Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents DADA BRUNCH: DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY and short films featuring a live score by PARLOR WALLS!
Artist Hans Richter, a pioneer in cinematic exploration, was an important Dadaist figure in the early 20th Century. His feature film, Dreams that Money Can Buy, involves contributions by a “who’s who” of important artists of this time period: Man Ray, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, and Alexander Calder.
Made shortly after the end of the Second World War, at a time when the compulsive madness of the Dadaist and surrealist movements had been overtaken by even more darkly irrational events, the film reflects an unease amongst contemporary artists about their role in the world and their relation to the dominant art form of the time, popular cinema. Richter’s main narrative concerns a down-on-his-luck artist named Joe who discovers that he has the ability to show individuals their innermost dreams, and sets about trying to turn his talent into a profitable business (somewhere between entertainment and therapy) so that he can win back his ‘dream girl’. The rhyming voice-over and film noir stylings become rather twee (even if they are designed to parody as much as exploit the conventions of mainstream cinema), but all this is merely the framing device for the film’s real raison d’être: seven surreal sequences conceived and directed by prominent members of the avant garde as an aesthetic alternative to Hollywood’s dream machine. – Anton Bitel, Film 4 Review
Screening before Dreams that Money Can Buy will be the short films Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter, 1927) and Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggleing, 1924).
Providing the live score to Dada Brunch: Dreams that Money Can Buy is Parlor Walls, an experimental duo formed by singer/guitarist Alyse Lamb (EULA) and drummer/keyboardist Chris Mulligan.
Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA celebrates the films of ALICE GUY BLACHÉ with our special “SHE MADE IT” presentation that features a live score by REEL ORCHESTRETTE.
There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no reason why she cannot completely master every technicality of the art. – Alice Guy-Blaché, 1914
Alice Guy Blaché is cinema’s first female director who, between 1896 and 1920, wrote, produced or directed more than a thousand films in France and in the United States. A profound influence upon the evolution of cinema, she was a pioneer whose works stands alongside that of the Lumière Brothers, Georges Méliès, and Edwin S. Porter, in cinema’s rapid growth from an optical illusion to a storytelling medium to an art form. For this special Live Sound Cinema presentation, we will be screening Kino’s “Gaumont Treasures” which features her work for the French Major Film studio Gaumont (1897 – 1907) and will include hand-colored, comedies, social commentaries, early “trick” films and the 33-minute religious epic, The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906).
Reel Orchestrette (Bradford Reed & Geoff Gersh) is dedicated to the art of live musical accompaniment to silent films. Reed & Gersh have been collaborating together for almost 20 years, they formed Reel Orchestrette in 2012.
Part of Nitehawk’s September SHE MADE IT brunch, midnite, and special event series.
CHEECH AND CHONG’S NEXT MOVIE: just what we all need… a really good hit. A 35mm presentation.
Jobless and penniless is the standard state of being for fully-baked L.A. duo Cheech and Chong. In Next Movie, they try their best to get back on a payroll of some kind: they write a couple of songs, they steal some gas, they even apply for unemployment; but when all that goes up in smoke, the two of them go back to doing what they do best: hustle suckers, chase skirt, and smoke grass. Who needs work anyway? Responsibility is a heavy responsibility, man.
Bigger and weirder than their first feature, Next Movie sets the dank dyad up with a host of L.A. oddballs, including Cheech’s identical cousin Red, a couple of toked out space aliens and Pee-Wee Herman himself.
Part of Nitehawk’s August WAKE AND BAKE brunch series.
Starring: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Sasha Jenson, Rory Cochrane, Milla Jovovich, Marissa Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Parker Posey
It’s the last day of school in the summer of ’76, and the kids of Lee High school are busting loose. Like most high school kids, they’re a cliquey bunch – there’s the jocks, the burnouts, the geeks, the mean girls, the freshmen, the gearheads – but if there’s one thing that unifies the lot of them, it’s the need for some good ol’ worthwhile visceral experience. As the long Texas night settles in, the kids bounce from a busted house party, to a pool hall, to a field-kegger for the ages all while debating life’s immortal questions: Who am I? When will I get out of this podunk town? Where’s the beer?
