotty and, of course, his bike. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is based on Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief and marks Tim Burton’s feature directorial debut. It’s also quite possibly one of the best movies to come out of the 20th century. Classic.
Spend Mother’s Day camping with Vorhees family in Sean Cunningham’s FRIDAY THE 13TH.
Things don’t go so well for the reopening of Camp Crystal Lake as the new counsellors are stalked and slashed…but by whom? As the site for a young boy’s drowning many years earlier, someone or something is none-too-pleased that a new batch of sexually crazed young adults who will be the caretakers of young children. Stemming from tropes established in Italian giallo films like anonymous killer-point-of-view stabs and punishment for sexual activities, Friday the 13th produces one of the most iconic “Final Girls” in horror (Alice Hardy) and has enduringly made teenage activities a frightening cautionary tale. No real spoilers from us so you’ll have to wait until the end to discover why its maternal instincts are series worthy.
Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a very special screening of HIGH-RISE with the director Ben Wheatley!
Based on J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel, High-Rise shows Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte, his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder, a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen; and Mr. Royal, the enigmatic architect who designed the building. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
On Demand, Amazon Video and on iTunes April 28. In theatres May 13.