Starring: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tommy “Tiny” Lister, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford
After Craig gets unceremoniously dumped from his job, he and his boy Smokey ease the pain with a little herbal therapy. The two spend the rest of that unremarkable Friday kicking it on the porch, dealing with a murderer’s row of the neighborhood’s weirdos, girls and wannabe hoods. All that changes when Smokey’s supplier rolls up demanding $200 for the weed they smoked. The two spend the rest of the day scrapping together cash by any means necessary, even if it means taking down the neighborhood tough, Deebo.
Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a special preview screening of the new film TEN THOUSAND SAINTS. Introduction by author Eleanor Henderson with directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini! Henderson will sign copies of the book following the screening in Nitehawk’s Lo-Res!
Adapted from the 2011 novel by Eleanor Henderson, Ten Thousand Saints is a coming-of-age story about three messed up teenagers in late 1980s New York City — Jude (Asa Butterfield), new to the city from Vermont, “straight-edge” musician Johnny (Emile Hirsch), and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld) — who break away from their equally messed up parents to form their own surrogate family.
Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval — against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots — this film is a nostalgia trip to a bygone era of New York City. The official theatrical release of Ten Thousand Saints is August 14, 2015.
BOOZE AND BOOKS now offers a ticket price that includes a copy of the book, just select the option when purchasing and present your ticket to pick up in our lobby the night of the screening! Also, don’t miss the after-party in Nitehawk’s Lo-Res bar where you can get your book signed by Eleanor Henderson and an inspired Ten Thousand Saints cocktail!
Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s BOOZE AND BOOKS signature series.
A two-hour video variety show of rare footage and pop culture commentary.
A story is only as good as its villain, so comedian Kevin Maher takes an obsessive look at some of the best and worst super villains. This two-hour multi-media show includes a virtual parade of power-mad perverts, bald villains, cartoon criminals, Satanic weirdoes, wrestling heels and more.
Kevin is joined by co-host Tenebrous Kate (creator of My Dream Date with a Villain) and a diabolical line-up of special guests, including
- Illustrator Becky Munich (“Monster Activity Book”)
- Writer Nick Nadel (truTV, IFC.com)
- Doctor Maureen Mararese
- Filmmaker Paul Murphy (Red Obsession)
- Professor Geoff Klock (“The Future of Comics, The Future of Men”)
All this, plus trivia prizes, lame super-villains and even some V.I.L.F.s
THE OVERNIGHT, a painfully funny take on thirty-something sexual frustration and parenthood.
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’ Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at the home. But as it gets later and the kids go to bed, the family “playdate” becomes increasingly more revealing and bizarre as the couples begin to open up.
A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour.
THE END OF THE TOUR tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter (and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, Infinite Jest. As the days go on, a tenuous yet intense relationship seems to develop between journalist and subject. The two men bob and weave around each other, sharing laughs and also possibly revealing hidden frailties – but it’s never clear how truthful they are being with each other. Ironically, the interview was never published, and five days of audio tapes were packed away in Lipsky’s closet.
AMY, a new documentary on the voice, the fame, and the addictions of the late Amy Winehouse.
From Senna director Asif Kapadia, Amy focuses on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died on 23 July 2011 at the age of 27, from alcohol intoxication at her home in Camden, North London. The film shows the songwriter’s cut-short life with her early years, major music career, as well as her relationships, paparazzi and downfall with drug and alcohol addiction. It features Winehouse from her early years until her untimely death. The film features fifteen voices from Winehouse’s family & close friends to tell the story and is billed as the singer in her own words. The film shows extensive unseen footage and unheard tracks Winehouse had recorded the previous years before she died.
